"The Secret Government Warehouse" - AKA: The Resting Place of the Ark of the Covenent

This is the ONE movie legend (of sorts) that I have ALWAYS been fascinated with to an almost sickening degree.


Indiana Jones & The Raiders of the Lost Ark spoiler below for that person out there that hasn't seen the movie.*************











As those of you who have seen IJ & TROTLA, the movie ends with the Ark boxed in a generic crate and pushed to it's resting place at the middle of a huge government warehouse that, presumably, contained other "lost treasures" of history.

So, my question is this: Do you believe such a warehouse(s) exists? Do you think our government has a glorified storage shed that holds the treasures of our past either for study or for matters of "national security"?


Personally, I have to go yes. While I doubt that the warehouse is like the one in Indiana Jones, I do feel our government is too secretive to NOT have a place like this.

So, what do you think?

Jasn

I think that a warehouse doesexists, but I doubt it contains the Holy Ark. I always thought that the Ark was in Ethiopia. As to what the warehouse contains, I have no idea mabey the "Freemason Treasure" from that movie national treasure!

Almost certainly, they have to keep the tons of papers that they won’t release via access to information some where. But I don’t think its one large warehouse it’s probably a bunch of them spread out across the country.

What I'm really wondering about is where is the wreckage from Roswell and perhaps other crash sites being kept? Bear in mind that I think Bob Lazar is one of the biggest liars ever on account of his bs about element 115 so if anyone brings him up, I'm gonna scream.

They keep the real Bob Lazar in the warehouse! The one out and about is really an alien disinfo agent!

I guess that's what Fort Knox holds these days, instead of gold. Now it's filled with all the government's secrets....

I couldn't imagine what all they withold from us.

A_L

reply to post by another_lurker


Knox still has alot of gold as its one of the safer spots on the planet IMHO. However, could they store artifacts etc there? You bet and have in the past.

Also, the Smithsonian would be a likely candidate IMHO. Items could be hidden in plain sight desguised as something else entirely or in their vast wharehouses of nondescript boxes where they store all the stuff. I read that they only have what like 10% of the items they have on display at any given time

Hm.
Well, I have my own thoughts on the "Ark of the Covenant"....and that it probably isnt really an object.

As far as big huge wharehouses holding Govt secrets? Sure, I believe there are. Is it as organized as in the movie? Eh, probably not

reply to post by FredT


I agree with you that it is more then likely in plain site. Usually its the stuff right before our eyes that we dont see.

reply to post by greeneyedleo


You are probably right. All those "replica artifacts" floating around the museums.....Gotta love it.

A_L

I really do think the government has a LARGE area where they keep such things like ancient artifacts. It may be because if the artifact has some kind a special"power" or it can be used to futher some of their dark plots, yea they would have one. just look at los alamos

I've always assumed that it was the Smithsonian in the movie, seeing as how Indie walks right out of it on the stairs of the museum. I would agree that museums would be the best place to hide stuff like that. I know that the museum of Crete has an ultralight aircraft model that says Daedulus on it, but they aren't showing anyone.

reply to post by Scalamander


I recall in the British Museum my dad asked a curator how much they had in storage and the curator replied "as much is on public display and more".

FURTHERMORE

I recall how certain controversial artifacts have gotten either "mislabeled" or "lost" when going thru the cataloging process at the BM.

