400-Year-Old Conspiracy: Radar Results “Inconclusive” if There Are Any Human Remains Buried in William Shakespeare’s Tomb

A damper has fallen across the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death coming  up on April 23rd.

Apparently the Shakespeare Trust in Stratford recently teamed up with a British film company to persuade the Holy Trinity Church to allow what the public has been told is the bard’s tomb to be scanned with ground penetrating radar in an attempt to prove the man’s body is really in there.

The anonymous tomb at the church that is supposed to be Shakespeare’s has been a source of contention over the years, as many skeptics have come forward since his death to claim William Shakespeare isn’t really who people think he was and didn’t actually pen all those classic works.

In fact, many believe it might have been secret society member Sir Francis Bacon:

Did you know that there are many scholars who believe that there’s a conspiracy surrounding the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare, and that Shakespeare didn’t actually write the works attributed to him? This Shakespeare conspiracy theory began almost two centuries ago and was recently inflamed by the production of Anonymous, which portrays Shakespeare as a semi-literate, scarcely talented minor actor paid by the genius de Vere, Earl of Oxford, to pass the plays off as his own, as it would have been impossible for a member of the aristocracy to be a playwright in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

The main contenders for the authorship are Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere.

The backfired radar attempt has only added fuel to that fire because, as ex-CIA analyst Peter W. Dickson has pointed out, researchers could not conclusively confirm that there were any human remains buried there at all in the first place and have been trying desperately to downplay this fact:

Indeed, the fiasco may cause more people to doubt – or even reject – the longstanding claim that the man with this famous name from a market town in the British Midlands was the true author of the Shakespearean works.

That concern may explain, in part, why the scientists who conducted a radar scan of Shakespeare’s alleged tomb have been busy obscuring the curious results of their inspection and refusing to admit the possibility that no one was buried in the floor tomb. Instead, the scientists have been distracting a media with a dubious suggestion that the Bard’s skull is missing from the tomb and perhaps was stolen.

So? Do they have something to hide? They can’t simply pretend the results don’t exist, can they?

Then again, without proper DNA analysis, there would be no way to know who was even buried there even if they had found human bones.

If there’s really something to hide regarding the existence (or non-existence) of William Shakespeare, you’ll never see a day when exhumation of that tomb is allowed, regardless of what radar sweeps fail to show.