[UA] The UAest Place On Earth (or, at least, Colorado)

[Doug Stalker]

>That's not the only weird, hand-built castle in the US. Isn't there a
castle
>built out of big blocks of Coral somewhere in Florida? Built to Egyptian
>numerological standards. I can't remember the name of the creator- he did
>everything himself, put down the "Secrets" of the coral castle in the
>notebook, and died one night of exposure.
>The notebook vanished.

>Anyone else know what i'm talking about?

Google knows.


http://www.coralcastle.com/


Summarizing:

The Coral Castle originally called "Rock Gate Park", was built by one man,
working alone. It took him 20 years to build - from 1920 to 1940. His name
is  Edward Leedskalnin. Ed was born in Latvia in 1887 and died in Miami in
1951. He  was 64.

When Ed was 26, he was engaged to marry Agnes Scuffs who was 10 years
younger  than he was. He always referred to her as "Sweet Sixteen". On the
day before the  wedding, she told Ed she did not want to marry him because
he was too old and  too poor.
Jilted on the eve of his wedding, Edward Leedskalnin embarked on a journey 
that would culminate in one of the world's most remarkable accomplishments.
Over  a period of twenty years, he sculpted and carved over 1,100 tons of
coral rock.

Since it is documented that no one ever witnessed Ed's labor in building his
rock gate park, some say he had  supernatural powers. Ed would only say that
he knew the secrets used to build  the ancient pyramids and if he could
learn them, you could too!



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