Some of you may have heard of this case previously, but it's quite interesting.

There are two viewpoints on this subject and it has been dismissed by the scientific community, but what do you think?

Antelope Springs, Utah - June 1st 1968

William J Meister, Sr had been prospecting for fossils with family and friends in Antelope Springs that day and had had some luck already. Meister split open a piece of rock two inches thick to find it fell open and revealed fossils of trilobites, but also what appeared to be the fossilized imprint of a sandal.

The impression had the right dimensions (10 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches), what appeared to be a heel, and evidence of wear & tear on the sole.

What was more it was on top of the trilobites, as if the sandal had stepped on them.

Subsequent dating revealed that the rock is from the Cambrian Wheeler Formation - which is 500 million years old.

The case against this intriguing find is that the sandal impression is actually spall pattern in a concretion-like slab, with the heel line being a crack that runs beyond the impression into the surrounding rock.

It's just chance that makes it appear shoe-like.


It may seem like this is an open & shut case, however when compared with other odd finds within rock formations - such as the nail found embedded in a rock fossil in Scotland, in St.Louis in 1816 a slab of 270 million year old limestone was found to contain human footprints (when humans did not exist), and in Jackson County, Kentucky more human footprints were found in the 1880s in rock more than 300 million years old, it starts to make one wonder...



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Those time anachronisms are always interesting....but IMO I just think they are based on a natural phenomena of some sort...some sort of thing that while gives the illusion of vast time, really is more modern than scientists can determine.

Looking at the picture you have supplied, the two halves of the split rock would fit perfectly together. No sign of Trilobite inclusion anywhere that I can see. I suspect the story of the trilobites is just that, a story. The shape exposed is very odd, but certainly not unique, if a humanoid were wearing sandals that shape then it would probably lead to callouses.

On the attached photo, one the trilobites is indicated with the black arrow.