mysterious australia newsletter - february 2012

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AUSTRALIAAUSTRALIAAUSTRALIAAUSTRALIAVol. 2, Issue No 02

FEBRUARY,2012

INSIDE:

IN SEARCH OFTASMANIAN GLOBSTERS.TASMANIAS CRETACEOUS DINOSAURS.NEW URU DISCOVERIES FROM THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.MEDIAEVAL EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE OF THE GREAT

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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club. The Club meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month, at the Gilroy residence,

12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 1pm onwards.

We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Streetwhere there is safer parking.

IN SEARCH OFTASMANIAN GLOBSTERS.Rex Gilroy.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

[The following article includes a section from Chapter Fourteen of our book Out of the Dreamtime The Search forAustralasias Unknown Animals [URU Publications 2006] concerning the mysterious globsters that have beenwashed up on the wild Tasmanian west coast, five in all over the past 30years... ]

During our recent Tasmanian investigations Heather and I visited the principal sites connected withthe most famous globster find of all and photograph them. It remains an incr3edible fact that first

discovered in mid-July 1960, it took scientists until early March 1962 to get their act together and visit theisolated beach where the half buried smelly mass was lying!During mid-July 1960 Tasmanias coast was hit by the worst storm ever recorded there.

A few weeks later, in August, Mr Ben Fenton, a property owner of Temma on the north-west coast,was mustering cattle near a beach 2 miles north of the Interview River, together with two drovers, Jack Booteand Ray Anthony.

It was here on the beach that they saw, and closely examined, a large, roughly circular body, that ofsome dead sea creature quite unknown to them, and which was covered with short soft fur.

The men only spoke of their find casually to a few friends, as they feared wide-scale ridicule from thecommunity. Mr Fenton continued to revisit the beach from time to time, during which he observed that thebody had been removed by the action of rough seas and re-deposited further along the beach. By this means

the mystery corpse was gradually moved further along the coast, each time becoming either partially orcompletely buried in the sand. It eventually reached a point 14 miles up the coast south of Sandy Cape.News of the mystery corpse gradually filtered into Hobart, the states capital, and eventually reached

Mr G.C. Cramp, a local naturalist and businessman, who in turn put the matter before a number of HobartMuseum officials in February 1962, and it was agreed by all that someone should undertake a proper study ofthe mystery creature. Mr Cramp subsequently organised and financed an aerial search for it in early March.

Having located the furry mass, a ground party, led by Mr B.C. Mollison, a member of the staff of theCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [CSIRO] at Hobart, set out on March 8th.Mr Mollison was described by the press as a zoological student and not a science graduate but experiencedin some forms of zoology. He was accompanied by Max Bennett, also of the CSIRO, L.E. Wall, and J.A.Lewis, vice president and treasurer respectively of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club. The party had a hard

time reaching the site, as they came up against flooded rivers, and due to the denseness of the coastalwilderness, they were forced to trudge many miles through loose sand along the beach to reach themonster [as the Hobart Press labelled it].

The press as usual was scant on details, but later reported that Mr Mollison had returned from hissecond trip to inspect the monster on March 11th.This statement was of little significance although the

Rex and Hea th e r G i l r oy , Aus t ra l i a s t op UFOand Unexp la in ed Mys t e r i e s Re s ea r c h t eam.

Pho to c op y r i gh t Rex Gi l r oy 2012.


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incredible series of subsidiary events that followed upon his return is at the same time both interesting andamazing; and amazing for the sheer incompetence demonstrated by supposed scientific experts!

First there is the description of the monstrous mass that Mr Mollison apparently presented to theHobart Museum, and whose, reconstruction of the creature was published in the city press, accompanied by the categoricalstatement that these impressions of the sea monster were drawn by a museum expert. Allowing for the usualincompetent reporting of the media, there remain some very important points that have never been made

clear. For one thing, did Mollison really provide the creatures description attributed to him? As anunqualified, virtual amateur zoologist [but no disgrace in that! RG], it seems unlikely that Government Museumscientists would accept the report of an amateur and are more likely to have had one drawn up by a qualifiedscientist. And, would these scientists have provided the media with such a crude throw-away sketch of themystery marine giant? From the authors own experience, wherein his own description of the Yowie wasdeliberately distorted into a virtual cartoon character, by tongue-in-cheek sensation-seeking journalists yearsago, I believe that we can place the sketches origin on the table of a newspaper artist!

