David Hatcher Childress - The Crystal Skulls: Astonishing Portals to Mans Past

THE
CRYSTAL
SKULLS

Astonishing Portals
To Mans Past

David Hatcher Childress
and
Stephen S. Mehler

Other Books by David Hatcher Childress:

THE MYSTERY OF THE OLMECS
PIRATES AND THE LOST TEMPLAR FLEET
TECHNOLOGY OF THE GODS
A HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO ARMAGEDDON
LOST CONTINENTS & THE HOLLOW EARTH
ATLANTIS & THE POWER SYSTEM OF THE GODS
LOST CITIES OF NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA
LOST CITIES OF CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA & INDIA
LOST CITIES & ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF AFRICA & ARABIA
LOST CITIES & ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF SOUTH AMERICA
LOST CITIES OF ANCIENT LEMURIA & THE PACIFIC
LOST CITIES OF ATLANTIS, ANCIENT EUROPE & THE MEDITERRANEAN

Other Books by Stephen S. Mehler:

THE LAND OF OSIRIS
FROM LIGHT INTO DARKNESS

THE
CRYSTAL
SKULLS

David Hatcher Childress
and
Stephen S. Mehler

Adventures Unlimited Press

The Crystal Skulls

Copyright 2008
by David Hatcher Childress
and Stephen S. Mehler

ISBN 10: 1-931882-76-2
ISBN 13: 978-1-931882-76-7

All Rights Reserved

Published by:
Adventures Unlimited Press
One Adventure Place
Kempton, Illinois 60946 USA

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THE
CRYSTAL
SKULLS

Astonishing Portals
To Mans Past

Dedicated to F.R. Nick Nocerino and Francoise Beaudoin.

The authors would like to thank Marcel Vogel, Michael Campbell, Theresa Crater, Khrys Nocerino and family, JoAnn and Carl Parks and Max, Joseph and Marylee Swanson, Richard Shafsky, Andrea Skipper and NBC News, John Zamora, Francisco Reyes, Jim Honey, Jennifer Bolm and everyone else who has helped with this book.

The British Museum Crystal Skull. The postcard of this crystal skull is the most poular postcard sold at the museum giftshop, although the crystal skull has been removed from display because of questions about its authenticity.

The Paris Museum Crystal Skull. It is smaller than a human head and is classified as Aztec in origin. It is thought to have adorned the end of a staff.

PART ONE:

By David Hatcher Childress

Chapter 1

Introduction

Thirteen Heavens of Decreasing Choice

Nine Hells of Increasing Doom

And the Tree of Life shall blossom

With a fruit never before Known in Creation

Tony Shearer, Quetzalcoatl: Lord of the Dawn

It was years ago that I first went to the lost city of Lubaantun. In 1991 I was traveling in Guatemala and Honduras, and decided to take a side excursion into Belize, the former British Honduras. The roads in the northern Peten jungle of Guatemala, where I had been hanging out with rubber-chickle gatherers known as chicleros, were notoriously bad. Crossing into Belize, a smaller, and wealthier country than Guatemala, I was impressed by the newly paved roads, the many shops, and the good restaurants.

My goal in coming to Belize was to examine some of the ancient ruins, especially the curious city of Lubaantun, the site where the famous Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull was allegedly found. This journey was to be the beginning of a lifelong fascination with the world of crystal skulls, ancient artifacts and Mesoamerican ruins.

On that trip, I journeyed by bus to Belize City, and then south to Punta Gorda where access to the lost city of Lubaantun could be gained. Now over fifteen years have passed, and during that time I have met several times with Anna Mitchell-Hedges and examined the famous Mitchell-Hedges skull myself.

Anna first brought the skull to the World Explorers Club in Kempton in 1995 from her home in Kitchener, Ontario with my old friend Jim Honey. Examining the skull on the billiard table in the clubhouse, I was amazed at the clarity of the quartz crystal used in the skull, and the fact that the skull had a moveable jawbone. Knowing that the skull had been at the center of so much psychic activity was eerie. We took photos of the skull, with and without Anna, and marveled over it for a few hours.

Then it was time for Anna and the skull to leave. She packed it up in a light blue pillbox hat carrier that contained the skull nicely. With a few snaps, the skull was secured in the hatbox and Anna was gone, driving back east.

After she and the skull had left I was cleaning up the clubhouse, and noticed that our arcade video game, a version of Pacman, had been left on for the afternoon. I stared at the game. It was completely frozenthe screen had blanked out during the skulls visit, something that it had never done before.

There was no doubt in my mind that the crystal skull had done this to the video game. I turned the arcade video game off, and then back on. It came back life as if nothing had happened, and worked perfectly afterward.

I sat down for a second and pondered the event. How could the crystal skull have done this? Was it just a coincidence? Had some electronic signal or field from the skull affected the quartz electronics in the video game? Something like that had certainly happened. My fascination with crystal skulls deepened.

Like my co-author Stephen S. Mehler, I own crystal skulls, though his collection is far larger. My skulls are only a few inches high, are made of relatively clear quartz crystal and look like small, classic Aztec skulls. I have seen skulls nearly identical to them in the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, and other museums, but mine are not ancient.

They were probably carved in the last ten or twenty years, most likely out of Brazilian quartz crystal. I bought one in Peru, and another near Santa Fe, New Mexico. My crystal skulls do not have names (yet, anyway).

As the reader will discover throughout this book, there are genuine enigmas associated with crystal skulls, and many widely varying claims. Some claims seem outlandish, while others would seem to make sensebut arent necessarily true either! Studies of crystal skulls run from exacting scientific testing and examinations to bizarre psychic readings that could never possibly be proven. Much of the material on crystal skulls may be fabricated or deceptive, and the age and origins of the objects obscuredbut one thing is for certain: crystal skulls are real!

Quartz is the second most abundant mineral on the Earth, after feldspsar, and has been found in meteors. It is a large component of sand and sandstone, and is part of almost every rock, be it igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary. It is the main mineral in most gemstones, including citrine, jasper and agate. Pure quartz is colorless, but traces of other minerals will color quartz, making it white, rose, smoky, milky, or a purplish-amethyst. Amethyst quartz is colored purple by the element Lithium, the same Lithium used to treat persons who are bi-polar or manic-depressive.