How did that get in there?

Ancient Spark Plug: Anomaly

By: Heather N Gibson

A modern day spark plug found in a Geode that is 500,000 years old! Impossible?

"Now, I make a point of never having any prejudices, and of following docilely wherever fact may lead me..." (Sherlock Holmes, The Reigate Puzzle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Cut Geode X-ray photo of the left half taken from the side. X-ray image of the left half taken from the top. X-ray photo of the right half taken from the top. X-ray image of the right side taken from the side.

Geodes look like ordinary stones. However, when cut open they often house crystals or mineral deposits. Geodes carefully cut in half are highly coveted by rock collectors around the world.

In 1961 Virginia Maxey, Wally Lane and Mike Mikesell, co-owners of the LM&V Rockhounds Gem and Gift shop in Olancha, Calif. went rock hunting in the Coso Mountains. Near the summit of a 4,300 ft. peak they found a geode that challenged the history of mankind.

Mike Mikeshell ruined a diamond saw blade cutting into the fossil encrusted geode. No one was prepared for what they found. In the middle of the geode was a metal core, about .08 inch (2 millimeters) in diameter. Enclosing a seemingly ceramic or porcelain collar that encased a hexagonal sleeve carved out of wood that now seemed to be petrified. All of this was enclosed in a geode made up of hardened clay, pebbles, bits of fossil shell and "two non-magnetic metallic objects resembling a nail and a washer. " A small sliver of copper indicated that the ceramic and wood may have once been separated by a copper sleeve.

Upon examining X-ray photographs taken of the object, Paul Willis, editor of INFO journal noticed the similarities between this object and a modern day spark plug.

Note: The object was thoroughly studied, however, there are no records of any named professional scientist or organization.