Giants and Unexplained Artifacts in Heavener Oklahoma?

In reading Steven Quayle & Tom Horn's new book Unearthing the Lost World of the Cloudeaters, I came across something very interesting.  Since I am from Southeastern Oklahoma and have been to this place on numerous occasions, I was fascinated at the mention of it in this book.  Although, I have never heard this before. Let me fill you in..

"Heavener Runestone: An off-the-beaten-path discovery of an ancient rock with what appears to be the same kind of block Hebrew lettering that was discussed in an earlier chapter was long hidden from view through the 1800s and 1900s.  The massive rock was found in the early twentieth century in an Oklahoma boulder-strewn field surrounded by rattlesnakes.  Despite the assertion that these letters were "rune" writings dating back to A.D. 300-1300, other people have interpreted them to be Paleo Hebrew.  Interestingly, the rock is supposed to sit atop a vast cave network with strange artifacts, including, according to some locals, the remains of the bodies of giants.  The entrance to this cave was dynamited shut a few years ago to keep people out.  Certainly, the area appears to be pre-Adamic."

Honestly, I was very disappointed at the information that was written in this book.  It made me wonder where did they hear this information?  We know as "locals" that Gloria Farley and other researchers did extensive work at this site and the inscription of the rock has been deciphered as Elder Futhark, but the final "L" is reversed compared with the last "A", and the second character is a short-twig "A" from the Younger Futhark. The transcription is then gaomedal, but is generally thought that the intention is that the second character should be an elder futhark "N" (also reversed). The inscription then reads gnomedal (either "gnome valley", or a personal name "G. Nomedal").  NOT HEBREW!

I have never heard anything relating to the remains of the bodies of giants in Heavener, although there has been many news articles from the late 1930's about giant skeletons found at the Spiro Mounds, which is not to far away.  The cave entrance at the Heavener Runestone was at one time was open, but has now since caved in.  You can clearly see fallen rock from the brittle shale above.  There was a story of an old-timer, Apache Jim that claimed he went inside the cave.  He stated that his dog went in and never came back.  In the cave there was a big room filled with animal bones, charcoal, and inscriptions on the walls. He stated that the entrance was near the waterfall, but no one can find it now.  I've never heard of anyone dynamiting the entrance.  

As an avid researcher into this subject, it would be interesting if anyone from Heavener or Poteau, and the surrounding areas knows anything more about this cave.  I'm not trying to knock Steve Quayle & Tom Horn's book. It was a fantastic read with an enormous about of information.  I just question the authenticity of this passage about the Runestone.  I feel like someone gave them poor information.  

I have also heard that there is another cave nearby. In September 2003 an agreement was reached between the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Commission and Farley's Friends of the Heavener Runestone to hire an archaeologist to search for a nearby cave reportedly bearing similar markings on its walls. If the cave contains artifacts, they may support the theory that Vikings were the first Europeans to set foot in present Oklahoma.  

If there is any truth that there is a cave with a vast network of strange artifacts, including the remains of the bodies of giants, I would like to hear the story. 

We do know that some Phoenician coins were found in this area. http://www.gloriafarley.com/chap11.htm

The Phoenicians were the descendants of the Canaanites, which were a race of Nephilim. But that is a whole other post. :)

But here is what I found really interesting when researching this:

W.A. McCormick says

I am submitting this because some have accused me of lying about my Grandfather’s statement about the mine, and all have misquoted my name. My name was never W.W. I have my Grandfather’s signed statement about the mine, and I can prove the signature for any of the slanderers who have the guts to stand up. I was at Abilene Christian College (now University) in 1968-1969 when I shared the statement with a professor there. I thought he ignored it. Only recently did I become aware that it had gotten any attention, and then I learned that some were calling it a fabrication. I’m here to take you slanderers on. I live in Lindale, TX. My real name is W.A. McCormick. If any of you had looked for Atlas Almon Mathis in any genealogical records, he was there!!!!!! I was there with him!!!!!

(Written by W.A. McCormick as stated by Atlas A. Mathis. W.A. McCormick{signature} 3-22-68)

In the year 1928 I, Atlas Almon Mathis, was working in coal mine No. 5 located two miles north of Heavener Oklahoma. This was a shaft mine and they told us it was two miles deep. [I have since learned that this mine had two levels: One level at 1800 feet and the really deep one at 2 miles] The mine was so deep that they let us down into it on an elevator. The elevator was released at the top and fell so fast that I was weightless and my dinner bucket would turn upside down and the bail would hold it to my arm, however, the gallon of water in the bottom of it would not spill spill out. This elevator would fall at least several seconds [he told me “several minutes” and I thought that would be enough time to travel several miles, not 2 miles, so I reasoned with him and got the change to “at least several seconds”] at that rate, and then they gradually slowed the elevator till it stopped at the bottom. They pumped air down to us, it was so deep. [He told me many times about the huge steam engine that pumped the air. He told me that mules were also let down at the same speed, and that they panicked hysterically every time.]

Tom Davidson was in charge of the mine. Lee Elders, Mont Claiborn, Bill Gusky, Oat Dawes, John Raiborn, and a young fellow by the name of Mattox were working there also.

One night I shot 4 shots in room 24 of this mine and the next morning there were several concrete blocks laying in the [Page end] signature – Atlas. A. Mathis

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room. These blocks were about 12″ cubes and were so smooth and polished on the outside that they would serve as a mirror on all 6 sides yet they were full of gravel because I chipped one of them open with my pick and it was plain concrete inside. As I started to timber the room up, it caved in and I barely escaped. When I came back after the cave-in, a solid wall of these polished blocks was left exposed. [On another occasion Atlas told me that he looked through the hole he had blasted in the wall, and there was open space beyond. He did not have time to explore it.] About 100 to 150 yards further down our air core another miner struck this same wall or one very similar. Immediately they pulled us out of this wing of the mine and forbade us to tell anything we had seen.

This mine was closed in the fall of 1928 and the crew went to Kentucky and I think they were in No. 11 there. In the summer and fall of 1929 they won a prize for being such good miners and their pictures came out in the paper. I don’t remember what town it was near or the name of the paper.

Also before I started working on this crew they had a similar experience in mine 24 at Wilberton, Oklahoma in about the
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year 1926. They said they dug up two odd things: One was a solid block of silver in the shape of a barrel and the other was a bone that was about the size of an elephant. I don’t know if they meant only in diameter or if in diameter and in length, but they did say it had nuckles on each end. This silver block had the prints of the staves one it and the saw that first struck it cut off a chip on the edge at one end. The miners saw the silver dust the saw was pulling out and went about to dig out the block. What was done with these things I do not know. In the case of the blocks in my room in No. 5, I don’t think any were kept.

W.A. McCormick
Box 195 F-HC
Henderson, Tenn

A.A. Mathis
Rt. 1
Water Valley, Miss. 38965

signature – Atlas. A. Mathis
_________________
Grandson of Atlas Almon Mathis.

http://www.hecklerspray.com/awesome-or-off-putting-oklahomas-286-million-year-old-block-wall/200935741.php

Maybe there is more here than we thought.  

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