Discovering Zarahemla in Montrose.

Let’s make a video that talks more about our efforts to discover Zarahemla in Montrose. The video would be 30 – 40 minutes. In the production of this video, Mike Stahlman should play the leading role. At the American Heritage Center on Thursday night Mike gave an excellent presentation in Independence, Missouri. To prepare this outline, we drew inspiration from his presentation. We spoke with Mike Stahlman, Ryan Sorensen, Mike LaFontaine, and Adam Sheffield yesterday.

The video would begin with a discussion of how our core drilling machine allows us to uncover what lies beneath the ancient city of Zarahemla. We would start the filming in Independence where Mike lives and where the core drilling machine and GPS Rover Rod are located. As part of our efforts to find evidence of ancient habitation at Zarahemla, Ryan said he is ready to travel to Independence to meet Mike and make a five-minute video explaining how core drilling works.

SENSYS magnetometry scans will be reviewed for possible fire pits as indicators of ancient civilizations in Zarahemla. These scans cost about $40,000 plus 2,000 man-hours. The core drilling machine cost us $5,000. We spent $18,000 on the GPS Rover Rod. The system can locate exact locations based on the data created by the SENSYS scans we made nearly two years ago. As with our scans, the accuracy of our GPS Rover Rod is +/- 0.25 inches. In the first part of our video, we discuss what we have already done. Let’s not forget what we have done allows us to refocus our efforts on the discovery of ancient activity in the ground of Zarahemla.

In this first phase of our search, we have spent about $110,000, assuming $20 per hour of labor. During the first part of our video, we will review what we have accomplished what we intend to do.

During the second part of the video, we will explain how the flow of surface water concentrates ash and soot into pools in low areas that have a layer of clay as a holding material. We know that the City of Zarahemla burned at the time of the death of Christ. We also expect that there was a burning of the city in AD 320 during the Nephite evacuation of the city. As a result of the burning of the city, soot and ash were produced. These carbon-based materials would have moved with the surface water in streams coming from rain and melting of snow. These materials need to be located in the ground. Core drilling will help us accomplish this task.

We expect that clay layers will be visible in the cores as layers of carbon settle on top of the clay layers. Hopefully, we will be able to recover more samples that we can test with Carbon-14 dating.

The third part of our video will deal with the LiDAR imaging that shows the location of earthworks that are on the west side of Zarahemla. We know that there are many miles of massive earthworks. Many of these works are easily seen from the ground.

By taking cores of the burns, we can discover what materials and layers the Nephites used to protect themselves from the Lamanites. I think that we should identify the burns and take core samples. We explain in our video what we are doing. Our video would show how our LiDAR scans correlate with actual terrain features on the ground.

Throughout our video, we will share what we have already accomplished and what we are doing now. As serious as anyone has been, we will create the video to demonstrate our dedication to finding the truth that lies beneath the ground and links us to Zarahemla’s past.

The video will conclude with a discussion of how Phoenicia is a connection to Bible stories and how core samples and scientific scans link us to Zarahemla.

Who else is doing what we are? We need the help of many people to do this great work. In this historic effort, we invite all good people to join us.

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