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  • I remember watching this every week when I was 10 :D

    I love this series!!

    Thanks :)

  • why does THIS one have so many more views than the others? lol

  • anti gravity my ass

  • cracked sent me here!

  • @almostRoseyy me too!

  • fascinating. . .

  • Ah yes the great Florida land boom, the plot to the Marx Brothers' first film The Cocoanuts, lol.

  • lol @ his wife always welcoming the strangers he brought home.

  • 80s!

  • A funny little webble wobble !

  • thanks for posting this, I heard an old Art Bell show mention this episode and I wanted to watch it.. 

  • if i only had a time machine...this would definitely be on my top 5 mystery list to solve.

  • I'll answer my own question: because people would use it to destroy the little guy

  • how could he not tell the world of his super human achievement; would've made us little guys a lot more popular with the ladies:)

  • I love Nimoys voice.

  • 2 thumbs up! One for the show and another for g8trman77. Thank you.

  • he was an alien

  • Wish I knew how to do stuff like this so I can do tours of my place.

  • I remember this episode on TV. Although it may or may not explain "it all exactly." Still, very well done. Thank you for keeping it alive on the internet.

  • In Search Of...what a great show! Still no answers to the mysteries examined by Leonard Nimoy 30 years ago

  • @AnEndlessWarPodcast

    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic by those who are less advanced.

    -Arthur C. Clarke

    (paraphrased)

  • @AnEndlessWarPodcast

    There you go,

    jumping to conclusions again.

    I never said it was magic.

    His work with MAGNETS,not magic,

    indicates he made SCIENTIFIC discoveries that few can replicate.

    Some can:

    I have seen it done-

    in person,NOT on YouTube.

  • @AnEndlessWarPodcast

    Tell Wally to build a Castle.

    Ed's largest block was 60,000lbs.

    That's too heavy for an 18-wheeler to legally move without special permits.

    With no money,electricity or help,

    how did he move and place them?

    Rocks that big would require levers and blocks too big for a hundred pound man to move or hide.

  • You'd be amazed on how many people have never even heard of the CC or the name Edward Leedskalnin even people who have lived in Florida their entire lives it's almost sad. I just admire how resourceful Ed was, look what he did with his mind, hands & some basic tools. Built his own little castle all by himself never telling anyone how he did it taking his secret to the grave but the mystery & stories will never die.

  • Fantastic video.  Thanks for sharing it.

  • As with all true mysteries,

    it remains controversial.

    I'd think that any geologist could determine if this was concrete or limestone.

    When the state university of FL assisted in rebuilding the gateway base(Model T truck hub)the rock between the hub and the limestone was found to be extraterrestrial in origin yet was not a meteorite,

    Strange claim,but there are others.

    True or not,

    the gate has never been the same since they re-worked it.

    Ed made it so that a child could push it with one hand.

  • @jetpoweredgriffin ummm....doesn't this documentary make it clear that it's c-o-r-a-l?? iow: oolite or oolitic limestone.....

  • @ztztzyzy

    Exactly.

    Yet,

    some want to claim that it's concrete made with forms.

    That's what I'm referring to.

    Even the leverage theories would require levers and fulcrums too big for a hundred pound man to move alone,

    especially without being discovered.

    He removed them right from the ground-

    anyone who's worked with rigging heavy loads can tell you that a 60,000lb. rock is nothing one man will move alone.

    The handling materials required are too big to lift&handle alone

  • @jetpoweredgriffin we live in a time were "science" pretends to have all the answers yet, can't explain how the pyramids were built and certainly can't explain how coral castle was built. one fact is clear, ed leedskalnin did in fact build coral castle by himself. he would even say that he knew the secrets of how the pyramids were built. in the documentary, he would stop work when being watched and did not use crane's or other heavy equipment. we (not i) put our limitations on everyone else...

  • @ztztz Thank you for your clear words. It's amazing how dogmatic and narrow-minded so many "scientists" and their supporters can be. Scientism(the actual word that "scientist" comes from) is so prone to abuse. Much like "Christ" and "christianity", they can actually end up opposed, especially at uncomfortable or unpopular points of conclusion. Move a little bit off and with time human ego can achieve horrid things- much more readily than the beautiful ones. Back to Ed- he still inspires me.
  • @ztztzyzy

    PS

    My favorite quote from Ed.

    "Reader, if for any reason you do not like the things I say in this little book,

    I left you just as much space as I used so you can write your own opinion opposite it....

    and see if you can do any better!"

