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The crystal skull is an ancient Mesoamerican source of controversy and mystery. Many crystal skulls are produced every year in places like Germany, China, Brazil, and many more. There are many crystal skull but there are also rare ones that attract Archeologist, Spiritualist, Scientist, and museums to be experimented, researched about or to be display.

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Crystal skulls are human skull shaped hard stone sculptures. Originally crystal skulls are made of clear or milky white quartz or it can be named a rock crystal.

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In this image it demonstrates three different crystal skulls. The skull in the middle is a look alike to the original crystal skull. The skull to the left is a black crystal skull, and the one on the right is a blue and white coloured skull.

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In this video Drunvalo Melchizedek talks about his opinion and research on the crystal skull. He says that the Mayans grandmothers societies is the one that created the crystal skull pathway. They remember everything he said, they resembled computers in the way they store information. He also said the skulls are made of silicon.

The first crystal skull came from Atlantis and the second came from the new Mayan world after the earth shifted.

Lastly he said each crystal skull is made in memory of one thousand years. So there are 13 skulls in memories  of the past 13 thousand years.

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This video talks about how the skull was discovered. How there are fake ones out there that are claimed to be real. Some people get away with fake ones and get a lot of money for it. the one that was most talked about in the video was the British museum skull. Which later on came to realize it was a fake skull as well.

Reason to believe: Unexplained because there I no real answer to who found the skulls. There are many theories and facts on it. there is not one straight forward answer on who found the skulls.

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Since the skull has a mysterious stigmas with them. Most of the times movie directors take the idea of the skulls to make a movie. An example is The 2008 movie “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” capitalized on the ongoing mystery, as well as the passion the skulls’ believers bring to their side of the argument.

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Beginning in the late 19th century, around a dozen carved skulls made of clear or milky white quartz-also known as rock crystal-made their way into private and public collections around the globe. Since then, the origins of these "crystal skulls" have been the subject of ongoing mystery and controversy. According to the people who claimed to have discovered the skulls, they date back thousands or even tens of thousands of years, to ancient Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Aztec, Toltec, Mixtec or Maya. Many of those who believe in the crystal skulls' ancient provenance attribute supernatural powers to the objects, including healing properties and the power to expand a person's psychic abilities in their presence. Some have linked the skulls to the lost city of Atlantis, or claimed them as proof that extraterrestrials visited pre-Columbian civilizations such as the Aztecs. The 2008 movie "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" capitalized on the ongoing mystery, as well as the passion the skulls' believers bring to their side of the argument.

Scientists and archaeologists, on the other hand, are skeptical. For one thing, not one of the skulls was recovered on a documented excavation. And while skulls were a common motif in ancient Mesoamerica, and particularly Aztec, artwork (several Aztec gods are represented by skulls), the style and technique of the crystal skulls do not resemble genuine pre-Columbian representations of skulls. Recently, scientists from the British Museum in London and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. conducted analyses of crystal skulls using electron microscopes. After finding markings that could only have been made by modern-day carving implements-rather than the stone, bone and wooden tools that would have been used in pre-Colombian times-they concluded that the skulls were likely fakes. The scientists believe they were probably manufactured in the late 1800s, in response to a surge of interest in the ancient world and its artifacts.

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Beginning in the late 19th century, around a dozen carved skulls made of clear or milky white quartz-also known as rock crystal-made their way into private and public collections around the globe. Since then, the origins of these "crystal skulls" have been the subject of ongoing mystery and controversy.

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This article is about joshua shapiro’s trip to australia with his wife. He talks about his experiences in doing a festive for the body, mind and spirit which took place in sydney. He was amazed in watching the two crystal skulls in the booth.

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This article is talking about The native americans perspective on crystal skulls and what they used it for. The native americans ancient legends says that the crystal skull consists of  mysteries and secrets about life and the universe. (“The legend tells that these crystal skulls contain important information about some of the great mysteries of life and the universe.” By: Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas.)

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By Chris Morton & Ceri Louise Thomas-

An old native American legend describes the existence of thirteen ancient crystal skulls, the size of human skulls, with moveable jaws that were said to speak or sing. The legend tells that these crystal skulls contain important information about some of the great mysteries of life and the universe. They contain knowledge about the past history of our species on this planet, and information about mankind's true purpose and future destiny.

The Cherokee version of the legend says that there were originally twelve planets in the universe inhabited by human life and that there was one skull for each of these planets, together with a thirteenth skull which was vital to reconnecting all of these worlds.