The report of the creatures description appears the work of a scientist, rather than that of a moredown-to-earth amateur, and Mollison was of course not a fully-qualified scientist. He was only quoted asmaking very mild statements of a purely conjectural nature; ie One tends always to reject the fact that an

animal is unknown. One is always seeking some explanation, and you try to add up everything, but thisone does not add up yetor againThere are only two possibilities - that the animal is unknown, or that itis the remnant of a known animal.He also stated that, while they were at the site, Mr Boote had marked outwhat he considered the original outline and the party dug down on these marks and found decayed flesh.

This suggests that the description originally came from Jack Boote. Mollison finally concluded that the animalwas not a giant ray but probably a ray-like animal.

Scientists were soon speculating upon the identity of the mysterious beach blob, coming up withthe usual explanations such as, part of a beached whale, or a shark, even that it might be a giant squid, evenperhaps a giant ray.

Then on March 19th Senator John Gorton, future Prime Minister, but at that time Minister of theCommonwealth of Australia, responsible for the work of the CSIRO, stated in Parliament in a written report

that: In laymans language, and allowing for scientific caution, this report means that your monster is alarge lump of decomposing blubber, probably torn off a whale.Gortons report, based upon the [cover-up] explanation of the scientists, did nothing to officially

bury the matter.For one thing, Mollison had stated that the creature was not a whale. He also stated that he had

retrieved samples of tissue to prove it. Even while he was making this statement, the scientists were, asreported in a March 12th 1962 press release declaring that so far no zoologist has looked at it and denyingthat any tissue samples had been brought back for study. This appears strange in view of the fact thatMollisons samples were at that time being analysed in Sydney and were fully reported upon by CSIROscientists.

Finally, after questions had been raised in Parliament, and negotiations concluded between the

CSIRO, Royal Australian Navy and Museum officials, a scientific team departed from Hobart for the north-west coast, where they rented a helicopter and flew to the site. The group comprised of Mr A.M. Olsen,Marine Biologist and Senior Research Officer of the Fisheries Division of the CSIRO in Hobart. Mr J.H.Calaby, Senior Mammalogist of the Wildlife Division of the CSIRO in Canberra, Dr. E.R. Guiler, SeniorLecturer in Zoology at the University of Tasmania, and two technicians. They picked up Dr.W.Bryden,Director of the Tasmanian Museum, Hobart in the field.

Although they announced that they would spend two weeks at the site, they actually left after just 24hours and were back in Hobart by March 18th. Once there, in great secrecy, they prepared the report that

John Gorton, [who was at that time also in charge of Naval Affairs for the Federal Government], was to readin Parliament.

The report prepared by these experts, after their 24 hour length rush job examination stated:

The exposed portion of the material was 6ft long and 2ft wide.

It projected a few inches above the sand surface.


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This rotting blob on the beach, or globster as some locals were calling it, was in fact not the onlyinstance of such a creature having been washed up on the Tasmanian west coast; as some residents of isolatedbeachfront areas have pointed out that mystery hairy monsters have been found by people on and offhereabouts since pioneering days in the 19th century. In fact, five such creatures had been found over the last30 years and been overlooked by the authorities and media alike.

There was also one important question not answered in the quoted scientific report. Namely, was themystery globster ever covered with hair of any kind or fur?

Only mammals possess true hair. This is distinguishable from hair-like structures such as bristles, andno known mammal, or any part of an aquatic mammal of the size of this globster is covered with hair. One

whale species is known to possess six bristles on its chin and the young of the Grey Whale has rows of sparsebristles along the back of its head and forebody, therefore the globster, whatever it was, was certainly noportion of a whale.

A reporter who reached the site after the departure of the scientists later wrote: Near a large excavationwere two bulky pieces of flesh, each a few feet in diameter, and a smaller piece. At that time the excavation would be no morethan a few feet deep.

Either this, or another journalist later unearthed some interesting information concerning thescientific manner in which two large portions of flesh had been removed. This had been accomplished bysuspending them outside the helicopter due to the stench of the rotting remains.

He spoke of the veil of secrecy cast over the scientists work on the beach, and subsequent method ofstorage of the specimen material afterwards at Zeehan. It appears that the specimens were removed from theairstrip to the yard of the Central Hotel, in the Hydro-Electric Commission utility truck under much secrecy.Once in the hotel grounds they were off-loaded in the yard and the trucks tray backed over them. Thespecimens, which had nearly filled the tray, were then left there on the ground until loaded onto another truckfor the trip to Hobart on Saturday 17th March.

