Who Was The Mysterious Ed Leedskalnin, Creator of the Coral Castle?
When one thinks of iconic 20th century pioneers in the fields of engineering and electromagnetism, the genius of Nikola Tesla usually comes to mind. But rarely is the name Ed Leedskalnin mentioned; a man who single-handedly constructed one of the most fascinating monoliths – the Coral Castle – claiming he implemented secrets used by the Ancient Egyptians’ to build the pyramids.
Leedskalnin’s story is a strange one, and he did his best to maintain a mysterious legacy through cryptic messages, symbols, and hints in his work. And it all began when he immigrated to the United States from Riga, Latvia at the age of 26, heartbroken his teenage bride-to-be Agnes Scuff, left him the day they were to be married.
Upon moving to the U.S., Leedskalnin suffered from tuberculosis and was told he had mere months to live, until the kindness of a local doctor led to his full recovery. Revitalized, he bought a plot of land in Florida City for $12 – a 4,000 ft.-thick bed of coral limestone under a thin layer of topsoil – and began construction on a project he called “Rock Gate Park.” It was given this name due to the 9-ton slab of stone at its gate, which was engineered so that a child could push it open.
Leedskalnin eventually moved the Coral Castle to Homestead, FL where it remains to this day. When he moved it he hired a truck and a driver, but somehow loaded the slabs onto the truckbed alone, under the cover of night, reconstructing them by himself in their current location.
Leedskalnin stood a mere five-feet-tall and weighed barely over 100 pounds.
How Was the Coral Castle Built?
Leedskalnin had a fascination with magnetism and developed an interesting worldview based around it. In addition to creating Coral Castle, he published several pamphlets outlining a universal theory of electromagnetism and how it pertained to life on Earth. He believed nearly every function of life could be reduced to the interaction between Earth’s north and south poles, and tiny magnets contained in our bodies and every organism on Earth.
This led many to speculate that Leedskalnin used some type of magnetic levitation or resonance to lift the incredibly dense coral rock while constructing his park, though the topic has been highly debated.
While many point to images showing Leedskalnin’s use of simple pulleys and levers, others remain skeptical. He maintained that he had a strong understanding of the laws of weight and leverage, though it’s difficult to imagine him – the lean specimen he was – hoisting 30-ton blocks 20 feet in the air, entirely unassisted.
“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!” –Ed Leedskalnin
Long after his death, the 9-ton gate at the entrance to Coral Castle stopped rotating as easily as it once did. To fix it, a 20-ton crane was brought in to remove, inspect, and repair it to working order. It quickly became apparent that Leedskalnin had drilled a perfectly round hole through the center of the slab without the use of power tools, fixing a metal pole between two truck bearings.
Adding to the mystery are the myriad remnants of an electromagnetic device in a chamber beneath the Coral Castle. There, one finds wires wrapped around bottles and odd devices with magnets and chains, appearing to resemble a generator of some sort. Next to the generator are two long metal poles reaching down beneath the ground, similar to the anode and cathode of a battery.
In the middle of the device is a flywheel made of concrete and magnets and shaped like a four-leaf clover. Many believe this was a perpetual motion device, based on claims from Leedskalnin’s pamphlet Magnetic Currents. When one holds a compass to the device and cranks it, the compass needle spins, indicating the magnets are set opposite in polarity.
Other features of the castle show that Leedskalnin had a strong grasp on astronomy. For example, the Polaris “telescope” built of coral rock aligns itself with the eponymous star through crosshairs constructed from metal wire. Though the “telescope” is simply a hole drilled through rock, it’s alignment is precise, adding itself to sundials and other primitive forms of celestial measurement devices Leedskalnin designed with utmost precision.
Pictures of Coral Castle
Carvings sit on top of a wall on the Coral Castle in tropical Florida
Carved rock telescope at Coral Castle in Florida
Garden landscaping at Coral Castle, Florida
Table and chair carved out of coral
Ed Leedskalnin’s electromagnetic device
The Coral Castle has captivated the minds of many, including famous rockstar Billy Idol, whose song “Sweet Sixteen” found its muse in Leedskalnin’s story or love and heartbreak. Idol wrote the song after watching an episode of Leonard Nemoy’s series, “In Search of…” recounting the story of the man behind the Coral Castle.
Leedskalnin’s secrets in constructing the Coral Castle may forever remain a secret unless someone with enough interest and affinity for the strange world of forbidden science and electromagnetism can decode his cyphered clues. For now, the Castle remains a tourist destination in Florida, open for anyone to marvel at his wondrous creation.
When Leedskalnin spoke of tiny magnets in the human body could he have been referencing magnetite? Watch this short below:
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A 12-Year-Old Boy is Youngest Person to Achieve Nuclear Fusion
Jackson Oswalt has become the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion at the age of 12 years old. Through trial and error, and $10,000 of equipment purchased on the internet, Oswalt built a homemade nuclear fusion reactor in his room, baffling his parents and members of the scientific community.
Though now age 14, experiments Oswalt conducted two years ago were verified by the internet hobbyist group, Open Source Fusor Research Consortium (OSFRC). He beat out the previous record holder, Taylor Wilson, who performed the feat at age 14.
“The start of the process was just learning about what other people had done with their fusion reactors,” Jackson said in an interview with Fox News. “After that, I assembled a list of parts I needed. I got those parts off eBay primarily and then oftentimes the parts that I managed to scrounge off of eBay weren’t exactly what I needed. So, I’d have to modify them to be able to do what I needed to do for my project.”
Hailing from Memphis, Tenn., Oswalt said he decided he didn’t want to waste his time on video games or other typical adolescent activities, instead finding himself enamored with science and, more specifically, nuclear physics.
After reading about his predecessor, Oswalt decided he could beat Wilson’s record and began researching the gear he would need to build a high-volt, atom smashing, plasma reactor in his bedroom.
Jackson Oswalt next to his nuclear fusion reactor via FoxNews.com
Combing through the OSFRC’s online forums and working under the supervision of his dad, Oswalt built a 50,000 volt reactor in about a year, achieving the desired results of his experiment just hours before his 13th birthday.
Nuclear fusion is the same reaction that powers our sun and other stars, but on a much larger scale. In theory, a successful nuclear reactor could provide clean, unlimited energy to the world eliminating our reliance on finite fossil fuels that pollute the planet. Some believe this technology has already been realized and suppressed at the behest of corporate interests in oil and gas.
If a 12-year-old kid can create a nuclear fusion reactor in his room, why can’t the most advanced energy facilities in the world create one on a larger scale?
The trick to achieving successful fusion is to build a reactor that outputs more energy than is put in, and scientists at MIT have come close to building such a mechanism. In 2016, the university’s Alcator C-Mod tokamak reactor achieved a 16 percent increase from a 2005 record when it reached a temperature of 35 million Celsius for a period of two seconds. Though conveniently, funding for the reactor from the US Department of Energy ended the following day, despite their success.
More recently, scientists have begun to construct a larger tokamak reactor, which uses a toroidal apparatus to produce fusion in plasma, in southern France. This reactor will be 800 times the size of MIT’s Alcator C-mod reactor, but won’t be complete for another 15 to 20 years.
And while several other private firms are working on similar tokamak reactors of their own, its surprising there isn’t more government investment in this technology when it portends a future of clean limitless energy.
Is this because it’s actively being suppressed?
For more on suppressed technology check out Disclosure with Dr. Steven Greer:Â
