For example, the first “target” lay on the southeast tip of Sardinia where Ron had sketched a second century b.c. foundation described as the Temple of Tanit and originally dedicated to the Carthage patroness of the same name (or alleged variant of the Phoenician Asherat, mother of the sea). Although the structure itself had been known since 1952, what Ron recalled as a lower, concealed entrance was not. In other words—and this again without ever laying eyes upon the structure—LRH sketches indicated the presence of an unexcavated entrance below the temple base. Whereupon, as he so perfunctorily explains: “Missions were sent ashore to survey and map the area to see if they couldn’t discover this old secret entrance to the temple as the target that would demonstrate the whole track memory.

“We lowered boats and rowed back and forth and sent people ashore. They looked it all over and came up with a result.”

That is, as one of the actual survey party proceeded to explain, having determined a “ditch” at the base of the temple, “we scraped around the bottom of the ditch and found it was tiled underneath a thin layer of dust and dirt . . . We kept on digging there until we were quite convinced that this was the ditch that led into the basement of the temple. So, that was totally proven and accurate.”

Similarly, LRH sketches of a Roman tower and adjacent graveyard twenty-seven miles west of Palermo proved just as accurate, and were all the more impressive for the fact that indicated gravestones had long been dismantled for the construction of stables and so appeared on no local maps. In either case, as yet another of the survey party explained: “We traveled for about a day and a half or two and there was the beach just as it was mapped out. Ron had also given us, before our arrival, a second map that showed exactly the plan of the tower, how it would look, how the cellar would look and the whole construction of the tower. We went up to the tower and dug around for several hours and found exactly the structure that was indicated.”

Then followed equally true LRH sketches of Roman-Carthaginian ruins in Tunisia, also long buried beneath modern structures and likewise disregarded on local guides, followed by his indication of only just discovered Phoenician-Carthage ruins beneath the harbor waters. Finally, and in genuinely startling detail, he was able to describe the view from a vessel’s bow at the mouth of a never previously visited Tunisian cove, right down to the boulder formations. That is, before sailing from the port of Tunis, Ron had sketched an otherwise insignificant stretch of coast to the south. Arriving in utter darkness, he confidently informed the Avon River crew, “Your ship’s bow (it was very dark) is now pointing at a pointed hill on the east-facing side of a small cove and there’s a boulder there...” Whereupon, survey teams waited until first light, and observed precisely the same.

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