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| Judaculla Rock - via Onmountain, CC BY-SA 3.0 |
There are places all over the world where rocks have been decorated with art, symbols, petroglyphs, and marks that are sometimes considered decorative and sometimes seen as much more. (see video link at bottom)
In North Carolina, there is a large rock covered in petroglyphs that have yet to be deciphered. It is associated with the Cherokee Indians as the rock and area is considered a sacred site for ceremonies. As is sometimes the case with any of these locations, it is also part of legends including supposedly being the source of strange sounds and nighttime UFO sightings.
This 240-square-foot outcrop of soapstone has more than 1,500 petroglyphs closely together. There are stick-like figures, and two 7-digit hands (or claw) prints, among thousands of cup marks. The site has been included on the National Register of Historic Places.
Though some modern interpretations of those seven-fingered hands are that they represent aliens, the traditional Cherokee explanation is they represent or were made by the ancient Judaculla who was a slant-eyed giant with seven fingers who lived there. It made this stone a marker of the boundary of its territory. Do not go past here because you are in my hunting area.
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| Did Judaculla make claw marks here? |
Judaculla is translated as “he has them slanting” or the “slant-eyed giant.” To add to the ancient alien theory, the Cherokee described it as having superhuman strength and the ability to fly or even "teleport" in an instant from mountaintop to mountaintop.
While the Cherokee believed that Judaculla would take people to the spirit world, the alien version has it taking them to their spaceship or home planet.
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| Laser-guided view of the petroglyphs on Judaculla Rock Image by Warren LeMay / CC BY-SA 4.0 |
On the pure science side of this rock art, we know the petroglyphs probably date back to between 2000 and 3000 BC. Quarry tools were discovered in digs around the rock area. No other stones in the area have similar markings. But adding to the mystery, in Scotland, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of stones engraved with identical cup marks and cup and ring motifs as those on the Judaculla Rock.
Many questions remain: Who was in both places? Cherokee? Aliens? Is this rock's carvings a picture of a peace treaty between the Cherokee and the Catawba tribes, or a pictorial version of a battle? What about the pseudo-science folks who attribute it to alien visitors to the area?
Publicity, such as the America Unearthed program from the History Channel in 2014 just brought in made a “documentary” about Judaculla Rock that brought in lots of tourists and "some weird or unstable folks.”
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