The Mysterious Ica Stones of Peru

In Peru in the 1960’s Dr. Javier Cabrera was given a most unusual stone as a gift. Etched into the stone was the clear depiction of what Dr. Cabrera knew to be an extinct species of fish.

Dr. Cabrera questioned the uneducated farmer who had given him the stone and the farmer told Dr. Cabrera he had found the stone in a cave and that there were many more. Dr. Cabrera offered to pay the farmer for more of these stones if the farmer could locate them again.

Dr. Cabrera eventually accrued more than 15,000 stones and all of them were carved and etched with seemingly impossible depictions. Made from andesite, an igneous volcanic rock, the stones ranged in size from baseballs to boulders.

Reportedly covered in a layer of natural oxidation, tests from German laboratories allegedly confirmed the engravings were very ancient due to the patina encasing the stones and their carvings.

The etchings on the stones depict extinct animals, complex surgical procedures, images of earth as seen from above (which supposedly displays Atlantis and Lemuria) that portrays earth as it would have appeared 13 million years ago. The stones are also reported to accurately display stars, constellations, planets and men interacting with known, extinct species of dinosaurs.

Due to Peruvian law and its strict rules on the selling of anything from antiquity, the farmer was investigated. Because of the intense scrutiny, and allegedly because he did not want to get arrested, the farmer changed his story and said he himself had made the stones.

To account for the oxidation and patina on the stones the farmer said he had unnaturally aged them by baking them in cow dung.

Dr. Cabrera, a physician by trade, did not believe the farmers new story and gradually taught himself the basics of archaeology and geology. He even opened a private museum so others could view the stones.

Dr. Cabrera continued to study the stones for 30 years and before his death in 2001 he postulated a theory on the stones and who created them.

He posited that an extraterrestrial race from the Pleiades came to earth in an attempt to colonize it with their own civilization.

Dr. Cabrera claimed earth was much different when the extraterrestrials arrived and that they tried to manipulate the weather, etc. to make it more hospitable. He theorized their attempts went awry and that they simply left.

In later years the farmer was allegedly arrested for continuing to sell the stones and he again told authorities they were fakes. Interestingly the farmer did admit some of the stones were not manufactured by him.

Skeptics against the hoax theory claim that for an illiterate farmer to have created the stones he would have had to have extensive knowledge in a wide variety of fields.

They argue that for one man to make the 15,000 and more stones at a rate of one a day, seven days a week for 365 days a year it would take over 40 years to complete them.

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