Welcome to Miami, a city of beaches, bars, sun and fun! When you walk through the wide beaches of Miami, among naked tanned bodies of all shapes and colors, loud music and the smells of tanning oils, it’s hard to think about anything other than a joy of life. But Miami has its secrets, and I don’t mean its criminal stories, not even the most famous one, which was the murder of Gianni Versace outside the gate of his own villa. Miami has secrets out of this world…
Located on the outskirts of Miami, in the town of Homestead, the Coral Castle attracts more and more researchers of unexplained phenomena. If it weren’t for a broken heart and a sad love story, Coral Castle probably would never have been made.
In 1887, Ed Leedskalnin was born near Riga, Latvia. He was born into a poor family of stonemasons and apart from a few classes of elementary school he had no education. Certainly, however, the knowledge about the profession of stonemasons was considerable in the family, and this is important for the history of Ed and Coral Castle. Ed, at the age of 26, fell in love with a young, 10 years younger Agnes Schuvs. The couple was engaged, but the day before the wedding, Agnes broke off the engagement. Probably the reason for the change of mind by Ed’s fiancée was the poor prospects of the chosen one and the lack of any wealth. It was 1912. Ed’s broken heart banished him first from Latvia and then from Europe. He ended up in Canada, then passing through the United States and finally stopped in Florida. But Agnes never left Ed’s heart. In her memory, he began to build the Rock Gate Catle, which was later called Coral Castle.
Ed built Coral Castle for 31 years (1920-1951). The official opening of the castle took place in 1923, but since then the object has grown and grown, finally resembling the dream of a crazy stonemason. For the construction of Coral Castle, Ed used 1,100 tons of coral. The largest block is 35 tons. Ed built everything with simple tools. The size and momentum of the building is shocking especially compared to the size of the creator – Ed was only 150 cm tall and weighed 50 kg.
It’s hard to believe that the craftsmanship of even the most talented stonemasonry family passed down for generations is all that enabled Ed to build this mysterious object. Until now, both scientists and practitioners of construction wonder how something like Coral Castle could come out from under the simple tools of a small man. No wonder that Cora Castle and Ed’s amazing skills have become fodder for many more and less crazy theories. Here are a few of them.
- The magical powers of the Freemasons. One theory holds that Ed had been a member of a Masonic lodge for years. The pamphlets that Ed wrote and dedicated to his “sweet sixteen- year-old” Agnes are said to contain secret coded Masonic instructions. On the premises, supporters of this theory reportedly identified many buildings and objects similar to the symbolism used by the Freemasons.
- Energy drawn from the stars. In the eastern wall of Coral Castle there is an entrance gate built of a 9-ton block. The block was mounted in this way. that it could be moved with one finger. The gate was to be a switch that, at a certain setting of celestial bodies, started the flow of cosmic energy. In 1986 the gate broke down and untilpiero in 2005 it began to work after replacing the metal shaft. However, it does not work as smoothly as it used to.
- Electromagnetic generator. Ed was passionate about magnetism. He was never seen at work, ordered trucks with stones to be left in front of the castle, in the morning they found them unloaded. He worked at night by the light of the lantern. As soon as he saw that someone was watching him, he stopped working. Among the proponents of this theory, there is a story about how several children managed to spy on Ed at work. Ed bent over the stones, sang strange songs to them, and the stones floated by themselves.
- Energetic points of the Earth. Representatives of the world of science were also involved in explaining the Coral Castle phenomenon. One of them is Professor Richard Leforks Clark in California, who studies antigravity and alternative energy.
According to Clark’s research, there are 20 places on earth distinguished by electromagnetic anomalies. Clark locates 10 such places near the Tropic of Capricorn, 10 near the Tropic of Cancer. In these places are erected such buildings as pyramids in Egypt, Guatemala, Mexico or Peru and other megalithic buildings. According to the energy map drawn up by Clark, Coral Castle is number 18. - A portal to another dimension of reality. Proponents of this theory explain the transfer of the location of Coral Castle made by Ed as a correction and tuning into a portal moving to another reality. Although not yet so named when Ed began building Coral Castle, one of the tips of the Bermuda Triangle is supposed to coincide with the location of Coral Castle.
And without these theories, Coral Castle is amazing. Stone furniture in the castle – tables, rocking chair, chairs, telescope marking the Polar Star, figures depicting planets bring to mind the playground of giants. Titanic work done by a little man. For the memory of a woman. Coral Castle is identified with many unusual phenomena, even plane crashes in the surrounding wetlands of the Everglades. Maybe these mysteries will be solved one day, and for now it is certain that Ed did not have a heart of stone. Sweet Agnes has always lived in it.