Journalists must have wondered how these scientists could possibly issue a full, final report on thistissue material by the evening of the following day. After all, it took the truck all of Saturday to reach Hobart,and we have been led to believe that the entire resources of the CSIRO had been making futile attempts toidentify the tissue samples for almost a week! It appears obvious that, either they made the identification onthe beach, or else they had the blob identified all along!

So, was the mystery creature ever 20ft in diameter as first described? Or was it merely a mass ofrotting whale blubber about 10 feet in length as some people suggest? Did it ever possess hair or fur, or did itonly give the appearance of this?

And why the official cover-up?The whole affair undoubtedly stinks to high heaven. And those incompetent bumbling scientists who

examined and removed tissue samples from the blob on the beach couldnt even agree on that! A group ofcompetent amateur zoologists would have done a better job of identifying this blob on the beach. Otherblobs have been found on Tasmanias north-west coast since the 1960 incident, yet for some reason they

were not investigated by any scientists. No doubt there will be more blobs washed ashore in the future tokeep this mystery alive.

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This impression of the Globster appeared in the Hobart Mercury newspaper in March 1962.Drawn by D.C.Mollinson.


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A photograph of the actual Globster carcaseinspected by the CSIRO scientific team. Note

removed section taken for study.Photo Hobart Mercury, Tasmania, March 1962,

The 1960 Globster discovery was not the first of its kind onTasmanias north-west coast. There are earlier stories among the localsof similar huge, smelly blobs having been washed up on the coast, and

there have been others found hereabouts since the 1960 Ben FentonGlobster discovery. This sketch was copied by Rex Gilroy from an

original, done by a farmer who found one of this size [note human figuresize comparison] on an isolated north-west coast beach about 1989.

Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

An isolated beach near the location of the August1960discovery by property owner Ben Fenton, of the massivedead sea creature nicknamed the Globster. Photo copyright

Rex Gilroy 2012.

On Monday 14thNovember 2011 while investigating an isolatedbeach south of the 1960 Globster find, Rex Gilroy spotted a largeobject lying on sand close to the surf in the distance. Any hopes thatthe object might be another marooned Globster were however soon

dashed, as he got closer he could see it was a dead whale! The picturehowever illustrates how Ben Fenton first spotted the mystery body at a

distance lying on the beach. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Central Hotel at Zeehan, to which the smellymass was conveyed by helicopter.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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search of the area for any further tracks that might be there. Heather and I left intending to return here againon our next Tasmanian search. Obviously the scientific community is in error. If they leave their offices andrough it out there in the wild they will find dinosaur fossils for themselves. As dinosaurs existed on mainland

Australia it is obvious that their remains await discovery in Tasmania, which of course was formerly part ofthe mainland.

The Gilroys eagerly await their next search in Tasmania when we will turn up further impossiblefossils!

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A Foriestier Peninsula scene. Do the Cretaceous rocks ofthe foreshores hide evidence of Tasmanian dinosaurs?


The Forestier Peninsula Theropod dinosaur track. It measures 45cmlong by 33cm wide across the toes, 21cm wide across the heel and is 7cm

deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Granville Harbour. The Cretaceous rock

shoals of its foreshores may contain more dinosaurtracks than the two found here by Rex Gilroy.



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NEW URU DISCOVERIES FROM THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.Rex Gilroy.


Recent wet weather on the Blue Mountains has exposed many hitherto long buried rocks on the surface.Braving the weather recently to take my dog Andy for a walk, I have made finds of very ancient Uruan stoneimages at sites outside Wentworth Falls and Leura, pointing to long-vanished temples or other structures inthe vicinity.

Beginning on Friday 3rd February, on a clifftop track on Kings Tableland south of Wentworth Fallstownship, I picked up a very crude, deteriorated ironstone image. Later cleaning revealed two eyes and a nose[bridge missing] below which was still a well-defined mouth. On the back [flat surface] was an inscription.

The image measures 16cm tall by 8.5cm wide and 8cm deep.The inscription was later translated to read:

Ga, God of Festivities, decrees the playing of scared music at night. Drink the water of love. Praise the Phallus. Allpeople dance the Moon Dance

Bad weather prevented a search for any nearby remains of a temple or shrine but this will beattempted soon.

