{"id":3882,"date":"2010-06-11T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T09:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/scott-stones\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:22:34","slug":"scott-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/scott-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The<\/strong> <strong>S<\/strong><strong>cott<\/strong><strong> S<\/strong><strong>tones <\/strong>were discovered in 1997 submerged off the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bahamas\/\">Bahamas<\/a> and touted as remnants of Plato\u2019s Atlantis.This in the same area where the so-called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bimini-roadwall\/\">Bimini Road<\/a>\u2019 was discovered<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Through a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/scottstones.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27837\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/scottstones-300x190.png\" alt=\"scottstones\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/scottstones-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/scottstones.png 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>series of press releases<sup>(a)\u00a0<\/sup> from Aaron DuVal, claims of dramatic discoveries were made, but never substantiated. Arrangements, by writers Christopher Dunn and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/collins-andrew\/\">Andrew Collins<\/a>, to view the \u2018stones\u2019 were initially agreed to, but eventually they came to nothing<sup>(c)<\/sup>. The most rational explanation on offer so far is that these stones are in fact jettisoned ballast. It would be prudent to consider the whole story as a badly organised <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hoaxes\/\">hoax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/majestic64.tripod.com\/index2\/pleiades\/atlantis\/scottstones2.html\">http:\/\/majestic64.tripod.com\/index2\/pleiades\/atlantis\/scottstones2.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crystalinks.com\/biminiroad.html\">http:\/\/www.crystalinks.com\/biminiroad.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230205072010\/https:\/www.andrewcollins.com\/page\/articles\/stones.htm\">In Search Of The Stones Of Atlantis (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scott Stones were discovered in 1997 submerged off the Bahamas and touted as remnants of Plato\u2019s Atlantis.This in the same area where the so-called \u2018Bimini Road\u2019 was discovered(b). Through a series of press releases(a)\u00a0 from Aaron DuVal, claims of dramatic discoveries were made, but never substantiated. Arrangements, by writers Christopher Dunn and Andrew Collins, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,137,612,4037,4085],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-collins","tag-bahamas","tag-christopher-dunn","tag-hoax","tag-the-scott-stones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64215,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/64215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}