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The 7 Paranormal Wonders of the World
#7 Easter Island Statues
Easter Island, Pacific Ocean
Easter Island Head
The heads have been silent for long enough. The truth is that they’re not just heads: there are whole torsos hiding underneath the soil. Sure, scientists claim they know how the giant moai statues (more than 500 complete and as many unfinished) were built — if you believe the scientists. And there’s a lot of speculation about how they were transported to their resting places.
Even if this all didn’t require extraterrestrial intervention, as Erich von Daniken speculated in Chariots of the Gods, the moais of Easter Island still command our respect. At up to an imposing 33 feet high, they ought to. And there is some remaining mystery — with no trees on the island, how exactly did the natives get the giant, heavy statues some four miles from their source to their final resting places? Once there, why were they knocked down? Few realize that, until recent restoration attempts, the heads all lay on their sides, the victims of some change in tribal leadership, godhead or cosmic alliance?
#6 Oak Island Mystery Site
Oak Island, Nova Scotia
Oak Island
The year was 1795, and Donald McGinnis and a couple of friends, the teenage sons of settlers on a small island in Nova Scotia, found a large, circular depression in the ground with a tackle block hanging over it. A day of digging later and the boys thought they were on the way to finding Captain Kidd’s hidden treasure — a booty that had become legendary in that time.oakisland.png
Maybe it was pirate treasure — the boys never found out. Neither did the scores of others who spent years trying to dig it up. Some even gave their lives.
Why couldn’t they just dig up a buried treasure? Lots of reasons: for one, in 1802, when diggers had reached a whopping 90 feet beneath the surface, they discovered two things. First, they found an inscription that read “Twenty feet below, two million pounds lie buried.” Second, they found that whatever was below was protected by booby traps: three shafts connected directly to the ocean flooded the pit. Bailing was useless, and attempts to dig alternate shafts failed, too — more flooding booby traps.
What is most fascinating is that after over 200 years, no one knows what’s down there. And not for lack of trying: there have been almost continuous attempts at digging, but it’s still a very difficult proposition, excavating that deeply, even with modern equipment and techniques. The soil at those depths is unstable, making it nearly impossible for explorers to make progress.
One question we might have: since the original designers probably had a secret way of accessing the prize at the bottom, why haven’t investigators tried to figure out what that might be — and use it?
On a side note, a critical mind might wonder what exactly is paranormal about Oak Island. OK, we admit it: probably nothing. But in our own defense, this does involve a heavy dose of the unexplained — and so far, inexplicable. Close enough, don’t you think?
#5 Rosslyn Chapel
Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland
Yes, you know it from The Da Vinci Code. That’s so 2005 of you.
Rosslyn Chapel
Here are a few things you might not know about Scotland’s most famous chapel.
For one, Rosslyn Chapel was the first Masonic temple. Many believe that Freemasonry was not founded until the 18th century, but all indications are that the Knights Templar who weren’t killed in Philip the Fair’s inquisition fled to Scotland and carried on their traditions in secret. The Templar descendants built Rosslyn Chapel and went on to turn the Knights’ traditions into the rites of Freemasonry.
But the strangeness doesn’t stop there — it only begins there. Did you know that the chapel is an exact replica of the Temple of Solomon (aka Herod’s Temple) in Jerusalem? The original was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. This has lead some researchers to wonder if the lost treasures of Solomon’s Temple — including the famous Ark of the Covenant — are buried in the sealed secret chamber below Rosslyn’s floor. (Yes, that part of Da Vinci Code was absolutely true: there is a secret chamber beneath the floor, just as in the original Temple of Solomon.)
Rosslyn Chapel also features stone carvings of ears of corn — carved many years before corn was first seen in the New World (it’s native to North America). This could be an amazing coincidence, or it could indicate that the Templar-Masons had knowledge of the Americas that they kept to themselves. The mind boggles.
The Temple’s ceiling, with its arches that feature 213 decorative cubes, is actually sheet music made of stone. Researchers have cracked the code that turned the cipher into music, and it was first performed on May 18, 2007 — inside Rosslyn Chapel, of course. The music is now available on CD.