The second track discovered, the larger of the two, may have beenmade by a larger reptile. It measures 60cm long by 67cm wideacross the toes and 47cm wide across the heel and is 4cm deep.


The two tracks are spaced 1.67 metres apart [note rulerbetween them. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The first Granville Harbour track discovered. It measured46cm long by 59cm wide across the toes and 37cm wide

across the heel, being 2.5cm deep.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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On Monday 6th February I carried out a search in thick scrub north of Leura township during a breakin the west weather on a hunch that there was other Uruan cultural evidence to be found in this particulararea [long suspected by me].

Heather waited in the car on a bush road while I searched some 2 kilometres or so into dense gumscrub. I failed locate any ruins, but scattered about atop a gully I picked up four ironstone relics ofunmistakable Uruan origin. The first was an image of a female deity, Aria, holding in both hands the glyph forLand of Uru. Upon her back were glyphs stating: Aria, Goddess of the Arians*, Goddess servant of the Sun, Nim, who

shines on the land of the Arians. [*also spelt as Aryans].The image was measured as 15cm tall by 8.5cm wide and 7cm deep.The next relic found amid forest stubble was the head of the misshapen headed Ha, God of Fear.

This small image bore glyphs stating: Ha, God of Fear and of the lightning that brings it.Ha measured 8.7cm tall by 7cm wide and 7.7cm deep.

*****The third relic uncovered from the forest floor was a slab whose front and back flat surfaces bore, on

one side a map on reaching a temple [possibly already known to me about a kilometre distant] and on theother, glyphs. The translations of both lengthy messages were as follows:

Side One: At the Temple of the sun [Nim] the God is observed traversing the heavens

with his rising and erection on high. Rejoice, play musical instrumentsand all give ear, at the open door of the Temple of Mysteries.

Side Two: The Temple of Light is reached by following the eastern path to the summit.[The Map] Here in the enclosure stands the Temple, where resides the Oracle of

Knowledge. Here observe the East to West voyage by day of Nim the Sun.

The relic measured 20cm tall by 10cm wide and 4cm deep.The last relic uncovered was the image of a boat, possibly depicting the boat of Nimin which the one

Sun-worship belief dating to earliest Uruan times, Nim daily voyaged across the heavens from east to west..The boat, ironstone encrusted by mudstone to which small gravels had become mineralised, measured

17.8cm long by 7.5cm wide and 3.6cm deep.I had barely recorded this last relic and placed it in my backpack, than I noticed the weather changing.

I lost no time returning to Heather and we drove out of the bush just ahead of a downpour.I have no doubts that further discoveries of old Uru still await discovery thereabouts.

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The image of Ga, God of Festivities, foundat a clifftop location outside Wentworth allson Friday 3rdFebruary, 2012. The image

measures 16cm tall by 8.5cm wide and 8cmdeep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The Ga image, rear surface bearing inscription.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Top. The Ga image, right profile.

Right. The Ga image left profile.Photo co ri ht Rex Gilro 2012.

The image of the Goddess Aria [aka Ariana], found at aLeura area bushland locality on Monday 6thFebruary, 2012.In her hands she holds the Uruan glyph for Land of Ara.

The image is 15cm tall by 8.5cm wide and 7cm deep.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The back of the image bears an inscription.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The top of the Aria head contains a small circular1cm deep hollow in which to burn incense.


The second Leura relic was this smal l, misshapen head of Ha, theUruan God of Fear. It measures 8.7cm tall by 7cm wide and

7.7cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The left profile of the Ha image bears glyphs.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The right profile of the Ha imagebearing a single glyph.



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MEDIAEVAL EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE OF THEGREAT SOUTH LAND.Rex Gilroy.


[Composed from notes for the forthcoming book: On Shores of Misty Lands Mediaeval European Knowledge ofAustralia by Rex and Heather Gilroy,copyright Rex Gilroy URU Publications 2012.]

Writings of the earlier Greek and Roman historians and philosophers, encouraged by chroniclers ofMediaeval Europe to believe in the existence of a vast southern continent, the Lost Southern Paradise of

Mankind, said to lie in the southern most region of the world and which possessed unimaginable wealth.

