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Post by lois on Mar 5, 2011 15:59:59 GMT -6
Perfectly Aligned 9-Ton Gate Can Be Opened by Five-Year Old Child Using One Finger.
How is it possible for a short, 100 pound sickly man, working alone and using only simple tools, to have quarried, cut, trimmed and assembled over 3 million pounds of dense coral blocks to build a castle? And, to have interlocked the stones with exacting precision, some weighing up to 30 tons, without the use of mortar? Called Coral Castle, and sometimes called The Eighth Wonder of the World, this castle was originally located in Florida City in the 1920's, then in the mid 1930's it was moved single-handedly to its present location on a ten acre tract near Homestead, Florida.
The builder's name was Edward Leedskalnin, a kind and gentle immigrant from Latvia who only had a fourth grade education. Yet, he was brilliant. Edward Leedskalnin was a skilled electrical engineer who had done extensive experimentation with electromagnetism. He generated his own electricity and was happy to demonstrate his equipment to his neighbors. Edward wrote five booklets. His first work was Magnetic Current published in 1945. The booklet is Ed's cryptic explanation of the laws of magnetism and electricity that enabled him to build Coral Castle.
Whenever Edward Leedskalnin was asked, "How did you build the Castle?" he replied, "It’s not difficult really. The secret is in knowing how." Edward Leedskalnin would go so far as stating that he could see beads of light on objects that he said were the physical presence of nature's magnetism. He explained that scientists have incorrect knowledge of atomic structure and electricity. He stated that all forms of existence are made up of three components, North and South poles and neutral particles of matter. He claimed to have "re-discovered the laws of weight, measurement, and leverage." Edward Leedskalnin stated that these laws "involved the relationship of the Earth to celestial alignments." Beyond these sketchy explanations, Edward didn't say much.
Ed's brochures about his Castle proudly stated, "I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!"
Edward Leedskalnin was a very private person who was very reclusive. He was very secretive about his method of operation. He worked only at night. He could sense when people would sneak around at night trying to catch him at work. At such times he would stop his work and would continue only after they left. Nevertheless, some people have reported that they did glimpse him at work. One person claims to have seen the rocks move by themselves. Ed's neighbor stated he saw Edward singing to the stones with his hands placed on their surface. A group of young witnesses claimed to see coral blocks floating through the air "like hydrogen balloons."
Edward Leedskalnin enjoyed giving guided tours of his Coral Castle for which he charged ten cents. When asked why he built the castle, Edward would always reply, "Someday my Sweet 16 will come." At the age of 26, the day before he was to marry Agnes Scuffs, Agnes called the wedding off. However, there is speculation that Agnes was not the Sweet 16 Edward referred to since whenever he was asked about Sweet 16, he would stare into the sky as if in a trance.
As Ed Leedskalnin gave his tours, he would explain each structure in detail. Some of the more incredible of his works was an obelisk monolith weighing nearly 30 tons, twice the weight of any stone in the Great pyramid. At forty feet tall it was taller than the great monolith at Stonehedge. This he quarried and also erected by himself. He carved the huge stones into intricate designs. He created a rocking chair weighing three tons that could be rocked with a finger. He made a spiral staircase from one piece of stone that led to a subterranean refrigerator. Another of his accomplishments was a five thousand pound heart-shaped coral rock table with a red blooming ixora growing from its center.
Many of his stones were aligned astronomically and integrated into a grand architectural plan based on mathematical and astronomical data. He created a thirty-ton telescope towering twenty-five feet tall, perfectly aligned with the North Star. Edward made a working sundial that was calibrated to noon of the winter and summer solstice. It was accurate to two minutes. Another area of his labyrinth contained three 18-ton pieces of coral rock carved to show the moon in the first quarter, last quarter and in full. Edward Leedskalnin also had coral rock carvings of the planets Mars and ringed Saturn, and concentric coral circles to represent the solar system.
Perhaps the most spectacular of Ed's carvings is a huge nine-ton stone door through which he drilled an eight-foot longitudinal hole that was precisely aligned with the stone’s center of gravity. Edward fitted the hole with a shaft resting on an automobile gear, and then installed the door. The door fits within a quarter of an inch of the walls on either side. The door is so perfectly balanced that it may be easily pushed open by a five-year old child using one finger. Today's engineers, using advanced laser and computer technology, would be hard pressed to duplicate this phenomenal engineering feat.
