Graham during filming on the Burton Dassett Hills.

Graham’s search for the Ark of the Covenant is to feature in a documentary made by the National Geographic Channel to be screened in the summer of 2006.  A film crew followed Graham as he relived his personal quest to track down the biblical relic.

In The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant Graham examined the possibility that the Templars discovered the lost Ark in a mountain cave in southern Jordan during the crusades of the twelfth century.  They are said to have returned with it to Britain, where they built a chapel to house it at the village of Temple Herdewyke, named after them, in the county of Warwickshire in central England.  When their descendants were eventually wiped out by the Black Death in the 1300s, the relic was hidden, never to be found.   In England, Graham investigated the claim of a nineteenth-century historian that a series of mysterious wall paintings in a church on Warwickshire’s Burton Dassett Hills held clues to the secret hiding place of the Ark.

The National Geographic crew followed Graham as he recreated his search which eventually led to a roadside well where he believes the Ark might still lie buried.  The weather was perfect for filming, but shooting did not go without incident.  A vicar refused to allow Graham to be filmed inside his church, a hotel manger turned the National Geographic crew away, and a farmer on the Burton Dassett Hills seemed to object to Graham’s very existence. Evidently, the population of this tranquil country setting are not too happy about the publicity Graham’s book has brought to the area.