In fact such a land had been know to the ancient civilisations of the Nile and Near East whosemineral-seeking expeditions had long before colonised and mined this land in Bronze-Age times [2000-1400BC. To the Egyptians it was known as Kenti-Amenti, the fabled Land of the Godsand land of the origin oftheir ancestors. The ancient Persians called it Sveta-Dwipa, the Sacred Land. To the ancient Greeks it wasknown as Ausio and also Megagea of Big Land.

The third relic uncovered at the Leura site was this map stone.Side one shows a lengthy message. The stone measures 20cm tall

by 10cmm wide and 4cm deep.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The back of the stone bears the map to a temple withglyphs. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The small Nim Sun-Boat of ironstone encrusted withgravels, recovered at the Leura bushland site. It measures

17.8cm long by 7.5cm wide and 3.6cm deep.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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To the Greeks of Homers time [600 BC] Ausio was identified with the fabled land of Colchiswherein was to be found the Golden Fleece, symbolic of all the wealth in the world.

In The Life of Apollonius of Tyanaby Flavius Philostratus of Athens [175-249 AD] there is a revealingpassage which points to world geographical knowledge in antiquity.

If the land be considered in relation to the entire mass of water, we can show that the earth is the lesser of the two.Unless the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and other hadnot crossed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, how else could Philostratus have known that the oceans cover

the greater part of the earths surface?Besides the world we inhabit there may be one or more other worlds peopled by beings different from ourselves, word

Strabo [1st century BC].*****

There are many ancient quotes on the existence of Australia pre-dating the onset of the Dark Ages,which saw the suppression of knowledge by the Roman Catholic church, yet in the course of the Dark Ages,thence the Middle Age which led to the Renaissance and the re-birth of knowledge throughout Europe, those

who dig deep enough can find that writings on the mysterious southern continent still persisted.The Dark Ages had descended upon Europe during the 6th and 7th centuries AD, with the collapse of

the Roman Empire. The Middle Ages cover the period from around 1000 AD to 1450 by the beginning ofthis age the Vikings had already begun making their presence known, raiding the coasts of mainland Europe

and the British Isles.It was during the 11th century that European merchants were returning home with accounts of other

lands lying to the south of India and Lanka [ie Sri Lanka] and trade voyages from the Red Sea byadventurous traders aided by Arab seafarers whose ancestors had known of lands such as Malaya and Java,saw valuable spices, silks and other goods brought back to Europe along with tales of voyages to the lost

paradise of the southand the mineral and gemstone wealth to be had there.The exploits of Marco Polo [1254-1324] are frequently quoted by conservative historians as the limit

of European voyages at that time, yet written evidence survives to dispute this belief.*****

A Mediaeval tradition of Cornwall, England speaks ofMen with Tails [ie kangaroos] the traditionbeing thought to have been introduced by clergy returning from travels to Australasian lands, although they

might also have seen kangaroos in the private menageries of Chinese or Indian royalty or wealthy merchants.Tailed peoplewho carried their young in pouches attached to their bodies for safety and who moved

by leaps and bounds, were also described by Venantius Fortunatus of Breton [530-603 AD], who wrote of theTerrestrial [ie southern] Paradise as a land of flowers. And besides people with tailsan un-named scholar ofMalmsbury, England in the 8th century AD, describes stars in the southern hemisphere.

And then there was the large fleet of ships led by the Welsh knight, Sir Owain Miles in 1155, from theRed Sea coast to India, thence southward on a trading and riches-seeking expedition which saw him,according to legend, land on the shores of the Southern Paradise land. In the course of his exploits here, hisships penetrated what appears to have been the now long vanished inland sea, from where he and hisfollowers, in the course of their search for precious metals and gemstones, reach a great rock of many coloursrising up out of the landscape. Ayers Rock? Before turning back, Sir Owains fleet sails into apparent eastern

Australian waters on a southward voyage which eventually brings them into colder climes where they seeislands of floating glass. Increasing cold forces them to return northward. After many adventures in themysterious Southern Paradisethey return to Britain.

*****During the 12th century, one Pierre of Provence, a wealthy traveller, made a voyage to Alexandria,

stopping along the way at the kingdom of Naples. From Alexandria he journeyed overland to the Red Seacoast, where he was taken prisoner by Arabs, who placed him on a dhow and sailed off with him on a trading

voyage. As a slave he was rather well treated.The dhow crossed the Indian Ocean, probably bound for India or Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. The ship

landed off an island, possibly Ceylon, which Pierre described as a land of bright flowers, blossoms andwoods.

