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GOBLINS IN FRANCE: TRUTH BASED ON ANCIENT

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The entrance to the Vercors Cane in an undisclosed site in the Vercors Massif. The cave has long been the source of strange happenings and disappearances, which forced the French authorities to close the site to public use. Could goblins still be alive there? From 'Paranormal Occurrences Today" June 2008. Writer: Ann Francis Clancy Photos: Terry Anderson On September 12, 1940, a group of young teenagers near the village of Grenoble in France discovered the entrance of a cave found on the Vercors Massif. The Vercors cave is home to over 600 parietal wall and ceiling paintings that have been dated as far back as 12,000 BC. It is thought to be made by ancient modern humans who were living what is now modern day France. A group of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Kent studied details of Palaeolithic and Neolithic art featuring animal symbols at certain sites in Turkey, Spain, Germany, and France. The study revealed that all of these sites used the same method of date-keeping that is based on a very superior knowledge of astronomy, even though all of these art are from different points in time, with about tens of thousands of years between them. The paintings fall into major general categories: abstract marks such as dots and squiggles which archaeologist have interpreted in some cases to mean celestial imagery; human-like hands; images of mammoths, horses, lions, which are surprisingly life-like and unexpected for that period of time. One of the Vercors paintings found in the mid levels of the caverns. But the strangest of these paintings is that of a beast with the body of a humanoid, lower legs like an goat, front arms with talons of a cat, and a strange head which appears to have very long straight ears. Another astounding image was that of a animal who appears to be wearing a goblin face with a large jaws. The painting shows the man being charged by a 'goblin' with a spear lodged in its stomach and some part of its intestines dangling out. In the early 1900s, there were reports of strange disappearances of people around the village, mostly of young people. In fact, the teenager who found the cave, Marcel Bona, was looking for his missing dog who had accidentally fallen into the cave. He was never found. In 1998, due to the missing people reports about the region, Ravidat Thom, a documentary researcher solicited the support of his three friends: Jacques Marsal, Georges Agenel, and Simon Coencas. They would later descend into the depths into the cave which is 3km deep and was thought to be a secret passage to the a larger cavernous expanse which was close by. They were never seen again. Images from the Thom expedition in 1988 recovered from an undamaged camera belonging to researcher Geroge Agenei, one of the team members, exploring the lower caverns and tunnels. Several years ago, near the site, a series of four skeletons were found in the lower northern sections of the primary cavern, which were assumed to belong to the Thom team. Also nearby a camera was recovered with preserved photos left undamaged by the distilled air of the caverns. An astounding photo showed the remains of a unknown humanoid. The photo analysis reveals that the bones, taken at the time of Thom effort, could actually be interpreted as a small humanoid, as yet undiscovered species. Mysterious ruins on one of the lower tunnels connecting the explored cavern upper regions to the lower extensions, per Thom notes. The size of the structures are half the size of humans for use, and other items as small axes, stone knives and bowls were found nearby. These ruins were never located. Paleontologists have attempted to explain what these paintings and the strange animal's photo may mean. A school of thought championed by Abbe Henri Breuil, one of the most respected French scholars of prehistoric art claims that whoever created the Vercors paintings of the 'goblins' did so in a bid to put humans under their species and achieved dominance over them. In other words, the painting of a goblin was not meant to be a mythological creature of god, since the artists always presented art of actual events. This meant that the artist pictured an animal that was actually in fact living. A goblin statue in deep thought. Fact as true as fiction? Another paleolithic scholar, Professor Michael Rhodes, believes that the paintings were created as a record of a race known in the 'A Commentary on the Book of Gates" (1868) as the Tlabhuath. The writer, Oxford Professor Jebidiah Ethan Smith, referred to them as the 'Little Folk' who may have been the source of the legends of trolls, goblins and elves. They were also an original race from Yidath, the Archean continent. The seclusion and isolation of the cave would make it very ideal to perform this type of ceremony. This explanation is further supported by the evidence that some chambers contain inner structures that would house creatures half the size of men; an implication that some chambers may have, years ago, been occupied. Analysis of three-toed footprints found in the cave also supports it. This theory has led some people to believe that up till this day, the 'goblins' or the Tlabhuath of the cave were still alive and could be responsible for the Thom disappearances reported before the cave was banned and its eventual closure to the public.

