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Dirty Hands at the Dinner Table: How Authority Conceals the Temple Mount Secrets

I find the stories of the Temple Mount in Israel infinitely fascinating.  The way authority figures hide things—whether it’s a father at the dinner table deflecting his daughter’s question in the movie Fire Walk with Me or entire systems built around keeping eyes off what’s buried—keeps echoing louder in the news and in the air. That scene isn’t just cinema; it’s a blueprint for how power protects itself. Laura asks the direct, impossible-to-ignore question—“Why were you in my room?”—and the response isn’t denial or apology. It’s inversion: Leland grabs her hand, inspects it closely, and declares, “Your hands are filthy… look, there is dirt way under this fingernail.” Suddenly, the spotlight shifts, the original inquiry evaporates, and the hierarchy snaps back into place. The abuser stays safe behind the façade of parental authority, and the victim is left doubting her own reality. I see that exact mechanism repeating at every scale, from family secrets to the kind of institutional cover that goes on at the Temple Mount.

What makes it so gripping is how deliberate it can feel when you zoom out. After the 1967 war, Israel had the Mount in hand—full military control, the keys to the gates, the ability to reshape everything. Yet the Waqf keeps running the show day to day. The official line has always been peace preservation: don’t inflame the Muslim world, avoid a wider religious war, and show tolerance as the new custodian of holy sites for all faiths. It sounded pragmatic at the time, almost noble. But layer on the archaeology angle, and it starts looking like genius-level deflection. Create a permanent tension zone where any serious dig—any probe into the tunnels, chambers, ancient wells, or pre-Davidic features—gets framed as an assault on Islam’s third-holiest site. The Waqf has a motive to block it (preserving their narrative overlay), the world has a motive to pressure Israel against escalation, and nothing changes underground. No permits for neutral international teams, no comprehensive mapping with modern tech without diplomatic blowback, no accidental exposure of whatever Solomon’s people might have sealed away before the Babylonians arrived. Hostility becomes the perfect guard dog: it barks at intruders, keeps the curious at bay, and nobody has to admit they’re hiding something.

The red heifer push keeps underscoring how serious this feels on the ground. Preparations haven’t stopped; they’ve accelerated in ways that are hard to ignore. The Temple Institute has been at it for over a decade, educating, crafting vessels, training priests, and monitoring candidates. Those five from Texas back in 2022 got a lot of attention—flown in, raised under strict conditions in Shiloh. Some were disqualified over time for developing imperfections (a single white hair can disqualify under halachic rules). There was that big July 1, 2025, event in the Samarian hills: a full simulation of the ritual burning with a disqualified animal, complete with priests in garments, ashes collected. The Institute clarified it was practice only, non-kosher because the heifer wasn’t perfect, and the setup wasn’t fully consecrated. Still, four candidates remain under observation there as of early 2026. Ministers have visited the site; photos circulate, and the message is clear: when a truly flawless one is ready, and everything else aligns, purification of the ashes becomes possible. That’s the biblical prerequisite for resuming Temple-level purity and service. No ashes, no Third Temple activity. With record numbers of Jewish visitors to the Mount lately—over 76,000 in 2025, shattering previous highs—and quiet shifts like police allowing limited prayer pages or sheets on site (a crack in the old status quo since late 2025 into this year), the momentum builds.

Those tunnels are key to the story. Explorers like Josh Gates have documented what they can—ancient passages, some possibly water systems from way back, others sealed or restricted. In episodes of Expedition Unknown, he rappels into shafts beneath Jerusalem, navigating cramped, centuries-sealed tunnels that hint at connections to the Mount area, though collapses and restrictions halt full exploration. Rabbis and Orthodox groups have long held traditions that the Ark never left Jerusalem: hidden by Solomon in purpose-built chambers, or by Josiah, or Jeremiah, or someone in that chain before the First Temple fell. A few bold digs happened quietly decades ago—1981 efforts by rabbis like Yehuda Getz chiseling into bedrock passages under the Mount, rumors of cleared rooms but no public Ark reveal. Modern statements from some rabbis lean hard on “it’s here, well hidden, we know where.” If it’s in those under-Mount networks—pre-David threshing-floor caves, Solomon-era vaults—the current setup is an ideal lock. Islamic administration means no Jewish-led archaeology without crisis. Muslim sensitivities mean no validation of biblical claims through digs. Politics means endless stalemate. And yet the pressure cooker is heating: October 7 still looms as a possible reaction to perceived Temple threats, red heifer talk fuels messianic expectations across lines, and post-COVID distrust means fewer people accept the old “don’t ask, don’t dig” deflection.

