The Kensington Runestone, Templar Treasure, and the Green Jar | Basement #006: Scott Wolter

TL;DR

Scott Wolter argues the Kensington Runestone is genuine proof of a 1362 Knights Templar expedition to North America, encoded with sacred mysteries being suppressed by institutions.

Key Points

• 1.Scott Wolter is a forensic geologist who has run a materials forensics lab since 1990, doing "autopsies on concrete and rock" for industrial and criminal cases including 9/11 Pentagon analysis.
• 2.His first major criminal case: Las Vegas homicide detective Tom Monahan asked him to date concrete encasing a murdered 17-year-old girl found buried in the desert. Wolter estimated 1–3 years; she had been missing exactly 1 year and 10 months.
• 3.The girl was identified through a facial reconstruction mold made from the concrete cast, leading to one phone tip that matched dental records — Wolter calls it the most emotional moment of his career.
• 4.TV career began when investigative reporter Maria Oz (wife of producer Andy Oz) interviewed him; both the murder case and the runestone aired on WCCCO that same weekend, leading Andy to propose a documentary.
• 5.They raised $150,000 independently, filmed in Sweden, Scotland, and France, pitched at Realscreen, had six networks competing, and History Channel paid the most — becoming the hit show *Holy Grail in America*.
• 6.The Kensington Runestone was found in 1898 by Swedish farmer Olaf Ohman near Alexandria, Minnesota, tangled in the roots of a 25–30-year-old aspen tree on his 100-acre property.
• 7.Wolter dated the stone by comparing weathering of biotite mica minerals on the runestone against dated Revolutionary War-era slate tombstones from Maine; minerals were completely gone by 200 years, placing the carving before 1698 — long before European settlement of Minnesota.
• 8.The stone is identified as Paleoproterozoic meta-greywacke from the Thompson Formation near Duluth — a rock type Wolter mapped in college, giving him immediate familiarity with its 17 minerals.
• 9.The inscription reads: 8 Geats and 22 Norwegians on an acquisition/land-claiming journey from Vinland; they found 10 men "red from blood and dead" at their camp; the letters AVM appear (Ave Virgo Maria — a Cistercian/Templar prayer); dated 1362.
• 10.The stone is double-dated using the medieval Easter Table method (developed 1314 by Ole Worm): a Sunday letter, golden number, and column number hidden within the inscription independently confirm the year 1362 — a forgery protection code.
• 11.Wolter believes the word previously read as "shelters" is actually "Sinclair" (SKLAR), one of ~14 historical spellings of the famous Templar-linked family name, with an anomalous cross on the L matching Templar symbolism.
• 12.After being initiated as a Knight Templar himself, Wolter realized the inscription encodes the Book of Enoch and Enochian mysteries — knowledge he says is actively suppressed by governments and religious institutions.
• 13.Wolter's father was a Northwest Airlines pilot who drowned on a scuba trip to the Great Barrier Reef that Wolter himself arranged; Wolter was later told by Northwest's chief pilot Don Naira that his father worked for the CIA flying jets to Central America and was likely "taken out."
• 14.Wolter says accepting the runestone as genuine triggers a domino chain of historical revisions leading back through the Knights Templar, the Talpiot Tomb in Jerusalem (discovered 1980), ancient Egypt, and potentially Atlantis.
• 15.The "green jar" referenced in the title and Wolter's newest book *The Greatest Templar Tale Never Told* represents the endpoint of this evidence trail — an artifact or discovery connecting Templar treasure in North America to deeper pre-Christian mysteries (full details promised in the book).