Pls go to this site http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/index.htm#kalantiaw
to know the greatest frauds in Philippine history. The perpetrator is
Jose E. Marco.

You've heard of the Code of Kalantiaw. This was proudly announced to
the world by the greatest of Philippine historiographers, James
Alexander Robertson, before the leading thinkers on the Pacific
sometime in 1903 in San Francisco. It was only in 1986 that the hoax
was exposed by William H. Scott.

Another hoax by the same criminal mind almost got past our notice.
And maybe would have achieved the same proportion of monumental
acceptance as the Code of Kalantiaw if we were sleeping. This
purported eyewitness account of a mass held on March 19, 1521 in two
separate places, Homonhon and Suluan, was announced to the world by a
Percy A. Hill before the war and re-announced by popular columnist
Bambi Harper on Feb. 1, 2003. Unknown to Ms. Harper was the fact that
this purported original manuscript was actually the handiwork of the
same guy, Jose E. Marco.

Ms. Harper later corrected her error in response to my request. The
harm it will do to the people of Suluan and Homonhon and the rest of
the country is enormous. It would have brought the spectacle of
Homonhon, Suluan, Limasawa, and Pinamanculan-Butuan City celebrating
the same event, invoking their own authorities and arguments
including Ms. Harper.

Anyway, I trust the National Historical Institute will find it in
their hearts to stop this kind of nonsense before it becomes
universal belief that cannot be shaken off for a thousand years. (The
flat earth idea took thousands of years to correct.) Among nonsense
beliefs is that the Sikatuna-Legaspi blood compact is the first such
affair and the first peace treaty. This error has been elevated into
the highest decoration the Philippine Republic can give to an
individual, citizen or foreign.

This incident reminds us of one of the greatest hoaxes in Western
history, the famous "Plate of Brasse" supposedly left by Sir Francis
Drake in Marin County in the California, I believe. In 1936 Prof.
Herbert Bolton, eminent historian at University of California at
Berkeley, who announced to the world its discovery. It was "too good
to be true."

The hoax was revealed only recently. It turns out the plate was
actually made by his drinking buddies of Bolton who wanted to play a
practical joke on him. Bolton was too excited by the find that he
threw caution to the wind and announced to the academic world what he
thought was an earth-shaking discovery.

Bolton died in 1953 bringing to his grave the unshakeable belief he
had made the discovery of his life.