Case file · High strangeness
Fernand Navarra's 'ark wood'
French industrialist Fernand Navarra said he cut a piece of hand-tooled wood from a glacier crevasse on Mount Ararat in 1955 and brought it home as ark timber.
1955 CE · 39.70, 44.30 · status: explained
The account
He published the find in 'J'ai trouvé l'Arche de Noé' and returned in 1969 with the SEARCH foundation, collecting more wood.
The sceptical view
Radiocarbon tests by several labs dated the wood to roughly 650–800 AD, consistent with medieval structures on the mountain.