Author
Shannon Skaer
One of my favorite books as a kid was The World’s Last Mysteries by Reader’s Digest. It chronicled “ancient civilizations, archaeological discoveries, unexplained catastrophes, and other mysteries from man’s past.” Or, in other words, exactly the kind of thing I geek out over. As an author of historical and science fiction, I enjoy exploring forgotten peoples and vanished places from a Christian worldview informed by creation science.
Rules: no paranormal. No aliens, Bigfoot, or Nephilim. Yes to dinosaurs, DNA analysis and improbable possibilities.
Ancient Civilizations
A post-apocalyptic one-world government rises from the wilderness. This is the story of the Tower of Babel.
Improbable Possibilites
What if an antediluvian civilization left the oldest archeological site of all on the moon?
Love in the Bones – The Story of the Windover People
Old bones can teach us a lot, but they have their limits. You can’t look at someone’s bones and deduce that he had a laugh like a sock going through a vacuum hose, for instance. Bones can only tell the cold facts of age, sex, and physical trauma; childbirth, arthritis, malnutrition and the like. Or so I thought. I…
The Last Man on Earth – The Story of Henderson Island
This is the story of the last person on earth, as told by a trash pile left on Henderson Island. Of course it’s a story from ancient history, so you and I know he wasn’t actually the last person, but he didn’t know that. He had every reason to believe he was the only human left, and he…
The Mysterious Lake of Human Bones in Remote India
In 1942, a forest ranger discovered a lake full of human bones high in the Himalayans. And when I say Roopkund Lake is full of human bones—the remains of around three hundred people rest in the lake water. The area is remote. Before a lake packed with dead folks was discovered, the only people who…
Man Chasing Chicken Discovers Ancient Underground City
In 1963, a man in Derinkuyu, Turkey, couldn’t keep his chickens from disappearing. The chickens were kept in an apparently safe location; his basement. No wild animals, no place for the feathered beasts to hide, right? So where did they go? One day he entered the basement in time to see a fluffy feathered rear…
Reading Ancient Mail isn’t Snooping, Right?
Late in the fall of 1896, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, scholars fresh from Oxford took the steamer to Cairo. They wanted to become Famous Archaeologists during a period when the British were fascinated by ancient Egyptian artifacts. So fascinated that said artifacts were disappearing from Egypt like sliced grapes from a toddler’s plate. They decided to dig…
Terra Preta – The Extraordinary Potting Soil of the Ancient Amazonians
When you think about ancient technology, how often does potting soil come to mind? Well, it should. The soil of the Amazon is generally poor, acidic, and leaches nutrients like a sieve. Growing food there is a nightmare—unless you happen upon, or go looking for, some of the intensely fertile, beautiful black gold put there…