oohhh.I watched a video which explains this case pretty convincingly, including footage of a guy who retraces the steps to the roof and the tank. It's boringly possible to end up in the tank naturally. I'll post it later.
It's a very good channel overall. Well worth a look if you like the kind of things in this thread.oohhh.
Now this is interesting!
Haha, they're pretty good. I discovered the channel a while ago. Binge watched it in its entirety. I have no regrets.Damn you now Ive spent the past hour watching his videos
Whatever happened to Richey Edwards of the manic Street Preachers, If you were large into britpop in the 90s this is one of those mysteries that has kind of endured....He vanished without a trace in the mid 90s...Parents eventually declared him presumed dead in the late 2000s for legal reasons, but nothing was ever confirmed
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richey_Edwards
The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident, also known as the Washington flap, the Washington National Airport Sightings, or the Invasion of Washington, was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 12 to July 29, 1952, over Washington, D.C. The most publicized sightings took place on consecutive weekends, July 19–20 and July 26–27. UFO historian Curtis Peebles called the incident "the climax of the 1952 (UFO) flap" - "Never before or after did Project Blue Book and the Air Force undergo such a tidal wave of (UFO) reports."
The structure comprises numerous megalithic stones, mostly limestone formed from coral, each weighing several tons.[2] It is currently a privately operated tourist attraction. Coral Castle is noted for legends surrounding its creation that claim it was built single-handedly by Leedskalnin using reverse magnetism or supernatural abilities to move and carve numerous stones, each weighing many tons.
I came across that one because of a Billy Idol song.Coral Castle is a good one
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Apparently this this popped up almost overnight and the claim is that one guy designed and built the whole thing, no one has ever shown how he could have done it.
I came across that one because of a Billy Idol song.
It's been explained, though.
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Mystery of the Coral Castle Explained
The Coral Castle in Florida is an amazing feat of engineering, although it's not technically a castle — or made out of coral.www.livescience.com
Google it, it's been explained many times. There's no mystery.It just sort of posits that it can be done but doesn't really provide anything in the way of material evidence of how he actually did it.
The castle has been featured in dozens of magazines and books on the unexplained, as well as on television shows such as "In Search Of," "That's Incredible" and "Ripley's Believe It Or Not."
British rocker Billy Idol even wrote a hit song about Leedskalnin's story, "Sweet Sixteen."
Over the decades, many stories and wild theories have emerged about Leedskalnin and his castle. Some say he levitated the blocks with his mind, or by singing to the stones. Others suggest Leedskalnin had arcane knowledge of magnetism and so-called "earth energies." One author suggested that perhaps Leedskalnin found that "there's no such thing as gravity." Since science supposedly could not explain the feat, wild speculation took hold.
It's easy to claim the castle defies scientific explanation, but searches for the investigations made by perplexed and baffled scientists come up empty. Despite the information on their Web site, the Coral Castle information booth was unable to identify a single scientist or engineer who had specifically examined the castle. This puts the claim in a whole new light, since "hasn't explained" is clearly not the same as "can't explain."
There is one detail that virtually all agree on: since the reclusive Leedskalnin spent nearly thirty years working mostly at night and away from prying eyes, no one actually saw him move the coral. Since no one saw the blocks actually being moved, no one can state for certain that the task was accomplished by Leedskalnin alone. The claim that Leedskalnin didn't use modern (post-1920s) tools is obviously true, but the mistake is in assuming that modern tools are required to move the large blocks of coral.
Ultimately—and ironically—the solution may lie in Leedskalnin's own simple explanation: that he did it using principles of weight and leverage. "I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids," he said, employing the same methods used by ancient Egyptians. If Leedskalnin was being truthful, then the mystery is solved, for the methods by which the Egyptian pyramids could be constructed are well understood (see, for example, Mark Lehner's 1997 book The Complete Pyramids).
Photos exist of large tripods, pulleys, and winches at the Coral Castle site, and several sources (e.g., Wallace Wallington's Web site http://www.theforgottentechnology.com) demonstrate how massive weights can be moved by one or two people using simple physics. (The comparisons to Egypt's pyramids are a red herring; there are vast differences in weight, material, and complexity between the castle's coral slabs and the huge stone pyramids at Giza. Because coral is porous, large blocks appear heavier than they actually are.)
Many mystery mongers arrogantly assume that those living in earlier times (such as Leedskalnin, or the ancient Egyptians) were not clever or resourceful enough to possibly have created impressive engineering feats without extraterrestial aid or mysterious powers. This view betrays an ignorance of history and sadly underestimates human ingenuity. It seems likely that if scientists haven't explained the Coral Castle specifically, it's because there's little to "explain." The Coral Castle mystery seems to be simply a matter of poorly-informed people who reject a mundane reality in favor of a fanciful myth.
Benjamin Radford is managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, and co-author of "Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking."
Google it, it's been explained many times. There's no mystery.
There is literally footage of him doing it.
It's 8 and a half minutes long, and shows you footage of him using pulleys to move the coral, and it thoroughly explains everything. You don't have a spare 8 and a half minutes?Timestamp it at the part with the footage
It's 8 and a half minutes long, and shows you footage of him using pulleys to move the coral, and it thoroughly explains everything. You don't have a spare 8 and a half minutes?
Start at 1.10.
It's 8 and a half minutes long, and shows you footage of him using pulleys to move the coral, and it thoroughly explains everything. You don't have a spare 8 and a half minutes?
Start at 1.10.
It was posted here in 2013 and was part of an installment in Universal Pictures' "Person-Oddity" series.I was at work and browsing the video on my phone and I just wanted to see the footage of him if there was any. I'd like to look into the source of this video which had never been seen before 2017. It's weird that it isn't on the wikipedia page, no idea who this Darren Nemeth guy is.
Yes, he used simple machines and it took him years to do. Where's the mystery here? Also, it was in the 30's, video cameras weren't exactly prevalent. Not like the smartphone era we live in today.
I recommend reading The Mothman Prophecies (which is nothing like the movie). A whacky but fascinating book.![]()
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I recommend reading The Mothman Prophecies (which is nothing like the movie). A whacky but fascinating book.
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Obviously dissapearance of MH370 and with my aviatic interestest also this:
From those which weren't posted so far is Denver Airport for me, it's just strange and why the airport is so big, when traffic is not that high, etc...
Jack the ripper is thought to have been HH Holmes on account of his medical knowledge and apparent yanky twangI love diving into mysteries. What about the Jack the Ripper?
This is so fucked up. I'm not starting a thread for it, and it looks technically 'unsolved' to me, so in here it goes. Be interested to see what other people think. Generally when I hear 'the last person to see the victim alive' I think 'you did it!'