Sandy Hamblett, the ever-lasting Uncritical Believer in all things invented about Rennes-le-Château since the mid-1950s [embarrassing], has decided to place this old-hat, time-warpish account of myself from 2006 on the “Skeptics Corner” of her website. (Rhedesium is anything but “research”, and unlike Sandy Hamblett, who has stood motionless without developing, some of us have moved on.)

I can easily bring things up-to-date about both the subject-matters of the Priory of Sion (the 1989-1992 accounts of Pierre Plantard) and Rennes-le-Château (why was Abbé Saunière so successful at trafficking in masses).

It was me who informed Jean-Luc Chaumeil about the 1989-1992 activities of Pierre Plantard and his second series of “Vaincre” and Thomas Plantard de Saint-Clair's “Le Cercle” (Chaumeil did not know anything about this) – just like it was me that informed Jean-Luc Chaumeil about the death of Pierre Plantard (Chaumeil did not know anything about this either).

It is 2025 and some people still cannot stop using the word “Merovingian”!

Furthermore, there is this account of the link between the Visigothic Pillar/Statue of the Lourdes Virgin and the Calvary/Dalle de Chevaliers that I consider to be a notable discovery (except for the believers in addictive hocus-pocus).

One Point – Sandy Hamblett is completely wrong in her assessment of my being a “champion” of René Descadeillas since there are things that Descadillas got plainly wrong. Like for example Descadeillas believed that Emma Calvé and Bérenger Saunière met each other – not only is there no proof of this – but I found out the origin of the “Emma Calvé connection” that Descadeillas believed in. I showed how it could have been either Philippe de Chérisey – or someone else with a similar delusional mind-set – who introduced Emma Calvé into the myth (Point Number 10). The birth name of Emma Calvé was Rosa-Noémie Emma Calvet, as her tombstone bears witness.

Finally, Smith has been my legal surname since 7.7.1977 and I have the Deed Poll to prove that fact.

Sandy Hamblett's website is so typically full of mistakes just like all other Believer's websites. For example, someone calling themselves “Tombman” would claim that the body of Jesus Christ was buried near Rennes-le-Château – a claim that she promoted uncritically since it began, resulting in Sandy Hamblett going silent for about six months after 19 March 2012, when “Ben Hammott” was openly admitting on Facebook that it was all a prank.