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The 7 Paranormal Wonders of the World
#7 Easter Island Statues
Easter Island, Pacific Ocean
Easter Island Head
The heads have been silent for long enough. The truth is that they’re not just heads: there are whole torsos hiding underneath the soil. Sure, scientists claim they know how the giant moai statues (more than 500 complete and as many unfinished) were built — if you believe the scientists. And there’s a lot of speculation about how they were transported to their resting places.
Even if this all didn’t require extraterrestrial intervention, as Erich von Daniken speculated in Chariots of the Gods, the moais of Easter Island still command our respect. At up to an imposing 33 feet high, they ought to. And there is some remaining mystery — with no trees on the island, how exactly did the natives get the giant, heavy statues some four miles from their source to their final resting places? Once there, why were they knocked down? Few realize that, until recent restoration attempts, the heads all lay on their sides, the victims of some change in tribal leadership, godhead or cosmic alliance?
#6 Oak Island Mystery Site
Oak Island, Nova Scotia
Oak Island
The year was 1795, and Donald McGinnis and a couple of friends, the teenage sons of settlers on a small island in Nova Scotia, found a large, circular depression in the ground with a tackle block hanging over it. A day of digging later and the boys thought they were on the way to finding Captain Kidd’s hidden treasure — a booty that had become legendary in that time.oakisland.png
Maybe it was pirate treasure — the boys never found out. Neither did the scores of others who spent years trying to dig it up. Some even gave their lives.
Why couldn’t they just dig up a buried treasure? Lots of reasons: for one, in 1802, when diggers had reached a whopping 90 feet beneath the surface, they discovered two things. First, they found an inscription that read “Twenty feet below, two million pounds lie buried.” Second, they found that whatever was below was protected by booby traps: three shafts connected directly to the ocean flooded the pit. Bailing was useless, and attempts to dig alternate shafts failed, too — more flooding booby traps.
What is most fascinating is that after over 200 years, no one knows what’s down there. And not for lack of trying: there have been almost continuous attempts at digging, but it’s still a very difficult proposition, excavating that deeply, even with modern equipment and techniques. The soil at those depths is unstable, making it nearly impossible for explorers to make progress.
One question we might have: since the original designers probably had a secret way of accessing the prize at the bottom, why haven’t investigators tried to figure out what that might be — and use it?
On a side note, a critical mind might wonder what exactly is paranormal about Oak Island. OK, we admit it: probably nothing. But in our own defense, this does involve a heavy dose of the unexplained — and so far, inexplicable. Close enough, don’t you think?
#5 Rosslyn Chapel
Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland
Yes, you know it from The Da Vinci Code. That’s so 2005 of you.
Rosslyn Chapel
Here are a few things you might not know about Scotland’s most famous chapel.
For one, Rosslyn Chapel was the first Masonic temple. Many believe that Freemasonry was not founded until the 18th century, but all indications are that the Knights Templar who weren’t killed in Philip the Fair’s inquisition fled to Scotland and carried on their traditions in secret. The Templar descendants built Rosslyn Chapel and went on to turn the Knights’ traditions into the rites of Freemasonry.
But the strangeness doesn’t stop there — it only begins there. Did you know that the chapel is an exact replica of the Temple of Solomon (aka Herod’s Temple) in Jerusalem? The original was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. This has lead some researchers to wonder if the lost treasures of Solomon’s Temple — including the famous Ark of the Covenant — are buried in the sealed secret chamber below Rosslyn’s floor. (Yes, that part of Da Vinci Code was absolutely true: there is a secret chamber beneath the floor, just as in the original Temple of Solomon.)
Rosslyn Chapel also features stone carvings of ears of corn — carved many years before corn was first seen in the New World (it’s native to North America). This could be an amazing coincidence, or it could indicate that the Templar-Masons had knowledge of the Americas that they kept to themselves. The mind boggles.
The Temple’s ceiling, with its arches that feature 213 decorative cubes, is actually sheet music made of stone. Researchers have cracked the code that turned the cipher into music, and it was first performed on May 18, 2007 — inside Rosslyn Chapel, of course. The music is now available on CD.
CONTINUE READING: www.area51.org/the-7-paranormal-wonders-of-the-world/?utm_content=bufferff598&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer