Five Interesting Out-Of-Place Artifacts

Have you heard of out-of-place artifacts? Oopart, as it’s commonly called, represents dozens of prehistoric items found in different places around the world that appear to be technologically advanced, unlike the times in which they were made. Here are some interesting out-of-place artifacts, and they remain interesting whether they are fake or misinterpreted, misdated, or don’t come with any reasonable explanation.

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500,000 year old spark plug

In 1961, three individuals were searching for geodes for their gem and gift shop in California when they stumbled on what seemed to be a spark plug encased in a geode. The device was dated at 500,000 years or older. Armed with x-rays and an artist’s sketch of the artifact, critics of the claim thought it was truly a modern spark plug housed in a quick-forming concretion instead of a geode.

Mysterious blue stone

Could an odd kind of blue stone, discovered in 1990 by archeologist Angelo Pitoni in Sierra Leone, be produced by an unknown yet highly advanced civilization lost in time?

300 million-year-old screw

Clearly visible in the head and nut, the screw was estimated to be 300 to 320 million years old. It was initially thought to be in a farm machine but turned out from further examination was firmly fixed in the rock. It was ruled out by x-ray to be a fossil Crinoidea trunk, as it’s bigger than the specimens of marine creatures.

Ancient bell-shaped metal vase embedded in 15 feet of sedimentary rock

In 1851, a Scientific American article outlined the discovery of an object resembling a silver-zinc vase, inlaid with fine silver and embedded within 15 feet of solid sedimentary rock. It’s supposedly millions of years old.

Prehistoric wall near Bahamas 

Stones submerged off the Bahamas coast were believed to be a man-made wall created some 10,000 to 20,000 years old. It’s a multi-tiered structure with prop stones that appeared to be positioned there by human hands.

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