We have recently discovered from the aerial blueprint photographic images of the area in and around the Missouri Mystery Mound a site we believe to be a possible archaeological location. I have sent the images to several investigators in the past month and will have a report from them in the near future. As we have maintained many times in the past, you can not see many of the unusual formations from ground level but when you view them from the air you can ascertain structure and form. Last month we detailed the location of a possible collapsed pyramid mound at the MMM and its structure and form. We believe this new discovery is related to the pyramid mound and also to the MMM itself. What caught our attention about this site was the many contours that seem to be man-made and the angles and shapes that appear inside this site.
When you view the photographs on the web site in the Jan. 2004 Update you will see how excited we are about this site and the possiblities it may have for solving the riddle that is the Missouri Mystery Mound. There is also and unusual mound in front of this site but I do not believe it is an indian mound but something quite different. You can see a picture of this mound if you go to the Oct Trip Update 2003 and judge for yourself. The site itself is located inside the larger terraform land images we call the MARTIAN FACE. It is located at what would be the temple of the Face and it is fronted on the south side by a large pasture that we did not have time to explore on our last expedition. We plan a major trip in April that we will invite as many people as are interested to join in. We will of course go back before then but only for brief visit. There are too many areas to explore and check out to do it justice in such a short time.
We still have not found all the caves that are supposed to be in this area and that will be a priority with The Motley Crew. We will be looking for a cave system we believe to be connected to the collapsed pyramid mound hinted at by the ground depressions in the area and the fact that if this mound did collapse as we believe than it was probably during the GREAT NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE in the 1800's. It is imperative that we find the cave system if we are to located the HALL OF RECORDS that has eluded us. This area is noted for its many limestone caves. Many of these are undiscovered and many are long forgotten by the hill people who settled this part of the Ozarks.
I wish everyone to go to the web site www.missourimysterymound.com and view the two updates COLLAPSED MOUND NOV 2003 AND POSSIBLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE JAN 2004 and judge for themselves. It will be well worth your time and there are many other areas of the site that have information that would be of interest to the archaeologically minded individual. Just when we think we have run out of areas to explore we make a new discovery and that is what makes the MISSOURI MYSTERY MOUND so much fun.
Charles Teague
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