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Connections between Native Americans and Knights Templar
The Templar-Native American contact thesis is no fringe fantasy — it is grounded in physical anomalies, Native oral tradition, and independent pre-Columbian research converging on the same sites. The Newport Tower in Rhode Island stands as the most concrete flashpoint, with Wampanoag tribal testimony now actively corroborating what researchers like Scott Wolter and Steven Sora have argued for decades. The cumberlandite stone embedded in the tower — Rhode Island's state rock, a rare magnetically anomalous iron mineral — appears to link Templar alchemical metallurgy directly to a material that Wampanoag sources now say their ancestors gifted to the builders as a ceremonial agreement.
Evidence
- Scott Wolter, forensic geologist and author of 'Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers,' has argued extensively that Templar-descended Cistercian networks conducted pre-Columbian Atlantic voyages, using Newport, Rhode Island as a key landfall.
- Wolter points to the Newport Tower's architectural signature — a round-arch Romanesque structure on columns consistent with Cistercian rotunda design — as incompatible with 17th-century colonial construction methods attributed to Governor Benedict Arnold.
- He described the Templars as 'brothers and friends,' not conquerors.
- This aligns with Steven Sora's research in 'The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar,' which traces a Sinclair family expedition to New England circa 1398, itself drawing on the Zeno Narrative and Henry Sinclair's documented command of the Orkney Islands.
- Andrew Collins has noted that Templar esoteric traditions — particularly sacred geometry and ley-line orientation — would have made magnetically anomalous stones like cumberlandite (found in only two locations globally, one being Rhode Island) of immense ritual significance.