    The Author,

    Edward Leedskalnin

  • That's amazing and creepy at the same time. I can't help but think how if he had lived hundreds of years earlier he would have been killed, and I wonder what marvelous things could have been done if the people who were capable of doing them weren't executed for witchcraft.

  • S-word in the S-tone. He built this by working with naturally flowing energy that we have been way out of tune with. Will be far more available over the next few years as we are forced to change our ways. (Japan reactors = example of this)

    Nikola Tesla always said work in harmony with nature or there would be massive problems in the future...Since greed took over and led us to where we are today, now we have to see the resulting karma to push us in the right direction.

  • I have loved this episode since I was young, and always watch it when I need inspiration.

    I have dedicated the last 6 months of my life to solving the enigma of Ed Leedskalnin and the Coral Castle, and I have some new information. I havent solved the whole puzzle, but I have found a few pieces that no one knew existed until now. Please visit my channel, watch my vids, do your research, and feel free to comment. Even those of you jaded by the subject would find new life in the new information.

  • BossBass7o7 would'nt believe crap stinks unless he steps in it.

  • man, i always loved this show

  • So I'm thinking at this point that Minecraft is basically an Ed Leedskalnin simulator.

  • a proud latvian i am watching this.

  • What a load of hooey!

  • @BossBass7o7

    Explain how he did it.

  • One of the most interesting places in the US.

    I think he could have used, manipulated the Earth's gravitational field somehow or had spirits helping him.

  • ww.youtube.com/watch?v=oK1Rzch­89Dw

  • huh

    

  • Coral is actually very light, kind of like Styrofoam.

    Most of it is just empty space - air.

  • @91238673 Coral Castle is made from Limestone, the toughest on earth and heavy ;)

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  • Sorry, to clarify - Below, I meant to say electromagnetic fields.

  • It was magnets. He has writings on the subject published & available. Scientists today are able to levitate small objects w/magnetic fields. Google it. The power of magnetic fields was known to many civilizations & has been lost to history or is still a closely guarded secret (Masons, for example).

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  • I think all that stuff is hardened concrete they poured on-site.

  • @stopglobalswarming if you read Leedskalnin's own diary he says he discovered the secrets of the building of the pyramids,and now we know that the pyramids are made of limestone cement,only the casing stones are quarried and cut stone. So you are correct in the assumption. Isn't Occam's razor great?peace

  • I loved this series as a kid in the 70's - in Australia the series intro music were the first few bars of Mahlers 5th symphony 'da-da-da-daaah...da-da-da-daa­ah...da-da-da-DAAAH!!!'

    Is the episode about the lost pilgrim colony on the island of Roanoke on here too...?

  • YIKES! I'm not used to seeing Mr. Spock with a 'stache. :)

  • Love this tv series. When will it be released properly on DVD/Blu-Ray?!

  • Would life be as interesting as it is if there were no mysteries?

  • @peecee1384 As long as we are finite in our intelligence, there will always be new questions and therefore new mysteries. Since nothing finite can never exceed its own finitude, we're destined to always be asking questions.

  • @EdMahoney19 New questions do not necessarily create new mysteries. Only questions that cannot be answered do that.

  • @EdMahoney19 In fact, it may be the mysteries that create the questions!

  • nimoy is an alien

  • i bet you he knew a very deep secret about gravity, because hes only 5 foot and not even 100 pounds and by himself he lifted stone weighing over 10 tons. he knew a secret the stone masons knew, the Egyptians etc.

  • @bboyloco3 I believe he might have rediscovered the trick involving sliding slabs across long distances using sticks and sand.

  • @Popcultureguy3000 well how are you supose to place a 2 ton stone on top of another with some sticks and sand?

  • @bboyloco3 Logs actually. You gather a bunch of evenly sized logs and slid the slabs across the sand, replacing one log with another as it moves forward.

  • @Brewchief2002 You are correct. Good insight on your part.

  • Howdy stranger, oh you have TB, come into our home please.

  • he is like the race on Stargate (the tv series) as known as the (sp) Aspguard...

  • one shouldnt discount any possibilitys even the mundane-research jim solley-michel barsoum-guy demortier

  • Thanks Beach House :)

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  • @TurboShorts

    The answer is prim numbers

    watch?v=OD0xfWjOLLM

    Tell me what you think?

  • @pem10777 your link doesnt work

  • at last this recreeation is a bit better than the st.germain one...

