Jim Turner’s website, apocalypseisland.com, shows a satellite image of Robinson Crusoe Island (aka Más a Tierra, aka Juan Fernandez island) about 400 miles wnw of Santiago, Chile.

I agree with Pat. I just watched this special on History and it would be better explained as “Hack archeologist tries to make himself famous and drags along some other guy”. Maybe that was too long of a name… Anyhow they spend the whole time talking about the significance of what this “monument” would be and how amazing it is. Then they show the “monument” and it is just a big ass pile of rocks. I guess you could stretch it into being a jaguar behind an Ancient Mayan ruler, but you might need a lot of LSD to get that far. History is just trying to hard to make these “THE END IS COMING IN 2012!!!” specials that maybe they didn’t do enough background research on this one. Total crap.

I don’t know. We tend to dismiss ancient cultures as savages and so on. There are greater things in heaven and earth than we know of. Modern science tends to confirm that ie string theory, the god partical & what have you. The interesting aspect is that this time is denoted by several unrelated civilizations to be something significant. Based on the way things are going in the world, I personally can’t dismiss this all as coincidence. I know that there have been many times in history that it would seem like the end is near, but at 47 I have never seen things this scary.

I tend to agree with the above posters after seeing the show on the History channel. I mean are we really to believe the mayans made it that far and then made a monument there which looks more like weather beaten rock? James you stated about how we think of them as savages and then their theories are proved to be true, ok these are people that commited scarafices believing that would make the gods happy, more like maybe a few were like the einstien of their era and that is why we see sense in it, also the god particle which is a theory also not a proven fact.

I watched “Apocalypse Island” this a.m. and would have to say it is a major let down. As many have already stated, the first two thirds of the documentary are spent on Pat and Jeff getting to the island. After getting to the island and climbing the ‘monument’, all you come away with is “it needs further archeological investigation….”. This mound of rock is suppose to be the image of a lost Myan king with a jaquar behind him. Yeah, I could see that very clearly, not…. If some sculture was there, it has long been lost to time and the elements.

As for me, maybe the Sun, Venus, and the center of the universe will come into alignment on the Fall Equinox and something will happen; perhaps ascending us all into the age of Aquarius??? However, it may just turn out to be another day here on Earth….

There are no photos showing the rock formations are man made because there is no evidence they are man made. This is an “Emperor’s New Clothes” farce, only those who really, really want to see Mayan sculpture in these lumps of rock will see it. Whether you call it a hoax, a scam, a sham, or disinformation, this was a shameful ruse which wasted two hours for thousands of people.

Never mind that Robinson Crusoe Island is not in the middle of the Pacific but in the far southeast corner, is not uninhabited, is not inaccessible, but is well traveled with tourist trails over the island, including one that goes to the immediate vicinity of the rocks and a campsite with permanent buildings there. It is 3500 miles from Guatemala and the Mayans. Iberia to the Bahamas (the voyage of Columbus) is only 4000. So the Mayans sent hundreds of workmen 3500 miles in canoes to work for years to create sculpture which would not be seen for hundreds of years. How would they know of the existence of the Juan Fernandez Islands? Told by Polynesians from Easter Island? Or by the Ancient Aliens of Erich von Däniken?

Then what about that two sided figure, a snail viewed from the south and a jaguar viewed from the north. There are such two sided sculptures in the world, Margaretta and Mephistopheles in the Salar Jung museum are very impressive.
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/andhra/sjung.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_Jung_Museum
But I do not think the Mayans or other natives of Mesoamerica ever carved such. Then the jaguar seems to have collapsed, it no longer has the space under its chin or between its front and back legs.
But the snail’s back does not have corresponding collapses.

There is nothing whatsoever in either the program or Turner’s website to make me think either that those rock outcroppings are man-made or that any Native Americans reached these islands before Juan Fernandez discovered them. Even Jeff Salz, who accompanied Turner, does not defend the Mayan origin of the rock formations. In his response of January 14, he states “all I can say is that at no point and at no place on/near the “monument” was I able to detect any historical presence of humans.” http://jeffsalz.wordpress…2009/11/14/156/#comments

Archeologists say there were no humans on these islands before the Spanish discovery. http://palaeoworks.anu.ed…/pubs/Andersonetal02.pdf

I agree! I just watched this and he talks about hoping to find the guys burial site here, he doesn’t even look! And I kept wondering why didn’t he go earlier so he had more time? Now I find out it’s inhabitable? He faked it all to seem like no one was there and he had such little time and had to make it all by himself. Whatever, what a joke. The world isn’t ending in 2012 anyway. Sure, something celestial may happen but I do not believe the world and life as we know it will change so much that specific day.

Anyway, this program is a fraud, I too believe. All he had to do was go sooner and ride the ferry or a plane. Why he thought he had to hitch a ride on some boat is beyond me. Oh I know, to make it seem like it was more of a hidden secret. Then he gets there after all that, sits on it for a few hours then leaves. Wiskey Tango Foxtrot!