Whether it’s unaccountable governments sitting on restricted zones (Afghanistan caves, Chinese pyramids, Iraqi museums), or mystery-school oral traditions guarding knowledge, or straight gaslighting at the family level, the playbook is the same: manufacture antagonism or taboo to keep inquiry radioactive. But the erosion of blind trust changes everything. People aren’t swallowing “your hands are dirty” as an answer anymore. They’re asking why the room was entered in the first place. That’s why this feels like disclosure season—UFO files crack open, ancient anomalies get debated publicly, and the Temple Mount simmers closer to a boil. If the Ark surfaces, or a red heifer ritual goes live, or the status quo finally snaps, the cascade could rewrite maps, faiths, and power structures overnight.

Footnotes

1.  The dinner table scene in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, where Leland inspects Laura’s hands and says, “Your hands are filthy… look, there is dirt way under this fingernail,” is from the screenplay by David Lynch and Bob Engels (1991 shooting draft).

2.  Moshe Dayan’s decision to maintain the status quo on the Temple Mount, granting the Waqf administrative control while Israel handles external security, was made shortly after the Six-Day War in June 1967, without formal cabinet ratification.

3.  The Waqf’s role and the ban on Jewish prayer have been key elements of the status quo, though recent reports indicate limited allowances for Jewish prayer pages or sheets as of early 2026.

4.  Jewish visitor numbers to the Temple Mount reached record highs, with over 76,000 in 2025, according to activist groups.

5.  The Temple Institute conducted a practice red heifer ritual simulation on July 1, 2025, in the Samarian hills using a disqualified heifer; four candidates remain under monitoring in Shiloh as of early 2026.

6.  Explorations of tunnels beneath Jerusalem, including potential links to the Temple Mount, feature in Expedition Unknown episodes with Josh Gates, showing sealed passages and historical signatures but no conclusive Ark discovery due to restrictions.

7.  Jewish tradition and rabbinic statements often hold that the Ark was hidden in underground chambers beneath the Temple Mount before the Babylonian destruction, with some rabbis claiming knowledge of its location.

Bibliography

•  Lynch, David, and Bob Engels. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me screenplay (shooting draft). Lynch/Frost Productions, August 8, 1991.

•  Shragai, Nadav. “The ‘Status Quo’ on the Temple Mount.” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, November-December 2014.

•  “What is the Temple Mount ‘status quo’?” JNS.org, June 19, 2022.

•  “Jewish prayer signals Temple Mount’s shifting status quo.” The Jerusalem Post, 2026.

•  “UPDATE AND CLARIFICATION REGARDING THE RED HEIFER.” The Temple Institute official website and Instagram, November 2025.

•  “Record Temple Mount Visits and Red Heifers Signal Prophetic Momentum in Israel.” MyCharisma.com, February 4, 2026.

•  “Josh Gates Searches For The Lost Ark Of The Covenant In Jerusalem.” Expedition Unknown, Discovery Channel.

•  “The Ark of the Covenant.” Associates for Biblical Research.

•  Moskoff, Harry H. “The Enigma of the Lost Ark of the Covenant.” The Times of Israel Blogs, September 10, 2017.