The legend also says that one day, at a time of great need, all of these crystal skulls will be rediscovered and brought back together to reveal their information vital to the very survival of the human race. But the legend also warns that when that time arrives mankind must first be sufficiently developed, suitably evolved both morally and spiritually, so as not to abuse this great knowledge.

When we first heard this legend, whilst visiting the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal in Guatemala, we considered it merely a colourful story, until we found out that a real crystal skull had actually been discovered on an archaeological dig in Central America, way back in the 1920's.

The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull

Frederick Mitchell-Hedges (1882-1959) was your archetypal British adventurer-explorer; a member of the Maya Committee of the British Museum and a real Indiana-Jones type character determined to make his mark in the twilight years of the British Empire. He was of the opinion that the cradle of civilisation lay not in the Middle East, as is commonly supposed, but instead he was convinced that Atlantis was a real civilisation which had disappeared after some natural catastrophe. He believed that the remnants of this Atlantean civilisation could still be found somewhere in Central America, and he was determined to prove it.

To this end, he gathered together a party of explorers who set sail from Liverpool in 1924 bound for British Honduras (now Belize). One day, deep in the jungle, his party stumbled upon some mounds of stone overgrown with moss and foliage, and suffocated by roots and vines. So they set fire to the undergrowth. When the fire had subsided the ruins of a once great city emerged from the flames.

It was a place known to the local Mayans as 'Lubaantun' or 'The City of Fallen Stones', and it was in this lost city that Mitchell Hedges' adopted daughter Anna found a magnificent and perfect crystal skull, buried beneath an altar in the ruins of one of the great temple-pyramids. The Mayan helpers on the dig went wild with joy on the emergence of the skull. They seemed to recognise it. They kissed the ground crying, placed it on an altar, and performed ceremonial rituals and dances around it.

But what was this mysterious object and did it have anything to do with the ancient legend?

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The crystal skull is a mystery as profound as the Pyramids of Egypt, the Sphinx, the Nasca Lines of Peru, or Stonehenge. Ever since its original discovery the crystal skull has been the source of much archaeological controversy - nobody seems to know quite how old it really is, how it was made, what it was used for, and where it originally came from. All that is known for sure is that ever since it emerged from the temple ruins, the most incredible claims have been made about the crystal skull and there have been a whole host of reports of strange and unusual phenomena surrounding the skull.

As mentioned above, Anna Mitchell-Hedges is the woman who first uncovered the crystal skull as a teenager back in the 1920's. Although the crystal skull was found on what most archaeologists consider to be a Mayan site, Anna Mitchell-Hedges and many others like her believe that it is actually much older than this, and that it belonged to some mysterious pre-Mayan civilisation that has now long since disappeared from this Earth.

The crystal skull has been valued at several millions of dollars, but it is far more than just an expensive and exotic ancient artefact. For, over the years, people have reported all kinds of strange and unusual experiences in the skull's presence. In particular, it is said to have incredible 'psychic' and 'healing' powers. According to Anna Mitchell-Hedges, who passed away at the age of 100 in 2007, it is thanks to the 'healing power' of the skull that kept her alive. She said that all through her life the skull kept her in good health and happiness. The skull, she said, 'protected' her and 'communicated' with her all through her long life, and she is not the only person to have reported such experiences.

Anna allowed many visitors into her home and she accumulated hundreds of letters from the many people who came to her house to sit with the skull and who claim to have been 'healed by the skull' or that it somehow 'communicated' with them. Many of those who have spent time alone with the skull claim to have seen or heard things in its presence. Many say they have seen a gentle glow, like an aura, extending around the skull, or that they have heard sounds, like the soft chanting of human voices, emanating from it, such that it has now earned the title 'the talking' or 'singing skull', just as in the old legend.

Others claim to have seen things inside the skull. When they have sat with the skull for a long time it has started to present them with images, almost like watching a bit of cinema film. Hundreds of visitors attest to having seen incredible images from the past or the future deep inside its crystalline structure. The reports include images of ancient sacred sites, with ceremonies being performed beneath great pyramids. Others say they have seen whole periods of planetary history with great shifting of continents, the rising of sea levels and destruction of land masses, and geological cataclysm on a global scale. One of the most commonly reported images is considered by many to be the holographic image of a UFO appearing within the crystal skull - and this has even been photographed! This image in particular has led many to suggest that perhaps the crystal skull has some kind of strange unearthly origin?

