Mystery AtlasDavid Fasold
A US merchant marine officer and salvage expert who promoted the Durupınar site as Noah's Ark in the 1970s-80s before co-authoring a 1996 peer-reviewed paper reversing his own conclusion and identifying it as a natural syncline.
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People
David Fasold is frequently compared to Ron Wyatt — Both were early Durupınar investigators who started from the same Ark identification; Fasold later reversed his conclusion in a peer-reviewed paper, Wyatt never did.
David Fasold is frequently compared to Robert Dunfield — Both personally led on-site investigations of a long-running treasure or relic claim and concluded the physical evidence pointed to a natural rather than man-made or supernatural origin.
Places
David Fasold debunked Durupınar Site — Co-authored a 1996 peer-reviewed paper with geologist Lorence Collins reversing his own earlier Ark identification and concluding the formation is a natural syncline.