The Arabs put to sea again. All this time Pierre had assisted with the search for gold and othertreasures. For some months the ship voyaged from island to island as the crew searches for valuables, headingdeeper into southern waters.

Eventually the Arabs reached a strange land where they decided to maroon Pierre. As the dhow sailedoff over the horizon, he was left to ponder his fate seated on the sand of a beach.


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For many weeks he was forced to live off shellfish, berries and whatever else he could find to eat. Hewas feverish by the time another ship appeared offshore and rescued him.

On his way home he informed the King and Queen of Naples of his adventures, which he thenrepeated to many more people upon his return to France.

Thus a Frenchman, some time during the 12th century, if this tale be true, had sat on the sand of anAustralian beach.

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Of all the ancient European seafaring peoples to voyage Australian and indeed west Pacific waters,the Celts stand out, with a history of cross-ocean expeditions that began in the days of the Pharaohs,

vanishing as the Mediaeval Age began to give way to the Renaissance.Around 1500 BC Iberian Celts joined the Phoenicians on joint trade and mineral-seeking expeditions,

at first for the Pharaohs of Egypt, and alter for themselves [the full story is found in Pyramids of Destiny The Lost Pacific Colonies of the Bronze-Age God-Kings URU Publications 2009]. These Bronze-Ageexpeditions led to the colonisation of Australia and certain other west pacific Islands, including New Zealandin their search for gold, tin, copper and other riches.

Celto-Phoenician rock inscriptions, particularly Celtic ogham is found carved upon megalithicstanding stones, stone circles and other structures from island Southeast Asia to Australia and tis near-islandneighbours. In Australia, coastal rivers were employed to sail deep into the interior in the search for riches

and large colonies were established by mixed Celto-Phoenician groups or Celts alone.The former inland sea was employed to sail deep into Australias heart, while the Murray River, once

discovered was used to sail north into the Darling River, the Murray offshoot, the Murrumbidgee, and theDarling offshoots, the Macquarie, Namoi-Peel and Gwydir River systems beings used to penetrate into theinterior of Central Western New South Wales, where vast rich amounts of precious metals and gemstones

were obtained and colonies established which would eventually become large kingdoms with their own rulingclasses.

This explains the discoveries of Celtic and Phoenician as well as Egyptian rock scripts, relics and ruinsfound today in the Australian interior. At one Central Australian locality in March 2011 Rex Gilroydiscovered megalithic circle and temple remains extending over a considerable area dating back at least 3,000years, which included pyramidal structures, a crumbling temple with the enormous weathered granite head of

the Celtic Sun-God, Bel. The area is rich in minerals.Colonies had to be fed, so vast areas were set aside for farming crops and breeding stock [shipped in

from Southeast Asia]. Evidence of this is found near Sydney, at areas on the Georges andHawkesbury/Nepean River districts, where crops were once grown to feed large Celto-Phoenician villages, asevidenced today by the discovery of rock inscriptions on the Georges River and Nepean Rivers, whereengraved messages tell of farming operations thereabouts going back 3,000 years.

*****Evidence is accumulating to show that Swedish Vikings in the 12 th century voyaged beyond their

Persian Gulf-India/Malaya trade route to Java and Australia-New Zealand waters. [see Pyramids in thePacific The Unwritten History of Australia by Rex Gilroy URU Publications, 2000]. As our January 2012Mysterious Australia Newsletter reveals, there is a ghostly trail of rock inscriptions and other evidence,

stretching from the Russian Rivers/Persian Gulf from where in their longships adventurous Scandinavianssailed to India, Lanka [Ceylon], Malaya and Java, e en as far as Australias east coast and New Zealand. TheNovember 2011 finds of Rex and Heather Gilroy of an ancient Scandinavian settlement in the Mole Creekdistrict of Tasmanias north-western region suggests that others must exist somewhere on the Australian eastcoast. Remains of Swedish Viking settlement have already been uncovered by the Gilroys in the Bay ofIslands and Milford region of New Zealand.

Some years before his death in 1131, the Swedish writer-explorer, Saemund the Learned, wrote a sageof an expedition he had made to the Southern Paradise and the frozen hell of Niflheim beyond, via the sevenislands. The identity of these seven islands is debatable, but were surely islands of Southeast Asia.

Saemund describes how he sailed around these coasts before eventually sightings the SouthernParadise. It is not all lush forests as described by other ancient European writers, but a land of heat and flies!

