Case file · High strangeness
The Parker expedition for the Ark
From 1909 to 1911 British officer Montagu Parker dug beneath Jerusalem's City of David, guided by a Finnish scholar's 'cipher' in the Book of Ezekiel, to find the Ark of the Covenant.
1909 CE · 31.77, 35.24 · status: claim
The account
Valter Juvelius said he had decoded the Ark's location. In April 1911 the team bribed guards and dug secretly beneath the Dome of the Rock; when discovered, riots broke out and Parker fled by yacht. The excavations did map Hezekiah's tunnel.
The sceptical view
The cipher was numerology; nothing was found.