Rich Hoffman

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The CIA Found The Ark of the Covenant: Confirming that it is located in Axum, Ethiopia

Is remote viewing possible?  I have discussed this before about Dolores Cannon and a very interesting book she wrote about the Essenes, using regression hypnosis to investigate relationships with Jesus Christ from 2,000 years ago; however, in talking to them in real time, as if they were right in front of us.  I can understand the skepticism, but I think we are talking about conditions of quantum entanglement rather than improbable scientific accidents.  Until people explain to me how ancient people moved large rocks without machines, I will remain skeptical that we are examining the correct science for all conditions.  I think I have a pretty good idea what they are. However, just for fun for my upcoming birthday this year, we are planning to go ghost hunting as a family.  We purchased some paranormal equipment, including an EMF detector, a spirit box, and a voice recorder, designed to detect spirits that are otherwise unable to communicate.  There is a lot invisible to us, such as electricity and radio waves, that are flying around all over the place, interacting with us constantly.  Yet we use these things to advance our society.  So, when it comes to the spirit world, I think there are a lot of life forms roaming around without bodies, across time and space, that do not function according to our linear measure of time, and are interacting with us in dreams, through devices that can pick them up, and even through drug use and hallucinogenic enterprise.  Just because we haven’t figured out all those scientific methods of communication yet, I think Dolores Cannan, and many others, including the CIA, have been able to use remote viewing to learn things they otherwise wouldn’t and to shape events from a great distance without getting up out of their chair.  So yes, I believe the declassified story about the CIA discovering the Ark of the Covenant, and that its location was in Axum, Ethiopia. 

What gives strength to that story is a book I read several years ago by Graham Hancock, which is one of my all-time favorite books, The Sign and the Seal, published in 1992 and heavily inspired by the fictional adventures of Indiana Jones.  Graham Hancock was a beat writer for The Economist and Ethiopia was his territory and they had all these rumors there by the locals that the Jewish Ark was hidden there in Axum because the son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba had brought it there during his father’s lifetime, before the nations of the world moved against Israel to destroy it.  The story goes that Solomon wanted to preserve the Ark of the Covenant and the laws of Yahweh that were kept inside, the Ten Commandments, so he allowed his son and the Queen to hide them away with what is today a large contingent of Ethiopian Jews dedicated to protecting the Ark from the prying eyes of the world.  In his book, Graham Hancock conducted a tremendous amount of research that essentially led to the gates of a small church in Axum and a guard there who had given his life to protect the Ark from outsiders.  The guard there more or less displayed that at least he believed what he was guarding was the ancient Jewish relic, and he had radiation poisoning to prove it.  The guards at the Ark of Axum are elected to lifetime appointments by the town.  So, whoever gets the job gets it for life, and they typically become ill very quickly from their constant exposure to whatever it is they are guarding. When one dies, the next one is elected to a lifetime appointment, and they perform the service with a smile on their face, driven by the honor of it.  And they never leave their post. 

So to learn that the CIA had successfully confirmed through remote viewing that they discovered the Ark, not physically, not with their hands on it, but with the success of a telepathy practitioner, such as Delores Cannon was, I think only confirms what Graham Hancock, and many others have long said, that the Ark is in Axum Ethiopia and is still there to this day.  And I’ll go a little further as to the value of fantasy characters like Indiana Jones.  The value of those kinds of stories lies in getting people to think about such things, and if not for their popularity, Graham Hancock might have remained a beat writer and travel commentator for the rest of his life.  But because of Indiana Jones, the CIA was investigating the Ark, Graham Hancock wrote a book that changed his life, and many other people, and even now as there is a Trump administration declassifying many things, people are very excited to learn about what’s under the Giza plateau considering all this new news about mysterious objects under the Great Pyramid complex in Egypt, and this story about the Ark of the Covenant in Axum.  Fantasy fiction often drives us to scientific fact, and we are better off for the things we learn.  But as humans, we require some intellectual device that provokes us to ask questions we need to be asking; it’s how we acquire new information.  And there is still a lot we need to learn about the world, and I think the CIA has learned to do more with it than just view things remotely. 