  • love that old car

  • Its a fascinating subject Coral Castle, but there is way too much speculation around it. Even this reconstruction is totally misleading. How ever the guy moved the rocks he did it scientifically, not with magic (well I hope not...lol). Its obvious he knew something the rest of us didn't though. Very cool but very frustrating at the same time...lol.

  • @123backinyerface Actually, what you call 'magic' IS science and it has a scientific explanation. Ever hear of psychic abilities? Truth is it's all just ways of manipulating energy. EVERYTHING is energy. For ex. if you talk to a chiropractor they'll tell you that our 'life-force' runs down our spine from the head and if this energy flow is disrupted it causes subluxation. Look it up, interesting stuff. But back to the point, things like telekinesis are real and that's how he built this castle.

  • @MastaDRD I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but there is no scientific proof for magic, psychic abilities, telekinesis, or even chiropractors for that matter. However, if you have proof of any of these supernatural powers you should contact the James Randi Educational Foundation. They offer a million dollar prize to anyone who can provide evidence for such claims. Seems to me that if someone out could they would have already claimed it.

  • @mcguffin7 Have you ever done meditation, mcguffin7? Have you ever felt energy running through your body, through your chakras? Ever seen your aura and the auras of others?  I have. And I'm not even an 'experienced' yogi or anything, I just started learning about this stuff seriously in the last month. As for that cash prize, when I've progressed enough that I can use the more tangible abilities I'll be sure to give them a ring. :)

  • @MastaDRD Yes, I regularly practice meditation, though I don't see how that makes any difference. I was specifically referring to your statement that psychic abilities were science and had a scientific explanation. No such abilities have ever been scientifically verified. Period. Even if you practice for 50 years whatever "stuff" it is you've been learning, you will not be able to perform any kind of "magic" that can be proven real. Sorry if that's a let down!

  • @mcguffin7 Well I'm sorry you feel that way. But I guess, when I get my cash prize you'll remember this.

  • @123backinyerface In the words of Arthur C. Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"....definitely seems like magic to me. :o)

  • Too this day, they still don't know how he did it. He took the secret to his grave.

    Ed Lee = John Titor?

  • Boy! This show has come a long way...In fact, we now have 'Destination Truth' and 'Ghost Hunters'. I think they need to revive this one.

  • Off topic. But does anyone here ever notice that when you come to YouTube to watch some videos you sometimes end up arguing with someone? At first you pause the vid to make your comments and replies, eventually you don't bother pausing after so much arguing, and soon the video is done playing,, and you don't even notice, and that doesn't matter anymore, because you had forgotten what you came to YouTube for in the first place, and really don't care about the vid anymore, Good times.

  • @HaligonianType1 there is a lot of angry confused people today ' reason # 1

  • @HaligonianType1 yep. I think there are alot of people who just like to start shit and be assholes, and that alot of people really have nothing better to do with themselves except argue online. Have you ever noticed how the people who are most opinionated online are the most socially awkward in real life? I have.

  • @nickhalonerd I agree. He looks like that guy that used to go to school with me. Remember him?

  • Who else got here because they searched "search"?

    .

    If you did, thumbs the fuck up.

  • 3:10 music FTW

  • levitation? is this for real lol. ive seen a man build monoliths without modern machinery by himself without levitation, he used counterweights and blocks of wood and pebbles

  • @robertwc82 HAHAHA Then that must be what Ed did.

  • @robertwc82

    none of his stones were 22 tons though.... there were about 1-5 the ones he built with

  • @jaymcd84 the principles still the same, it would just require more counter-weights and more time. but if you want to believe it was done with levitation based on pure speculation, be my guest. but dont claim it must have been levitation because you cant conceive any other method, thats just the argument from ignorance fallacy and i have demonstrated that levitation is not the only possibility. just because you dont know an explanation doesnt make a made up explanation correct

  • @robertwc82

    until anything is proven i can believe the gas monkeys farted out their ass is the solution to how these things were raised. its mysterious, and with all of the technology and science discovered that we have today.... that you believe it was simple mechanisms and lever and pulleys that did it is about as accurate as my assumptions. i suggest you read up on some Feynman and electromagnetism

  • @jaymcd84 ever heard of Occam's razor? i suggest you wiki it or something

    i know enough about electromagnetism to see what you are infering, but again, Occam's razor!