But, just as the ancient legend suggests, this is not the only crystal skull to be discovered. Several other crystal skulls have since come to light. All are of mysterious origin and all are surrounded by claims of strange or unusual phenomena and tales of inexplicable, paranormal powers.

Max, the 'Talking' Crystal Skull

A woman named Joann Parks, who lives in Houston, Texas, also has a crystal skull. She, too, claims that her crystal skull has the power to heal and can communicate with her telepathically. The story of how Joann Parks came into possession of her crystal skull starts with a very sad story. In 1978 Joann's eldest daughter, Diana, was diagnosed as having bone cancer and the conventional medical doctors gave her only three months to live. Joann turned to the help of a Tibetan Lama and healer named Norbu Chen. This man owned a crystal skull, and with the help of this healer and his crystal skull, her daughter managed to live for a further three years. When her daughter eventually died, the healer gave Joann the crystal skull, telling her nothing about it except that he had originally received it from a Guatemalan shaman and that one day Joann would understand it and know what it was for.

Not knowing what to do with it, Joann put the crystal skull in a box in the bedroom closet. A few years later the skull started to appear in her dreams. Then it started "speaking to her," saying that it wanted out of the closet. She tried to ignore this 'voice' but it started "talking to her" at all times of day, saying "You must let me out of this closet. I am important to mankind," and "I will be remembered." Joanne thought she was losing her mind and even spoke to her family doctor about it, but the voice just wouldn't go away, and so she eventually found herself sitting in the bedroom closet "talking to this lump of rock" and telling it to go away, saying "Just leave me alone skull!" She slammed the skull away in a case and pushed it to the back of the wardrobe, but as she ran back down the stairs the skull kept talking to her. "It was very persistent," explained Joann and it was determined that I take it out of the closet and "tell mankind" of its existence. It even added that, "By the way, my name isn't skull, it's Max!" And since that time Joann has been showing the skull all over the United States where she says "Max has now spoken to and healed many people."

The skull had also told Joanne that it came many thousands of years ago from a civilisation far in advance of our own, and from a dimension different from our own, and that one day soon this is something mankind would understand!

What can we learn from the other crystal skulls that have now been discovered? Recently a massive crystal skull turned up at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington under very sad and mysterious circumstances. It had been sent through the post by an anonymous donor whom it transpired had taken his own life, apparently on account of the 'curse' the skull had brought on him since it came into his possession.

The British Museum also has a crystal skull which is kept in The Museum of Mankind, just off Piccadilly Circus, in London. Like the Mitchell-Hedges specimen, this skull is made from highly transparent crystal and displays an incredible degree of anatomical accuracy. This skull has been in the museum's possession since 1898 and is reported by staff to have been seen moving around by itself in its sealed glass case. The museum's cleaners are said to be so frightened of this skull that it has to be covered by a cloth before they will go anywhere near it. Where did this skull come from?

The British Museum have always considered their skull to be of Aztec origin. The note accompanying the Smithsonian skull also said that it had once belonged to the mighty Aztecs of Central America. Anna Mitchell-Hedges and Joann Parks said their skulls are at least as old as the ancient Mayan civilisation of Central America, if not far older and perhaps of extraterrestrial origin.

The ancient Aztec and Mayan people built up highly developed civilisations in an incredibly short period of time. These civilisations appeared as if from nowhere and the Mayan civilisation, just as suddenly, mysteriously disappeared.

Many archaeologists are baffled as to where they got their advanced knowledge from and why they suddenly disappeared. All the evidence that remains of this civilisation suggests they were great watchers of the skies and the heavenly bodies. They were great scientists, mathematicians and astronomers. They had a complex calendar based on the movements of the planets and the stars and which they used to predict the future. They were able to predict eclipses, even ones they could not see and that were happening elsewhere in the world. They even managed to accurately predict eclipses that have happened recently - over a thousand years after their own civilisation mysteriously disappeared.

Some researchers claim the Mayan records say their people came from Atlantis and their ancestors before that 'came from the stars'. The Mayan civilisation was also obsessed with the image of the skull, which made up an important part of their sacred, divinatory calendar.

Modern Fakes?

Many archaeologists, however, unable to explain the strange phenomena associated with the crystal skulls, claim they are simply 'modern fakes'. So how old are the crystal skulls and where did they really come from? Are they modern, Aztec, Mayan, or did they come from some other civilisation altogether?

