Someone I know shared this on facebook today.

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/archaeologists-discover-golden-plates-believed-to-be-linked-to-joseph-smith-jr/

Although it is from two years ago, this person is boasting about it.
I am pretty shure by now this must have been debunked. Anyone have that information?

That's a satirical site. It's not meant to be real.

Yep, "World News Daily" is the same place that publishes "stories" about Hubble discovering heavenly cities, Russian cosmonauts seeing "angels" in space, etc.

No facts there. :)

If you bother to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page (most people don't), you'll find this declaration:

"World News Daily Report assumes all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any person, living, dead or undead, is purely a miracle."



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/13/2017 12:07PM by ificouldhietokolob.

How dare you besmirch the credibility of such an upstanding news organization? At least the stuff they make up is interesting.

The comments are hilarious. Full of TBM's defending the story. lol

I thot TBMs believe the plates were taken back to hebbin.

Swat they tole me.

"The Brethren" haven't been boasting about it.

In fact, "the Brethren" haven't even mentioned it: in Conference, in the Ensign, anywhere at all.

Why isn't this person following the Brethren?

Shades of Kinderhook.

I thought Godzilla melted down the Gold Plates.

Actually, Mrs Moroni had quite the earful for him after sneaking her good plates out of the house. No more sleepovers with that trouble maker Joe. Now try to get your foot in the right hole on your jammies.

I like how those "golden" plates are rusted.

If I recall correctly, Moroni eventually came beak and took the plates back. So how believable is it that after taking the plates back from Joseph, he hides them again, somewhere on earth?

Never to be seen or heard from again.

BYU Productions must have a woman in Props Department whose kid needed extra credit points to bring his grade in welding class up to a "C."

Great way to repurpose that aluminum thing with the prefabricated enchiladas from Costco.

Oh, wait, the angel ...