    it CAN be done with weights, levers and frames with wooden chocks, the only problem with that explanation is, it is too mundane for you. try interperating reality objectively instead of how you feel you would like it to be

    if you want magic look no further than the computer, microwave, radio, TV, ect. thats real magic

  • @robertwc82

    of course ive heard of Occam's razor, from like 5th grade science. easiest explanation blah blah. exactly what my point was. if you had any scientific knowledge you would KNOW that it would be physically easier to use some sort of field that can levitate. you cannot assume the other method is the easiest because it cannot even be done! the easiest explanation to everyone is that it was some other method other than boards and ropes. this is why its a mystery! tv, radio.. all the same

  • @jaymcd84 well, go back to grade 5 because by the simple they did not mean physically easy.

    Occam's razor states that when ever you are trying tu explain a phenomanon, dont go pulling bullshit assumptions out your arse

    thats Occam's razor not what ever required the least physical effort

  • @robertwc82

    i like how you go reasearch how to spell Occam's razor research the actual meaning haha. like feynman says(roughly) "you can argue about who knows the name of a bird, but in the end you will have learned nothing of the bird" (bird is our subject were discussing which is coral castle. in other words youre wasting my time and not contributing to anything at all. go ahead and believe there are no wonders of the universe and that everything is stale matter that is moved by only matter

  • @robertwc82

    dont ya hate how it cuts you off because of the limited text you can write? anywho i think theres something more than traditional methods, maybe they were used also, but something had to have made the blocks weigh less. there's a mysterious world in wave resonance, frequencies. if you haven't heard of string theory or M-theory i suggest you take a look at some of that stuff. i got some pretty cool science and educational quantum videos in my favorites. take a peek. you can only lean

  • @jaymcd84 i mean if you were going to go to the trouble of using high tech machines and hiding it, wouldnt it be easy to use low tech machines like cranes and hide it?

    you are right it is a mysterious world, and reality is way more bizzare than fiction.

    so dont waste your time on fictions

  • @robertwc82

    Occam's razor i can't get over that. You know that occam's razor applied to the earth being flat and the sun rotating around the earth? and the sky being like soup with raisins in the sky? HAHA Occam's razor. please.... take you SIMPLE explanations and un-scientific mind elsewhere. a real scientist does not assume, they research and study and experiment. i don't know what you call yourself but i can assure you, you're not a scientist.

  • @jaymcd84 again, let me clatify to you what Occam's razor states as you still seem to be a bit confused.

    when explaining a PHENOMENON do NOT use assumptions you pulled out your arse.

    i can not make it any clearer.

    now your explantion requires alot of assumptions there for it is not the most likely explanation.

    saying the earth is flat is just as much a presumption the earth is round, we know the earth is a sphere because of OBSERVATION.

  • @robertwc82 and when did i call my self a scientist?

    im not saying its impossible he used levitation. im saying its not likely, but if you would like to demonstrate otherwise, why dont you go get some evidence and prove it.

    i'm not making any claims of how he did it, all im saying is levitation is the least likely (not impossible but highly improbable). Are you making a claim that he did use it?

    are you claiming its the most likely explanation?

  • @robertwc82

     Phenomenomenomenomenom.

  • @robertwc82 I shave with Occam'r razor.

  • I MADE made JUST WAY TOO MANY earthquakes WITH TOO MANY GIRLS THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW...

    ALL OF THEM HAD MOMENTS OF BLISSFUL ECSTASY... LIKE TOO MANY MULTIPLE TIMES... LIKE A WHALES BLOWING WATERS... YEAH..VICTORIES. THEY SAID I'VE BEEN TAKEN THEM TO THE SPACE... WELL, I DON'T WANNA BRAG...lol

  • thank you

  • hsld

  • Tesla made earthquakes in 1899.

    September 3rd, 1899

    September 6th, 1899

    September 9th, 1899

    "If you only knew the mag nificence of the three, the six and the nine;

    then you would have a KEY to the universe." --NIKOLA TESLA

    (AFTER MAKING EARTHQUAKES)

  • I've been to visit the coral castle a few times.

    Leonard Nimoy... still kicking on the hit TV series "Fringe"

  • Funniest thing, everybody seems to focus on how he could lift those things... you kinda left one things... even if he used some lever type to lift them, do you have any idea how hard it would be to cut these stone right from the ground? And those arent shitty stones they are cut with the precision of a master.Try to explain that with your wooden pole theory :P

  • @maevista HAHAH There is one video that has CGI Showing how one of the archways has a 2 piece top that would absolutely be placed simultaneously in order to balance. How the FUCK?!