In an attempt to try to answer these questions, Anna Mitchell-Hedges loaned her skull to one of the world's leading computer companies, Hewlett-Packard, for rigorous scientific testing. The scientists in their crystal laboratories were completely unable to determine the age of the skull, as crystal cannot be carbon-dated. But what surprised the scientists was that both the skull and its detachable lower jawbone were made from the same massive piece of pure, natural rock crystal. As crystal is only slightly softer than diamond, this finding was truly incredible.

The scientists concluded that even with modern diamond-tipped power tools, it would have been impossible to carve such an object without it shattering. At first they thought the skull must have been made by hand using sand and water to slowly abrade the material over several generations - a process they estimated must have taken around "300 man-years of effort!" But soon they were forced to revise even this conclusion. For when the skull was examined under intense magnification the scientists were in for an even bigger surprise - they were completely unable to find any evidence of tools having been used to make the skull at all! A fact which led one member of the team to comment: "This skull shouldn't even exist!"

The crystal skull challenged all conventional opinion. Here was an object that simply defied explanation. It showed no evidence of any existing technology used in its construction, no evidence of tool markings either ancient or modern. But the scientists at Hewlett-Packard said they were simply not prepared to countenance the only alternative explanation - that the skull had not even been made by humans.

The scientists other interesting discovery was that the skull had been made from precisely the same type of quartz now used in modern electronic equipment. Modern science has established that among the unusual properties of quartz crystal is its ability to hold under control electrical energy and to oscillate at a constant and precise frequency. In other words, the crystal skull is able to hold electrical energy - potentially a form of information - and send out vibrating impulses - or waves of energy information. This is why quartz crystal is used for the 'brain cells' of electronic equipment such as watches and computers. The silicon crystal chip inside a computer, for instance, is where the information is actually stored. This finding raised the distinct possibility that the crystal skulls are in fact some kind of information storage system, just as the ancient legend suggests. But what might that information be, and where do the crystal skulls really come from?

The Legend of the Crystal Skulls

Native Americans have long believed in the power of quartz crystal. They refer to quartz crystals as "the brain cells of Mother Earth" and have traditionally used them for healing. The crystal skulls have long been a part of Native American teachings but until now they have been forbidden to speak about them. Now, they say, the time has come for them to speak out about these amazing artefacts and to reveal their secret knowledge.

Professor Paula Gunn-Allen of the University of California is of Laguno Pueblo origin. She specialises in Native American literature and is well versed in the mythology and oral history of Native America. According to her the crystal skulls were created by beings "who are not humans like we are." She says the crystal skulls were designed specifically for the purpose of communication with extraterrestrial life. As she explains, "What they are is transceivers - devices to help us communicate with the other quadrants of the galaxy." She said that we might think of them "as like telephones" that get you connected with Galactic Central and enable you to stay in touch with "civilisations beyond our littie bitty modern world."

Native American medicine woman Jamie Sams says that "the crystal skulls contain information about our own ancestors, about our own past and our own future that will very soon change the whole way we see ourselves, our world, and our true place in the universe."

According to Metis Cherokee medicine man Harley Swiftdeer, the full version of the legend of the crystal skulls says that there were originally twelve planets in the universe inhabited by human life; that there was one skull for each of these planets, and a thirteenth skull which was vital to finally reconnecting all of these worlds. According to Harley Swiftdeer and other native Americans, the crystal skulls were brought to this Earth as "gifts from the gods" - brought long ago by these beings from elsewhere in the universe.

These crystal skulls contained the wisdom necessary to found civilisation on this Earth and when all thirteen crystal skulls are brought back together again, we will have finally found the key to reconnecting with our brothers and sisters elsewhere in this beautiful universe.

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CHRIS MORTON & CERI LOUISE THOMAS are independent television producers who specialise in making films with a philosophical, spiritual or environmental emphasis. Their highly-acclaimed documentary 'The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls' has been shown around the world. They are also the authors of the best selling book, The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls.

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This video talks about the origin of the skulls. They come from deep  mezzo American ruins. They are over 1000 years old. They are known for their supernatural powers for humans to even comprehend. There was a “skull of doom” hidden in the pyramids in the Mayan relic. There are a lot of controversy among these skulls and their powers. It is now in a museum in Washington.

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Confirmation Bias is an example in this case because the video is proving that there was something called crystal skull and the findings of this is real because of the book that was written by the original people who found the skull.