He and his fellow Vikings see giant birds moving about the landscape [Emus] and leaping animals which weresurely kangaroos.

They meet up with fierce, stone-throwing black men and women, against whom they have to defendthemselves. Where Saemunds ships have landed is debatable, but it may have been in our far north.

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aftermath of a gory initiation ceremony of the black men their faces bloody, their bodies bleeding and bloody runescut on their breast. A hot, dry region, it was, he said, a land where the waters do not flow.

The Norsemen return to their ships and sail on in search of Niflheim. Where is Saemundsexpeditions now? Perhaps they have penetrated Torres Strait and ventured down our east cost. Putting intoshore along the way to settle for a time and grow crops to replenish their food supplies, as was the custom ofancient mariners on such long voyages. Women would also have accompanied the expedition.

Eventually the vessels enter cold seas with floating islands of ice, freezing cold forces them to turn

back for the warmer waters to their north, convinced they have found Niflheim.From this point on events are somewhat confused. There may in fact be a missing chapter inSaemunds story; for exactly how far his ships penetrated or how many were on this expedition remainsunknown. If his ships were off course, they may somehow have reached New Zealands western coastlines.Did they venture into Milford Sound, establish a settlement while crops were grown, and carry out searchesbeyond this fiord, for any traces of minerals or gemstones? I suggest this possibility because in 1997 and1998 Heather and I discovered remains of an ancient stone settlement, and a number of large rocks bearingScandinavian inscriptions in which the name Saemund is prominent. Further evidence of Scandinaviansettlement and rock inscriptions was found by us at a Bay of Islands location.

Saemund eventually returned to Sweden, but how many other similar expeditions sailed Australian-New Zealand waters and beyond we may never know. For not only have many ancient chronicles been lost,

but also many vessels came to grief along the way.The search for Australias unknown mediaeval European discoveries continues. Perhaps furtherdiscoveries yet await the Gilroys in this unique lost chapter of Australias hidden history.

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Sir Owain Miles and his expedition lands onAustralian shores after leaving England in 1135.

Ocean-going ships of time of King Richard the 2nd.Picture drawn in 1319.

A ship of the fleet of William the Conqueror transporting troops for theinvasion of England [Bayeux Tapestry]. Such vessels could have been

used on cross-ocean voyages.


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This massive weather-worn head of the Celtic Sun-God, Bel, discovered amid a ruinedtemple dedicated to the god at a Central Australian site, [note distant pyramid]measures 1.78 metres tall by up to 2.3 metres wide. It is part of an extensive complex

dating back at least 3,000 years BP [Before Present].Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The right side of the head still bears fading glyphs[chalked in for photographic purposes].Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The glyphs read: Bel the Sun, theSun-Serpent, the Eye of the Sun.


At another Central Australian site stands a 12 metre by 12 metre stone circle, at the centre of which is erected a phallic-like standing stone bearing crude images of Bel on its north and south sides. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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Heather stand beside the north face image of Bel,. Thestone stands 3.66 metres tall by 6.4 metres in

circumference. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The south side Bel image. Note mouth and crudelyhollowed out right eye in shadow.


Heather stands beside the east side of the Bel image, where oghamstrokes and a Sun-disc and figure with raised arms proclaim: Behold

the Phallus and Praise Bel. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Near the circle are the remains of dwellings built along alengthy ancient street leading to a gold reef.

Photo copyright 9c0 Rex Gilroy 2012.

Overgrown remains of a lengthy stone wall[across centre of photo].

Photo copyri ht Rex Gilroy 2012.


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MAJORBRONZE-AGE CELTICTOWN DISCOVERED.Between August/September 2008 the Gilroys assisted by Greg Foster began an on-going

archaeological investigation of a lost Bronze-Age Celtic town, hidden at a highly confidential mountainous

location in the Hawkesbury River district. Following Rexs discovery of a small ruined temple containing afallen large stone image of the Celtic Sun-God, Bel [identified from ogham glyphs carved upon it], a chancemeeting with a farmer led to him taking them to inspect an ancient stone wall which has parallels with othersfound in New Zealand dating back over 3,000 years, and which contain ancient Celtic ogham inscriptions.

The purpose of the Hawkesbury stone wall remains a mystery for now, although a large number of Celticogham engravings have been found upon rocks in the vicinity of it. Returning here on Monday 15 thDecember 2008, Rex carried out a lone investigation which led to him climbing a steep mountainside.

