The Basement: Scott Wolter | Knights Templar, the Green Jar and the Scroll That Changes Everything

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The Why Files

Documentary, Science Fiction, Life Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Fiction

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 203 minutes

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Scott Wolter, a forensic geologist, has spent 25 years following a trail of physical evidence — rocks, runes, bones, and buried artifacts — that leads somewhere most historians refuse to go. It starts with a stone pulled from a Minnesota farm field in 1898 and ends with a sealed jar dug up from the Adirondack wilderness last August. What's inside connects the Knights Templar, the Founding Fathers, the Talpiot Tomb in Jerusalem, and a scroll that may be the most significant document ever recovered. Scott doesn't speculate. He brings receipts. And after 25 years of following this trail, he's ready to share what he found — and what it means for everything we think we know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt4pT6PpCoQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.0	We're going deep with Scott Walter,
0:39.7	forensic geologist, TV host,
0:42.1	and one of the most controversial researchers in America.
0:45.3	Scott made his name by solving murders with rocks,
0:48.0	using geological evidence to date concrete and crack cold cases.
0:52.5	But then he applied those same scientific methods to the Kensington Rune Stone, and everything
0:57.4	changed.
0:58.5	His research led him down a path that started with medieval runes, moved through Knight's
1:03.0	temporary treasures hidden in North America, and ended up somewhere nobody expected, in a
1:08.1	little green jar.
1:09.6	Scott's newest book just dropped, the greatest
1:11.5	Templar tale never told. And the story he tells me today about the green jar? It's going to
1:17.2	challenge everything you think you know about history, religion, and who we really are.
1:21.9	This conversation gets heavy, and I mean really heavy. Some people are going to be offended,
1:26.9	but that's not Scott's intention.
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