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Westford Knight

Westford, MA

Marks on a roadside rock have been promoted as the carved image of a medieval Scottish knight and evidence of a pre-Columbian Templar expedition to New England. Most researchers favor natural weathering and later human markings, but a plaque and knight statue ensure the disputed theory remains physically memorialized.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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