Working his way between two tall rock formations, he found himself standing in an enclosure, before a huge,deteriorated face carving. Ogham glyphs nearby identified the image as that of Bel, and the site a templededicated to the God. He soon found more glyphs and altar stones revealing this to be an importantcentrepiece of the Town of Bels Eye, as stated in one of the inscriptions.

Overgrown outlines of a square stone structure.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Rex Gilroy examining the wall. Photocopyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The wall. It resembles Bronze-Age Celtic examples foundin New Zealand. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The entrance to the Temple of Bel.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The massive face of the God Bel, carved over 3,000 years agoby workers who were the builders of the Town of Bels Eye,

which now lies buried in dense scrub.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The temple entrance from the inside.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A closer view of the face, carved deep into the ironstoneformation. Other large Bel faces exist in the area.


This ogham inscription, found at the temple statesBy day Hugh here observes the Sun.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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During March 2008 the Gilroys carried out another search in New Zealand in which a majordiscovery was made of the remains of a 12th century Swedish Viking village at a Bay of Islands [North Island]location.

To reach the site Rex and Heather, together with local field assistant Yvonne Stephens and others,had to work their way through dense forest. Besides the remains of stone walls three large stones were

discovered to contain Scandinavian runic messages and images.The first stone discovered bore the images of two longships and two horses. The second engravedstone bore a lengthy inscription later translated to read:

The wind blew us into this bay. The weather was hot.We all arrived safely and well. Led by our Chieftain Saemund.

Skraelings* were fought in a bay to the south[*Skraelings was a Viking word for natives generally].

The third inscribed stone discovered bore a message which, when translated later was found to state:

We are men and women of Rus* who arrived in shipswith cattle and horses and fowls.We cry out for Odins blessing. Odin strengthen us.

[*Rus Russia].

Viking longships [or dragonships] on theEuropean coast. In such vessels Scandinavians sailed

to Africa to trade with the Moors; they also

discovered Greenland and then NorthAmerica 400 years before Columbus. They traded

with India and Malaya and as Rex Gilroymaintains, found Australia, New Guinea, the near

Pacific Islands and New Zealand.

Faded ancient Scandinavian ships rock art found by Rex Gilroy in1991on a stone at a New England site between Tamworth and

Armidale [chalked in for photographic purposes].Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A Thor and longship engraving found by RexGilroy at a remote Cape Reinga beach [North

Island, New Zealand]. Thor holds his hammer,Molnir, with which he makes the thunder andlightning.


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This big discovery, together with earlier evidence found in both North and South Islands, is revealing aconsiderable presence of Norsemen in New Zealand in 12th century times. Similar finds must await theGilroys on the Australian mainland. During our November, 2011 Tasmanian expedition we uncoveredremains of an ancient Scandinavian village at a north-western Tasmanian bushland location [see January, 2012Mysterious Australia newsletter].

Rex Gilroy measuring an ancient stone wall, one ofseveral found in the vicinity of the Scandinavian rockinscriptions. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A view of a section of one of the stone walls.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

A Bay of Islands stone bearing two longshipand two horse carvings.


The Skraelings inscription, revealing aBay of Islands landing by Scandinavians

who were attacked by hostile Polynesians.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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TEAM GILROYAre you aged 20 to 50 and able to enjoy bushwalking

and live in the Sydney/Blue Mountains area.Team Gilroy, who are engaged in the searchfor the Yowie and mystery animals and

have discovered relics and rock inscriptionsof maritime cultures that explored Australia

thousands of years before the Dutch or CaptainCook are searching for an interested, psychicallyattuned man or woman to assist Rex and HeatherGilroy on a regular basis in their exciting searchesand discoveries of pyramids and megalithic ruins

of Australias Lost Civilisation of Uru?Interested??

We want to hear from you at 02 47823441or email us on [email protected].

The inscription describing arriving colonists.We cry out for Odins blessing.


Heather Gilroy in the Bay of Islands forest, searching with

husband Rex for evidence of ancient Viking colonists of NewZealand. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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Please Note

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.Our next meeting will beheld on Saturday17th March, 2012 -same time, same place 12 Kamillaroi Road,Katoomba.

So until our next meeting

Watch the Skies!

Rex and Heather

mysterious australia newsletter - february 2012

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