A lot of times when you have a ghostly encounter, and a strange shadow man appears just outside your peripheral vision, I don’t always think it’s a ghost, but someone trying to interact with you, or spy on you from a remote viewing location.  And they might not even be living at the same time that you are.  They could be far in the past or way into the future, interacting with you through a dream, or a purposeful exploit of quantum entanglement.  And that these methods are scientific and can be used to communicate information just like a radio wave can now, or how electricity travels invisibly all around us, and we use it to power our entire civilization.  Even though those things are invisible to us, through our current senses, it doesn’t mean they aren’t real in and of themselves.  So, yes, I believe the CIA story, and I think there will be many more like it.  And I think it mainly because it confirms what Graham Hancock already figured out with hard reporting and boots on the ground regarding the actual location of The Ark of the Covenant and an adventure story that was inspired by Indiana Jones, but took on a life of its own that was even more interesting than the fictional account.  I’m not sure how much of the original Ark would be left, made out of wood and gold as it was.  It’s around 3,200 to 3,500 years old, and not much lasts that long, even when preserved.  However, I think what remains of it is in Axum, and the CIA confirmed this with a remote viewing method, which is exciting news.  However, it’s also just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what remains hidden from us using these same technological methods.  And the mysteries of science that we have yet to discover are still ahead of us, but have been seen through quantum entanglement, and it shows that we have a long way to go.

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The Solved Mystery of the Newark Holy Stones: It’s not the Lost Tribes of Israel who brought them to America; rather, the other way around

I’ve known about the Newark Holy Stones for quite a number of years, but like a lot of things that happened during the Covid lockdowns and attempts at the government to flat-out lie to people in ways only conspiracy theorists had ever thought possible, it has brought new light to the story of these unique artifacts that have rocked the archaeological world most violently at the start of it. One stone, which they call the Keystone, was found in a mound just outside of the Newark, Ohio complex, which has some of the most advanced geometry in ground effigies. The mathematics contained in them is similar to that of the Great Pyramids and other sites around the world that whisper of sophisticated knowledge of stars and how they relate to an earth that was undoubtedly round. It was found not very far into the surface, which led many to speculate that it was a Masonic plot of conspiracy to establish in the region their influence. After all, it is a Masonic emblem essentially well known for its rituals. What was most perplexing about the stone was written in ancient Hebrew references that were clearly Biblical. The biggest problem with that was the date of the mounds was older than the Bible, leading many to discuss that the Mound Builders may well have been the result of the Lost Tribes of Israel, which would have supported the Mormon movement that was brewing in America in 1860 when the stone was found. From the outset, the relic was rationalized as a hoax mainly by the Democrats who investigated it. These were the days of the radical Abraham Lincoln who wanted to end slavery, and it was Republicans who supported the idea that ancient Hebrews had found their way into North America somehow and were part of the Mound Building culture that was so mysterious. 

Then there was a real problem that occurred when another Holy Stone was found south of the Newark site in the Great Stone Mound situated along an old Indian trail, where legend indicated that a person of great personage was buried there and that each time a traveler had passed by, they should place a stone on the mound to commemorate that. By the 1800s, the 40- to 50-foot-tall pyramidal mound was covered from top to bottom with stones that would eventually be looted with more than 15,000 wagon loads to use the rocks for a local building project. Then when archaeological enthusiasts could get inside it with the stones removed in 1860, what they found at the bottom shocked the world and still does. It’s called the Decalogue Stone and was found in a little stone chest that was buried carefully with a skeleton well entombed. And in the little stone box was a carved stone with a picture of Moses and the Ten Commandments in the abbreviated form written all about them. This caused quite a stir around the world as the Ten Commandments couldn’t possibly have been in North America at any point before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, so immediately, there was a push from academia (mostly Democrats) to disregard these Holy Stones from Newark as nonsense and hoaxes. After all this time, they are still considered very controversial and reside authentically in the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum in Coshocton, Ohio, just to the north of the Newark Mound site as it is today. 

