The Enigmatist: Book I - The Runic Mysteries

Beginning in the late 1800s, unsuspecting Americans began discovering random stones inscribed with Viking runes- artifacts which defied conventional wisdom, for not only were they found along the Atlantic coast but in rural areas over a thousand miles inland. Most academics have long dismissed these anomalies as nothing more than elaborate hoaxes, however over the years there has developed an entrenched cadre of believers convinced of their authenticity and an alternative view of history which suggested the interior of the North American continent had been explored many hundreds of years before Columbus was born. Over the decades a cottage industry of books, movies, documentaries have increased in popularity- all confident that conventional historians and their traditional methods have gotten it all wrong. Academics have countered with simple requests for verifiable proof. The result has been a century-long stalemate; one side believing in the stones’ veracity, the other suspecting the finds are nothing more than well-executed hoaxes. Neither side however has ever considered a third option; that they are neither....