  • I will give you a clue guys, Ed really sang with his FLYWHEEL, like the report of some neighbor, that Ed sounds like he was singing during the night. I know it is true.

    Those of you who really what to know how Ed did it try to read all books of this people:

    John Keely, Walter Russel, Nikola Tesla, all people who study sound.

    Read this subject: Resonance,Sound,Cymatics,Torsi­on Energy,Schuman Cavity, High-spin rate elements,Piezo Crystal effect, Pyramid,Geomancy,Magnetic Current.

    Read all that!

  • Just what makes that little ole ant. Think he'll move that rubber tree plant?

    Anyone knows an ant can't, move a rubber tree plant.

    {But he's got hi-i-igh hopes, he's got hi-i-igh hopes}

    {He's got high apple pi-i-ie-in-the-sk-y-y hopes}

    So, any time you're gettin' low, 'stead of lettin' go, just remember that ant

    Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant (Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant)

    {Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant}

  • ROPE PULLEY

  • @deltapunk21 Too heavy for rope and pulley. rope would shear and snap, pulley would collapse and fail. when you are talking in the tons of pounds, you are talking cranes, dude.

  • lol Leonard Nimoy with a 70s mustache.

    I used to like this show. But anyone who thinks that Edward Leedskalnin, or the builders of Stonehenge and the Pyramids, must have used anti-gravity (or alien help) to build their master works-- these people are underestimating the ingenuity of the human race.

    Google 'Wally Worthington Stonehenge'. This retired construction worker uses simple leverage to move large blocks of stone, and recreate Stonehenge.

  • Anyone watching from a distance might see Worthington 'walk' a large block of stone from one fulcrum stone to another, and think he was using some magic power. I think that's what Leedskalnin's neighbors saw.

    Trying to use magic to explain this does an injustice to a very determined, clever man.

  • @LemmeLieHere

    If it wasthat simple why was mr leedskalnin so protective of what he did, and not let anyone see it? Plus to move all the pieces of coral castle onto a flatbed so quickly, I feel it's something else.

  • I think that Ed was a kiddy toucher.

  • that background tune is freaken creepy. now i remember why i hated this show as a kid, i couldn't ever get to sleep. especially when they did shows on ghosts and ufo's (with creepy music).

    on a different topic - i bet that ford model T is worth a lot these days!!!!

  • I have read Ed's book, and read all the book that He have read. If you have the money to purchase all those things in the photo while Ed's working in the FLYWHEEL, I can prove it to you! To learn how He manage to build Coral Castle, all we have to do learn some of the book that He have read, and follow Ed's principle in Magnetic Current! Ed didn't hide His secret its all around Coral Castle and in His Book Magnetic Current.

  • wat tolal bullshit...no one can explain how he did it....the man was clever than all of the sciencetist who study that sort of stuff lol ...nobody knows how he did it,....if you know how he did it,than prove it,cause all the theory bullshit is wat it is

  • research TESLA and learn.

  • @niueanlaho this guy might have the answer, or part of it:

    /watch?v=-K7q20VzwVs

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  • He knew how to channel magnetism into the rocks (but not let it out) until enough built up to make the huge stones lift themselves. Water was the diamagnetic he used with a few coils of wire (which were wrapped around the stones a certian number of times) and his magnetic generator started by a certian frequency rang two times. When he had the stone moved into position he would slowly release the magnetic feild built up inside the stone and there it would remain for us all to see.

  • I dont believe his life was waisted i work for an engineering company and know this kind of information would be priceless. I think the whole story is much much deeper than just a failed romance this man went to the otherside of the world to do something he could have remained in europe to do. This is truely a facsinating story and Mr Leedskalnin was an enigma of genius preportions.

  • @littlegypsy71 Hey, it's easy man; Earth's sinewave of over 9hz of magnetic flux becomes like a sawtooth when riding on a sawtooth carrier. Each revolution of the wheel would discharge this CAPACITOR which is why it's shaped like a watertight cup; +ions/slow positrons are heavy. The monopolar energy flow moves against +ions which have mass. It's really simple physics. My vids show more. My wheel finished now but timing setup ; out of money for it right now.

  • it had important scientific ramifications which he never passed down to anyone. What a waisted life he lived.

  • I am from Latvia and I have never heard this story before, I am amazed

  • SPACEMAN!!!!!

