Knights Templar, the Green Jar and the Scroll That Changes Everything | Basement #006: Scott Wolter
3/9/20263 hr 23 min
Scott Wolter, a forensic geologist, has spent 25 years following a trail of physical evidence — rocks, runes, bones, and buried artifacts — that leads somewhere most historians refuse to go.
It starts with a stone pulled from a Minnesota farm field in 1898 and ends with a sealed jar dug up from the Adirondack wilderness last August.
What's inside connects the Knights Templar, the Founding Fathers, the Talpiot Tomb in Jerusalem, and a scroll that may be the most significant document ever recovered.
Scott doesn't speculate. He brings receipts. And after 25 years of following this trail, he's...
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First 90 secondsAJ Gentile· Host0:00
Okay, I'm excited about this one. We're going deep with Scott Wolter, forensic geologist, TV host, and one of the most controversial researchers in America. Scott made his name by solving murders with rocks, using geological evidence to date concrete and crack cold cases. But then he applied those same scientific methods to the Kensington Runestone, and everything changed. His research led him down a path that started with medieval runes, moved through knights' Templar treasures hidden in North America, and ended up somewhere nobody expected, in a little green jar. Scott's newest book just dropped, The Greatest Templar Tale Never Told, and the story he tells me today about the green jar, it's gonna challenge everything you think you know about history, religion, and who we really are. This conversation gets heavy, and I mean really heavy. Some people are gonna be offended, but that's not Scott's intention. I think we should hear him out. Let's go down to the basement. [upbeat music] Scott, welcome to the basement. Uh, before we get to the fun stuff, can you tell us how your TV, 'cause we all know you from TV, how your TV journey started right here in Las Vegas with a murder case?
Scott Wolter· Guest1:12
Yeah. Yeah, um, [laughs] you've done your homework. Good for you. [laughs] Well, um, yeah, you know, and, and, you know, I do material forensics for a living. I run a, a materials forensic laboratory. Uh, been doing the work since 1985,