A local contractor was hired to cut a stone from Ed's quarry. Using a diamond tipped power saw and a 600 horsepower crane the contractor had difficulty removing a smaller sized stone. Also, the contractor could not extract the stone by cutting horizontally across the bottom of the stone, but had to break it away to extract it. Edward Leedskalnin cut his huge stones to create the four vertical sides, and then he also cut horizontally across the bottoms to extract the stones.
One night a group of thugs, believing Edward had a treasure hidden in his castle, viciously attacked him, nearly killing him. The attack motivated Ed Leedskalnin to move his Coral Castle, ten miles away, to Homestead, Florida. Edward hired a trucker to help him haul all 3 million pounds of his megaliths. However, when it came time to load and unload the coral stones, Edward always asked the trucker to look away.
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Post by lois on Mar 5, 2011 16:03:24 GMT -6
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Post by lois on Mar 5, 2011 16:06:03 GMT -6
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Post by lois on Mar 5, 2011 16:08:13 GMT -6
I copy headings but they never show up..
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Post by lois on Mar 5, 2011 16:19:27 GMT -6
At the end of the first post. It was told Ed told the trucker to look away. How did he do it?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2011 16:32:02 GMT -6
Wow Lois. One of the stones was analyzed and determined to be not of this Earth? Wow...
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Post by lois on Mar 5, 2011 16:59:31 GMT -6
I lost track on this place years ago.. I came across the video of a 20 year investigation. I had forgotten about Coral Castle..Yes, I wonder if it is true about not from this earth...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2011 22:55:05 GMT -6
I remember it every so often Lois and I'm always re-amazed when I do. I'm so glad you mentioned it. He once said that moving the stones was not difficult...once you knew how. "Edward spent over 28 years building the Coral Castle, refusing to allow anyone to view him while he worked. A few teenagers claimed to have witnessed his work, reporting that he had caused the blocks of coral to move like hydrogen balloons. The only tool that Leedskalnin spoke of using was a "perpetual motion holder." They figure that he was a natural geomancer (someone in sync with earth energy). He actually moved the entire site some ten miles to a different location after he was mugged. The link below is a really interesting take on it Lois..some stuff I didn't know before about the stone alignments and astronomy, kind of like stone henge. I've never heard anything about any of the stones not being from earth though..I thought they were all local rock coral, that's interesting. www.labyrinthina.com/coral.htmwww.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Coral_Castle
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Post by casper on Mar 6, 2011 11:51:23 GMT -6
I never heard of coral castle. How could he pick it up and move it ten miles? And why is it such a big secret how he works? Is he hiding something? I want to go down there and check it out.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2011 13:12:43 GMT -6
He did keep his methods a secret Casper. I'm guessing he figured some would abuse the knowledge but I don't know that for fact. I'd love to see it myself
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Post by auntym on Sept 15, 2013 12:54:47 GMT -6
www.supernaturalufo.com/cathie-antigravity-coral-castle-ufos/Cathie, Antigravity, Coral Castle & UFO’s on September 15, 2013 Cathie, Antigravity, Coral Castle & UFO’s in Alien and UFO / by Admin / on September 15, 2013 Researcher and investigator Joe Bullard discussed the work of Capt. Bruce Cathie, a retired New Zealand airline pilot, who after witnessing UFOs, developed a theory of a harmonic grid system circling the Earth. Bullard also spoke about the mysterious Coral Castle in Florida, and how Ed Leedskalnin’s construction of it relates to Cathie’s theories. Cathie was one of the first to associate UFOs with the idea of anti-gravity, and believed that these craft were not coming from distant planets but have always been here. The grid Cathie postulated is like an invisible line of energy that craft align with and can use as an energy/propulsion source, Bullard explained…. Video credit: DiscloseTruthTV
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Post by lois on Sept 15, 2013 21:58:00 GMT -6
He built this place for a woman he loved who never came. That is what I think of when someone mentions this place. There were no rooms to live in . What was it for? What i mean is what would this woman do there if she had came. After listening to this video I wonder was it a woman from his earlier lifetime? If so why did he think she would come to him in this life? Thanks for posting auntym. That was very interesting. I first heard about Coral Castle from the tv series sightings. I have it all on vhs. I think I may have a video among it which shows the man himself.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2013 9:09:39 GMT -6
One of my favorite mysteries. He said once..that if you knew what you were doing..it was simple.
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Post by lois on Sept 17, 2013 9:18:38 GMT -6
One of my favorite mysteries. He said once..that if you knew what you were doing..it was simple. That is true about every thing one knows. I was happy to know how to tie my shoes before I started school. I watched other children every day struggling with it. Of course all people knew how. No one understood how this castle was made. For some reason my shoes popped into my head. The mind works strange at times.
