Coral Castle in Florida

[Furtherman]

Ever hear of this place? It's one of the great U.S. mysteries.

Edward Leedskalnin built a castle made out of coral in the early 1930's in Florida. He built it himself, working only after dark, and never allowed anyone to view him work. Leedskalnin built the castle and everything in it by himself over 26 years, using only the tools he made from scavenged junkyard parts. Most of the coral pieces weigh many tons.

Rumored to be built as a shrine for his lost love of a girl who declined to marry him, no modern day engineer has been able to figure out how he built it.

Check out this story from Wired News:
Coral Castle Visit (http://www.wired.com/news/roadtrip/0,2640,61421-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1)

Or the Coral Castle website: Coral Castle (http://www.coralcastle.com/home.asp)

It's a cool read.

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[Hoojibs]

Wow, that is truly impressive from the sun dial which was within 2 minutes and it's own genearator used to supply it's own energy.

The only thing I've ever done in homage to an unrequieted love is get drunk and feel sorry for myself.

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[A.J.]

I remember the episode of "In Search Of..." (hosted by Leonard Nimoy) that profiled this guy and the castle.

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[high fly]

Didn't he use, like, strange mystical powers to lift the giant blocks o' coral?

" and they ask me why I drink"

[TheMojoPin]

One of the major gun compnay owners here in America had a wife who was told after he died that all the ghosts of those killed by her husband's company's guns would haunt her. So to confuse the ghosts, she had a giant mansion made on which construction never ceased. The place just expanded until she died, with stairways going into nowhere, doors that opened up to a wall or the outside, oddle designed rooms...all like a giant Escher painting. Damned if I can't remember her name, but her house is a similar tourist attraction to Coral Guy's...

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[FMJeff]

you think that's cool? one time i laid this really big turd and lodged itself at the base of the toilet like a bridge and refused to go down...i had to cut it in half so it would flush...

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It made my heart sing.

[high fly]

I had one like that just last week.
Stuck up out of the water like a piling from a broken down pier.
I hung a rather festive pennant on mine...

" and they ask me why I drink"

[Furtherman]

One of the major gun compnay owners here in America had a wife who was told after he died that all the ghosts of those killed by her husband's company's guns would haunt her.


That was the Winchester Rifle heiress, Sarah Winchester. She created all those passageways and deadends to confuse the "ghosts".

Winchester Mystery Mansion (http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/)

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