What do you think are the Ooparts (out of place artifacts), sophisticated objects found inside coal, dating millions of years back?

by themanwiththexrayeye

Bells, pots, cubes, spheres, hammers found inside coal (generally) deposits dating hundreds of millions of years back. What could be the explanation?

https://www.apparentlyapparel.com/news/strange-artifacts-reveal-history-of-human-origin-is-wrong

suddenly_mozzarella

Every item in that article is either a poor interpretation of ordinary processes of nature or human artifice, an apocryphal story, or a deliberate hoax.

  • London Hammer: A natural concretion around a discarded modern tool.
  • Nampa Figurine: Almost certainly a hoax.
  • West Virginia Coal Bell: Apparently a real artifact, but Anderson's story about how he found it is impossible to verify, not to mention reliant on the worldview and observational skills of a rural ten year old in 1944.
  • Morrisonville Chain: Based on a single small-town newspaper report from 1891. No physical evidence exists, just the story.
  • Eve's Thimble: Based on an unanswered 1883 letter to the editors of The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal. I can't find any other contemporary references to this story or any evidence that such an artifact even exists at all, but it's nevertheless repeated totally credulously on pretty much every creationist website out there. The inline photo seems to originate with the article you linked.
  • Salzburg Cube/Wolfsegg Iron: Probably a cast-iron ingot used as ballast in early mining machinery that fell into a coal deposit. It's not even a cube.
  • Glen Rose Tracks: Claims of human tracks appearing alongside dinosaur tracks are partly a misinterpretation of evidence, partly an outright hoax.
  • Glen Rose Finger: It's just a rock that kinda looks like a finger. I found something similar in our backyard pond when I was a kid. The claims made about the purported CAT scan are patent nonsense.
  • Klerksdorp Spheres: They're just round rocks with grooves in them, formed by an unusual but totally natural process of concretion and subsequent erosion.

TL;DR: Consider the source. A website whose logo is a pyramid with an eye on top whose primary mission appears to be selling t-shirts probably isn't a good one.