"In September 1872 a British engineer, Waynman Dixon, working in Egypt was requested by Piazzi Smyth, the Astronomer Royal of Scotland, to undertake for him some casual exploration inside the Great Pyramid [7]. It was around this time that Dixon discovered the openings of the two shafts on the south and north walls of the Queen's Chamber. In the horizontal section of the shafts that leads into the chamber, Dixon found three small relics: a small bronze hook; a portion of 'cedar-like' wood, and a granite ball [8]. The relics were packed in a wooden cigar box and taken to England by John Dixon, Waynman's older brother, also an engineer. They were mailed to Piazzi Smyth who recorded them in his diary, then returned to John Dixon who eventually arranged for the publications of articles and drawings of the relics for the science journal Nature and the popular London paper The Graphic [9]. The 'Dixon Relics' then mysteriously disappeared. Astonishingly, although the discovery of the shafts of the Queen's Chamber by Waynman Dixon was reported by Flinders-Petrie in 1881 and by Dr. I.E.S. Edwards in 1946 and through the years by numerous other pyramid specialists, the 'Dixon' relics were never mentioned and their existence apparently forgotten [10]. The only person, as far as I can make out, who mentioned these relics after they were published in December 1872 in Nature and The Graphic was the astronomer Piazzi Smyth (see below).

Here is, in fact, what actually happened to the relics after December 1872: exactly a century later, in 1972, a certain Mrs. Elizabeth Porteous living in Hounslow near London, was reminded (apparently by the excitement generated by the Tutankhamun Exhibition at the time) that her great grandfather, John Dixon, had left in the family a cigar box with relics inside them found in the Great Pyramid which she had inherited in 1970, after the death of her father. Mrs. Porteous then took the relics, still in the original cigar box, to the British Museum. They were registered by Mr. Ian Shore, then the assistant of Dr. I.E.S. Edwards, the curator of the Egyptian Antiquities Department. However, probably because of the distraction caused by the Tutankhamun Exhibition, the Dixon Relics were stored and forgotten. In September 1993, having come across a comment by Piazzi Smyth in one of his books [11], I decided to find out where the Dixon Relics were. I contacted Dr. I.E.S. Edwards (then retired at Oxford) and also Dr. Carol Andrews and Dr. A.J. Spencer at the British Museum, but neither seemed to have heard of these relics. Eventually, with the help of Dr. Mary Bruck, the biographer of Piazzi Smyth [12], I traced Piazzi Smyth's personal diary at the Edinburgh Observatory and found his entry on the relics dated 26 November 1872, as well as private letters he had received from John Dixon at the time. Through these documents I then traced the articles published in Nature and The Graphic. While still searching for the relics, it was recalled that it was John Dixon who, in 1872-6, had arranged for the transport of the Thotmoses III obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle) to London's Victoria Embankment and, more importantly, that underneath its pedestal Dixon had ceremoniously embedded various relics including a cigar box! Naturally many of us began to suspect that this item might have been the very same cigar box which contained the ancient relics found in the shafts of the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. Fortunately this was not to be the case. I decided at that stage of the search to publish a full page article in the British newspaper, The Independent [13], in the hope that someone might remember the whereabouts of the Dixon Relics. The ploy worked. Ian Shore, who had registered the relics back in 1972 at the British Museum, read the article and remembered them being donated by Mrs. Porteous. He promptly informed Dr. Edwards who in turn contacted Dr. Vivian Davies, the curator of the Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum. A search was called and the relics were 're-discovered' at the British Museum in the second week of December 1993 [14]. Unfortunately the small piece of 'cedar-like' wood was missing, and thus no Carbon 14 dating was possible. The relics are now displayed at the British Museum's Egyptian section."

OK, so we don't have any "proof" of foul play, but I still do think this happening was odd.

robertbauval.co.uk...

[edit on 25-10-2007 by uberarcanist]

All governments have warehouses for just about everything. I remember when I was in the boy scouts we camped at an old navy base site that still had warehouses from ww2. There were broken down old hulks of ww2 planes and 3 large buildings that held all kinds of crap.

After seeing the movie my science project, we decided to sneak into the place and find out what was “really” there. Guess what! Just a bunch of more junk from the ww2 era. Strangely though we did find all kinds of boxes of new hammers and other tools. Weird. There wasn’t even a guard on duty. I guess they were hoping that someone would steal the stuff just so that they could get rid of it. We didn’t take anything though, I mean we were boy scouts after all. We just wanted to know what was there.