{"id":1555,"date":"2021-01-09T21:54:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T21:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/amateur-archaeologist-believes-he-s-traced-the-holy-grail-to-a-secret-crypt-under-a-river-in-hounslow"},"modified":"2022-10-10T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T13:33:36","slug":"amateur-archaeologist-believes-he-s-traced-the-holy-grail-to-a-secret-crypt-under-a-river-in-hounslow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/amateur-archaeologist-believes-he-s-traced-the-holy-grail-to-a-secret-crypt-under-a-river-in-hounslow","title":{"rendered":"Amateur archaeologist believes he&#8217;s traced the Holy Grail to a &#8216;secret crypt&#8217; under a river in Hounslow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AN amateur archaeologist believes he has located the Holy Grail &#8212; at a secret crypt under a river in Hounslow.Barrie-Jon Bower, 40, is convinced the cup Jesus Christ drank from at the Last Supper has been hidden in suburban West London.Amateur archaeologist Barrie-Jon Bower at the possible Holy Grail site Credit: Jon Bond &#8211; The SunAn illustration of how the Holy grail might look likeHe has enlisted the help of the Environment Agency, which has agreed to divert the river so the bed can be surveyed with specialist equipment.Today the would-be Indiana Jones was at the site doing preparatory work. He said of the mysterious goblet, sought after for more than 2,000 years: &#8220;When I find it, it&#8217;s going to be one of the greatest finds in history &#8212; the biggest discovery of mankind.&#8220;Now I&#8217;ve been in the water it&#8217;s made me more certain. It feels hollow. It feels right. There&#8217;s something underneath. Why not Hounslow?&#8221; Mr Bower, who is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN amateur archaeologist believes he has located the Holy Grail &#8212; at a secret crypt under a river in Hounslow. Barrie-Jon Bower, 40, is convinced the cup Jesus Christ drank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,348],"tags":[322,185],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science","tag-indiana-jones","tag-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}