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Post by auntym on Oct 11, 2015 11:41:11 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2015 15:46:07 GMT -6
Good Find, AuntyM ! How many of you already suspected something like this? I was willing to bet that the 'mystery' would be solved someday, but to actually have on film the guy doing it himself (and not just some demonstration) is awesome! In his story, the guy getting beat up once (if not more) kinda "blew his secret" for me. A person that can move many-tonned rocks by himself, with "magical" means, can surely easily lift a human or two by same "means".
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Post by patsbox7 on Oct 14, 2015 21:06:00 GMT -6
Such a bummer when things get debunked. It's like learning the secret to a really cool magic trick. Takes all the fun out of it.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 14, 2015 21:56:46 GMT -6
I don't consider that to be debunking. It's more like finally finding the solution to a puzzle. I like solving mysteries like that.
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Post by patsbox7 on Oct 15, 2015 16:20:44 GMT -6
True It still takes the mystery out of it. I always thought that there was some bizarre explanation behind it, like he was somehow levitating it with negative magnetic energy. The video totally rationally explains it though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2015 9:47:24 GMT -6
Such a bummer when things get debunked. It's like learning the secret to a really cool magic trick. Takes all the fun out of it. Agreed. How many people (since the Egyptians?) take so much time to build a "park", and by themselves? Are our great great grandkids going to have the same type of feelings when they find out that its a "machine" that allows them to skip through parallel universes? ******* Just for a mild comparison, when I first moved into this house, the yard was horrible and devoid of any "style" or color. So, the past (2) summers I have worked hard to change that, and Love the work. It takes time. For planned plants to grow full, etc. I like it (not that I need it) when people openly comment on how beautiful the yard is (now). I don't like it so much, when people openly comment things like "I've seen you working all summer", or "that's a lot of hard work". Call me silly, or unable to take some compliment, but we all know that effort goes into "good projects". Maybe a few years from now they will just appreciate the beauty, and wonder how I did it all . . . .
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Post by patsbox7 on Oct 22, 2015 11:41:01 GMT -6
That's funny, I despise gardening just because of all the hard manual labor that's involved. My parents are BIG into it like you, and every weekend I would have to help out. I know, poor me, but now that I'm all grown up with a house of my own I have like three tulips and a lawn. That's it, lol. I think for me half of the fun about the unknown is the mystery behind it. If you told me the pyramids were built with that same crane thing, and a bunch of slaves, which is most likely the case, they just wouldn't inspire the same awe and wonder. Now with technology, that is a different story for me. For example, huge airplanes are just amazing to me. The fact that we can make something so huge fly at over five hundred miles per hour is incredible to me. Even though I know the physics and technology behind it, still doesn't diminish the wow factor. I think the same will hold true, for me personally anyways, with the up and coming advancements. The LHC for example, is like our generations pyramids. If we were to disappear, and humans re-evolved to a lower level of advancement, they would look at that thing like we HAD to have help to build such an advanced machine.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2015 9:45:18 GMT -6
LOL. It is funny. And I'm ok with that. A lot of bending, walking, with that manual labor. My kids have never been forced to even rake leaves. Its really funny right now because my mom is trying to enforce a "family yard clean up day" at the old house where my sister lives. As a "birthday present for my sister". No one EVER "bites" my moms planned 'family days' because they are geared around work. Never. She keeps trying, saying how everybody used to get together and help out on my grandparents farm. I've never seen my mom rake leaves. LOL. But yeah. I use myself as an example to my kids, 18, 18, and 21 years old. I tell them this is the time to make decisions about what kind of life you want in the future. Do you want a condo or an apartment (no yard work)? Do you want pets? Do you want to have ANY responsibilities besides yourself? It still amazes me that people just fall into their choices; when there are so many choices. You have young kids- so, a lot of coming and going with activities. What activities do you set time for yourself, outside of work? Do you have a once every 2 weeks poker night? Does a good movie come out that you and the wife just make an effort to go see? I wonder if this Coral Castle guy gave himself time to be lonely. I read recently that boredom should be a stimulus for kids (I got so tired of my kids even mentioning boredom) and I understand that . . . time to find something to do! Boredom can happen anywhere, at any time, and it is my understanding that loneliness can, too. Obviously, my main complaint in life is being tired. LOL. Would this Coral Castle guy have accepted help, if people offered to help him? Was the "lost love" a ruse, given as a purpose to stay busy making something? _____________________________________________ Keeping it simple. Compared to wondering why the pyramids were so important to make . . . for obviously more cultures than just the Egyptians? Why is the LHC so important? Is it just going to make space travel more feasible? There's a common goal, but room for the "what ifs". Yes, very exciting. I can ponder all this while I am "mindlessly gardening". I can stop to chat with a passer-by for a bit, or make it clear that I'm too busy to talk. Being a single mom for 12 years has made me very selfish of my time. People think that I'm retired, or carefree. They can think whatever they want, can't they? Now, the question is, do the people working on the LHC have spouses, kids, pets? I'm sure they have found their own kind of "normal". Going to work everyday to a job you absolutely love? Think astronauts and jet pilots . . . . .