Lately, over the last several decades, there has been increasing hypothetical evidence that the lost continent of Atlantis was, in fact, in North America, not located in the Middle East, Africa, or Asia. Everything pointed to all cultures on Earth migrating out from the Americas. It was very advanced before the Ice Age, and during it, before everything was wiped out by the Younger Dryas cataclysm, which was a world-killer comet that struck around 12,000 years ago, suddenly ending the Ice Age and wiping away most of the life on Earth instantly, and melting massive amounts of glacial ice that increased the levels of the oceans with massive flooding and led to all the flood myths that so many cultures had from their pre-history. And it makes the most sense to me that with an advanced civilization in North America destroyed by the portion of the comet that hit central Michigan and carved out Saginaw Bay that only people far from the blast or high in the mountains during their global trade survived. And they took with them elements of their previous culture to re-populate the world starting over essentially. This makes much more sense if you view all civilizations from the point of view of the Vico Cycle rather than one continuous evolution. And this also explains why the mound builders of Ohio and the Mississippi Valley were so obsessed with the stars and alignments of Earth on the surface. This was clear to me after visiting the Stonehenge site. In Avebury, just north of Stonehenge, there are mounds like those seen in Miamisburg, Ohio, and other places. The evidence of a global culture influencing these constructions is obvious. And in America, also there were found the bones of very large people which showed signs of a lost race that history had wiped away. Digging into the mounds around Miamisburg, they found a skull and various skeletons that easily would fit over the face of a modern human. 

So getting back to the Newark Holy Stones, it is my belief that they are evidence of a pre-Biblical society only hinted at before being lost to the Vico Cycle and global cataclysm. We see evidence of the Vico Cycle, where the Biden administration wants to resort to a primitive society. If allowed to continue for the next several hundred years, all traces of modern human technology could be eroded away, and in just a few thousand years, even the biggest skyscrapers could be lost to history. Any society that was more than 10,000 years ago would be lost, which has likely been going on for far longer than that, and was the reason that so many who did survive the Younger Dryas extinction event built so much with land and stone, to preserve their culture in ways that paper and other organic materials couldn’t. The rate of degradation would at least allow future society to know that they lived. And looking at things understanding the Vico Cycle and world-killing cataclysms that happen much more often than people would like to realize, the seed for all civilization is in the Ten Commandments. One of the reasons that many still today think of the Decalogue Stone as being a hoax is that scholars say that no Jew would have written such a less-than-perfect version of the Ten Commandments. They would have written them correctly, or not at all, and the way that the Ten Commandments are written on the Decalogue Stone is crammed into every bit of surface on the stone. But they would be much more easily understood if these Ten Commandments were written well before the events at Mt. Sinai and the Exodus from Egypt. 

I have loved the Wolfram Von Eschenbach version of the quest for the Holy Grail told in his Parzival from around 1200 AD for many years and have always thought there was more to it. And recent studies have indicated that Eschenbach was a Knight’s Templer, a society of pre-Masonic heritage who actually wrote the book as a treasure map for the Lost Ark of the Covenant, which is still held in high regard and supposedly hidden in Axum, Ethiopia, behind a thin veil of political upheavals and death until the Masonic order can rebuild the Temple for the third time in Jerusalem. In that book, Eschenbach indicated that the Ark, which held the Ten Commandments, was actually the metaphor for the Grail, which he didn’t describe as the cup of Christ, but rather a Holy Stone. And that’s when I thought of the Newark Holy Stones with a fresh perspective. It looks like the Ten Commandments didn’t flow to us with the Lost Tribes of Isreal banished from the Holy Land and found their way somehow to America to work with Indians and build the mounds in Ohio. It looks like they never left and instead seeded the world with the broken knowledge of their lost civilization, which indeed migrated into Egypt and other spots in the Middle East and Asia. And the ingredients for a successful civilization were hastily carved on a stone to remind the buried beholder in that stone mound in Newark what would carry any society forward. And that is how we came to find the Decalogue Stone and why there are other such Holy Stones in America well before the Bible was ever written. And that is why they were never hoaxes. Instead, they were victims of the Vico Cycle, which many in power don’t want to admit to, so they’d rather pretend that they don’t exist rather than learn from history how not to repeat the same mistakes that have been made countless times in the past.  

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