CC#3: Makers of Crystal Skull Being Sued

     An article posted back in December 2012 written by Benjamin Radford entitled, 'Indiana Jones' Makers Sued Over Crystal Skull, talks about the true meanings of the crystal skull portrayed in the film. The whole storyline of the movie is also apparently "s based upon a national treasure looted nearly a century ago from the small Central American country."
     Dr. Jaime Awe, an Archeologist in Belize, filed a lawsuit on a Wednesday last month. "This real-life Indiana Jones is suing on behalf of the nation of Belize over the Crystal Skull artifact." Apparently, the crystal is an artifact that was stolen 88 years ago by a family in Belize. Since the crystal skull was used in the latest 'Indiana Jones' movie back in 2008, Dr. Awe is demanding the return of the skull.
     "Awe states that the crystal skull described in the film was stolen by a British explorer (and sometime archaeologist) named F.A. Mitchell-Hedges during a visit to the Maya ruins of Lubantuun in the jungle of Belize in the early 1920s." F.A. Mitchell-Hedges daughter, Anna, was said to have found the skull in the ruins. After taking the skull back to England where she hales from, she examined the skull in 1959 after her fathers death.
     "It's unlikely that the lawsuit will go anywhere — mostly because (apparently unbeknownst to Awe) it's based on a famous hoax." An editor of Junior Skeptic magazine, Daniel Loxton, researched this topic and discovered that Anna Mitchell-Hedges has changed her story a few times. "The first account stated that she and her father found the skull together beneath an altar in a ruined temple in 1926. In a 1983 account she claimed she was with a worker who was felling trees in the jungle and saw something shiny beneath the stones and dug it up on the spot. Then she claimed she found it after being lowered into a hidden temple with ropes (ironically, in a scene reminiscent of an Indiana Jones film)."
     I am making a connection with myself. I enjoyed this movie very much so and I would have never figured that the crystal is actually a real artifact. I just thought that Stephen Spielberg randomly thought up this idea for another movie.
     I believe that this lawsuit should just be dropped. Who cares if the crystal skull was taken and used in the movie? The movie was a success and is loved by many people.