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Post by lois on Oct 23, 2015 19:27:38 GMT -6
Will I'll be .. auntym A mystery I thought I would never see solved . Never seen the video of him actually doing it. Wonder where they found it. It is still sad as his lover never came back.
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Post by auntym on Jul 31, 2018 13:21:42 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/07/the-odd-case-of-the-mysterious-coral-castle/ The Odd Case of the Mysterious Coral CastleBrent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/July 29, 2018 There are numerous anomalous constructions throughout the world that have managed to remain enigmatic and perplex us since time unremembered. The Pyramids, Stonehenge, and many others like these have long incited speculation, debate, and countless conspiracy theories. Such mysterious constructions are not merely a feature of the ancient world, and indeed one of the oddest cases of an anomalous structure that no one can figure out comes to us from the modern day, when an eccentric loner managed to singlehandedly build one of the most puzzling engineering mysteries of our time. The whole strange story begins with a man named Edward Leedskalnin, who was born in the country of Latvia in 1887. Brought up in a dirt poor family, Leedskalnin was rather uneducated, only ever achieving the equivalent of around a 4th grade education, and this may have been one of the reasons that the girl he had planned to marry and start a life with suddenly up and dumped him. By all accounts this devastated the then 26-year-old man, who in dejection decided to leave everything behind and start a new life over in the United States in the early 1920s. His first destination was the town of Reedsport, Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest, but the cold weather did not agree with him, and he also came down with a case of tuberculosis while there. At this time his eccentricity would start to show, as he would claim that he made a full recovery from the disease by using magnets to stimulate his immune system and banish the sickness. Seeking a warmer climate and happier times, Leedskalnin would then move to Florida City, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where he would buy a remote, undeveloped plot of land to call home, and it was here that he would begin an ambitious project that he would at first call “The Rock Gate.” It was a project that was to last 28 years, and go on to become one of the most bizarre architectural conundrums in the world. Edward Leedskalnin Over the course of the next few decades, Leedskalnin slowly but surely meticulously erected an intricate structure composed of over 1,100 tons of oolite limestone, which he quarried and moved all by himself, without any help. Puzzlingly, the epic slabs of stone that comprised the structure are on average 14 tons of solid rock each, with some weighing all the way up to 27 tons, all of which were precisely and seamlessly connected without the use of any sort of cement or mortar, and the whole thing surrounded by sheer rock walls 8 feet high, with two monoliths erected of towering stones measuring 25 feet tall each. The strange part is that Leedskalnin did all of the quarrying, carving, and moving of the stones completely by himself, often in the dead of night when no one was around to watch him, and he always stopped if anyone came around. He was also not a large man, standing only 5 feet tall and weighing around 100 pounds, and with his 4th grade education no one could figure out how he was doing it. Things got even more impressive when his sprawling construction was interrupted by the building of a subdivision nearby. A recluse who loved nothing better than his privacy, instead of putting up with the troublesome intrusion Leedskalnin instead opted to have the whole thing moved piece by massive piece to Homestead, Florida, a full 10 miles away. To do this he used a friend’s truck, but at no point did he have any help, always working alone. This relocation would take 3 years, after which the eccentric and secretive Leedskalnin commenced his obsessive construction of what would go on to be called “The Coral Castle” with renewed vigor. By the time the vast and complex structure was finished, a full 28 years later, it was considered to be a modern architectural marvel. The whole castle was two stories high, featured living quarters and a throne room with enormous stone thrones, a sundial, a Polaris telescope, a 40-foot-high obelisk, turrets, towers, a water fountain, an expansive garden full of sculptures, and a 9-ton revolving gate standing 8-feet high and smooth enough in action that it was said that even a child could easily push it open. It is all meticulously crafted, virtually free of imperfections or chisel marks, and mostly comprised of immensely heavy stones that would be hard for a team of men with advanced equipment to move, let alone one tiny, uneducated man with only crude tools at his disposal. It is all a marvel of engineering that has managed to astound architects, engineers, and scientists to this day. CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/07/the-odd-case-of-the-mysterious-coral-castle/
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