Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: allenroy@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (callen roy) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Noahs Ark Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 07:54:20 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 53 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Iterested in solving a mystery? Henrs I could use your help. In 1915, Harold Williams wrote down the deathbed confession of Haji Yearam, an Armenian who lived at the foot of Mt. Ararat as a child. Haji told of three men who came to his village and asked for guides up the mountain. Haji and his father took them up to Noah's Ark. They were very unhappy to discover something that wasn't suposed to exist. They vowed not to tell anyone, or else. Haji figured that they were all dead, so he could safely tell the story. On November 8, 1918, Williams was reading in the Brockton Enterprise, Mass., when he found read of a deathbed confession of an English scientist who claimed to have found Noah's Ark. His story coroborated the story by Haji. He too, figured that everyone else was dead. The copies of both stories that Williams had were burned in a house fire several years later. so we are left with the word of Williams that they existed. However, He was not the only one to read of the scientist. At about the same time, the story appeared in a paper in Alabama (although which one is still a mystery). And, there are several other unconfirmed reports from various places across the US. The mystery I'm inviting you to join in solving is tracing the source of the newpaper articles. I've had the opportunity to search the Brockton Enterprise. And just as Williams said, in the lower, righ-hand corner of the back page (pg. 20) is....nothing, because that corner has been torn off. Someone else found something so interesting that they ignored all the local and international news of the ending of WWI and mutilated the only surviving copy of the paper. What could it be? But all is not lost. Considering that the same story appeared all across the country at about the same time, the sounce most likey is one of the wire services. The Brockton Enterprise almost exclusively used the UPI wire. So, if you can, look in all the papers in you neck of the woods. Especially those who used the UPI wire. The dateds to check are from about November 7 to 12, 1918. If you have access to the UPI archives in New York, by all means see what you can find. The major concern is; who is this english scientist? If we had a name, so much more could be done. If you are in England, one of the papers in London from that time is certainly the source for the UPI story. Oh how I wish I could get to London. If you find anything, or want mor information, or what ever, just reply to this posting, send me some email, or write me at: 7921 SE. 92nd Ave. #29 Portland, Oregon, USA 97266 Happy Hunting: C. Allen Roy