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GOBLINS IN FRANCE: TRUTH

BASED ON ANCIENT

SUPERSTITIONS?

The entrance to the Vercors Cane in an undisclosed site in the Vercors Massif. The cave has long been the source of strange happenings and disappearances, which forced the French authorities to close the site to public use. Could goblins still be alive there? From 'Paranormal Occurrences Today" June 2008. Writer: Ann Francis Clancy Photos: Terry Anderson On September 12, 1940, a group of young teenagers near the village of Grenoble in France discovered the entrance of a cave found on the Vercors Massif. The Vercors cave is home to over 600 parietal wall and ceiling paintings that have been dated as far back as 12,000 BC. It is thought to be made by ancient modern humans who were living what is now modern day France. A group of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Kent studied details of Palaeolithic and Neolithic art featuring animal symbols at certain sites in Turkey, Spain, Germany, and France. The study revealed that all of these sites used the same method of date-keeping that is based on a very superior knowledge of astronomy, even though all of these art are from different points in time, with about tens of thousands of years between them. The paintings fall into major general categories: abstract marks such as dots and squiggles which archaeologist have interpreted in some cases to mean celestial imagery; human-like hands; images of mammoths, horses, lions, which are surprisingly life-like and unexpected for that period of time. One of the Vercors paintings found in the mid levels of the caverns. But the strangest of these paintings is that of a beast with the body of a humanoid, lower legs like an goat, front arms with talons of a cat, and a strange head which appears to have very long straight ears. Another astounding image was that of a animal who appears to be wearing a goblin face with a large jaws. The painting shows the man being charged by a 'goblin' with a spear lodged in its stomach and some part of its intestines dangling out. In the early 1900s, there were reports of strange disappearances of people around the village, mostly of young people. In fact, the teenager who found the cave, Marcel Bona, was looking for his missing dog who had accidentally fallen into the cave. He was never found. In 1998, due to the missing people reports about the region, Ravidat Thom, a documentary researcher solicited the support of his three friends: Jacques Marsal, Georges Agenel, and Simon Coencas. They would later descend into the depths into the cave which is 3km deep and was thought to be a secret passage to the a larger cavernous expanse which was close by. They were never seen again. Images from the Thom expedition in 1988 recovered from an undamaged camera belonging to researcher Geroge Agenei, one of the team members, exploring the lower caverns and tunnels. Several years ago, near the site, a series of four skeletons were found in the lower northern sections of the primary cavern, which were assumed to belong to the Thom team. Also nearby a camera was recovered with preserved photos left undamaged by the distilled air of the caverns. An astounding photo showed the remains of a unknown humanoid. The photo analysis reveals that the bones, taken at the time of Thom effort, could actually be interpreted as a small humanoid, as yet undiscovered species. Mysterious ruins on one of the lower tunnels connecting the explored cavern upper regions to the lower extensions, per Thom notes. The size of the structures are half the size of humans for use, and other items as small axes, stone knives and bowls were found nearby. These ruins were never located. Paleontologists have attempted to explain what these paintings and the strange animal's photo may mean. A school of thought championed by Abbe Henri Breuil, one of the most respected French scholars of prehistoric art claims that whoever created the Vercors paintings of the 'goblins' did so in a bid to put humans under their species and achieved dominance over them. In other words, the painting of a goblin was not meant to be a mythological creature of god, since the artists always presented art of actual events. This meant that the artist pictured an animal that was actually in fact living. A goblin statue in deep thought. Fact as true as fiction? Another paleolithic scholar, Professor Michael Rhodes, believes that the paintings were created as a record of a race known in the 'A Commentary on the Book of Gates" (1868) as the Tlabhuath. The writer, Oxford Professor Jebidiah Ethan Smith, referred to them as the 'Little Folk' who may have been the source of the legends of trolls, goblins and elves. They were also an original race from Yidath, the Archean continent. The seclusion and isolation of the cave would make it very ideal to perform this type of ceremony. This explanation is further supported by the evidence that some chambers contain inner structures that would house creatures half the size of men; an implication that some chambers may have, years ago, been occupied. Analysis of three- toed footprints found in the cave also supports it. This theory has led some people to believe that up till this day, the 'goblins' or the Tlabhuath of the cave were still alive and could be responsible for the Thom disappearances reported before the cave was banned and its eventual closure to the public.

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