  • in search of rocks! the one about ghosts and bigfoot is awesome!

  • this is my favourite episode

  • He is or was a extraterrestrial.

  • @okimas

    yeah just like jesus right ? fucking dickheads like you should be shot in the face.

  • @OLYiP6XcppYs4

    What are you going on about? I didn't mention anything about Jesus. You did. I'm sorry you are misinformed, and very confused.

  • @okimas

    my shit is extraterrestrial.

  • @OLYiP6XcppYs4

    There you go again, I'm sorry something must be wrong with you. I do not get what your trying to get at.

  • The force is with him. He's Yoda in disguise.

  • Spock doesn't need to kiss Yoda ass

  • this guy is awesome

  • The man was clearly a fucking wizard of some sort. Burn him!

    But seriously, this is some weird stuff. I would have loved to meet the guy lol, I bet he does great party tricks :p

  • Black magic.

  • @Coribec

    with black magic i can turn you into a dick.

  • crazy story crazy books and who where the guys who beat him up?didn t like what he was showing the world . would love to have talked to ed , crazy ed lol

  • Oh the knowledge and will of the hermit

  • He did it using lay(sp?) lines. Ive been there and they have exhibits showing how he did it. Its crazy how you can change the orientation of the object and it suddenly becomes manageable.

  • Gumby music @ 3:43 onwards - episode: Yard Work Made Easy. LOL

  • he did it with the flywheel duh

  • this is very interesting, i'm definitely gonna have to go there next time i go to Florida

  • selfish for ed to not have shared his secretes before he died. asshole.

  • he did he left all the secrets he ever discovered right at coral castle. it filters out the fuckheads that want everything but dont want to do the work. here is the water you have been led to it, i can't make you drink it is probably what ed would say to you right now. take off the blindfold

  • Good point. Can't have crackheads moving tons of coral now can we?

  • mrqcrew, I agree. If Ed was a hot women, he would have been a cock-tease.

  • is this still there now ?

  • Yep, it sure is. It's near Miami. Next time I go to Florida, I'm taking the tour.

  • im surprised no one has tried to vandalize it or destroy it

  • WE have the` original Post Office` Ed walked to in Homestead that we rent as apartments for over 40 years made of the SAME CORAL ROCK quarry !!!! He was no Asshole . He was a foriegner in the KLAN Territory and treatede VERY disrespectfully by most being a "FERaNER "! He had no one to trust , was a dreamer and ONLY lived from thre Latvian Woman who jilted him as a young made . Go to the place and liik at the plank chainnhammock he slept in for all those years surronded bypeople who thinkWIERDO

  • I've been here its a great vibration on the grounds

  • I just got finished reading the book. I just recently returned it to my friend and business partner, Charlie Case.

  • Which book?

  • Waiting for Agnes.

  • Interesting, but Ed did not write that book ... I'm searching for the title of the books / pamphlets he wrote ... I noticed them in the gift shop when I visited the park back in 06 but neglected to get a copy ... what regret

  • There is no doubt in my mind that this castle was built with methods unknown to even the most skilled engineers. Doubting Thomases and naysayers aside, I think this was a one-in-a-million human doing something no one else could achieve. The facts bear this out. Today people would call him a charlatan...but no one can deny the historical proof!

  • Wow this was in a Mysteries Magazine where to the Fascist leader Grimes had an article on the cat people published too.

  • Ed Leedskanlin was a mason in Latvia, no, not the secret society type. And he worked as a lumberjack in Canada. So that would explain how he could build the Castle. There are photographs of Ed building the thing in fact.

  • So how did he do it? I am drooling for the information.

  • magnetism...

    keep looking for the documentaries on youtube about this subject, google for his book.. and other stuff like these.

  • Excuse me for having to ask this, but are you really 48 years old?

    Ed Leedskanlin built this castle ALONE, without cranes or heaving lifting equipment.

    whether he's a stone mason or not is totally irrelevant as no one could move blocks of stone that big unaided.

    Your totally ill-considered comment defies logic or any kind of consideration.

  • Yes I am 48 years old, as if that mattered, but I do realize that he built the alone, but if you were to look at the photos he was lifting his blocks with a large tripod made of telephone poles perhaps 25 feet tall, using chains and a block and tackle system. Now I could consider that he used some mystical power like magnetic vortices, whatever that means but since I am 48, and not 12, I am going for the logical explanation.