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Astonishing Legends

The Coral Castle

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 β€’ 9.8K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Is it just a quirky rock sculpture garden, or a megalithic mystery that baffles engineers and scientists to this day? It seems to be both. How was a diminutive man in ill health able to accomplish such a monumental feat all by himself? Ed Leedskalnin, builder of the Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida would never say and he took the answer with him. We know of a few reasons why he made The Coral Castle his life's work, but as for how he made it, we may never know.

Tonight's Quote:

β€œI know how the Pyramids were built.” β€” Ed Leedskalnin, Builder of the Coral Castle

Show Links:

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Coral Castle's own website http://coralcastle.com/ Kristaps Andrejson's The Eastern Border podcast http://theeasternborder.lv/ Edward Leedskalnin and his Coral Castle in Florida from latvianhistory.com http://bit.ly/2a65Qyx Peter the Painter - Latvian gangster, revolutionary and purported comrade of Ed Leedskalnin http://bit.ly/2a8MTuP The 1905 Revolution in Latvia http://bit.ly/2alNXaZ The Incredible Mystery of Coral Castle by By Christopher Dunn From Atlantis Rising http://bit.ly/18uEvA3 Billy Idol's Sweet Sixteen http://bit.ly/18uEvA3 "Eds Coral Castle Quarry and Flywheel, Engineering Mystery Solved," by Scott Russell http://bit.ly/29OkvMt Episode of In Search Of - The Castle of Secrets http://bit.ly/29TmOhI Coral Castle: The Mystery of Ed Leedskalnin and his American Stonehenge https://amzn.com/098421321X David Carr's Take on The Castle at Graham Hancock's Site http://bit.ly/2a6kxlp Coral Castle Busted - Interesting, But Not Magic by Sterling D. Allan http://bit.ly/2alLj5l Mapping The World Grid by David Hatcher Childress http://bit.ly/2a17xKR The Bimini Road http://bit.ly/29N8iUM Earth's Grid Systems - Science and Pseudoscience http://bit.ly/2alNRQC Metaphysics and Grids http://bit.ly/2a0kG8e Vile Vortex http://bit.ly/2alNXaZ Cymatics http://bit.ly/2a6CJYx Coral Castle's 9-ton revolving gate in action http://bit.ly/29Fsqx3 Secret of the Sumerian Tablet, Part 1 http://bit.ly/29GVfW2 Lost Stone Cutting Technologies of Ancient Egypt - The Granite Box http://bit.ly/29Nb8tb Levitating Stones! http://bit.ly/29OvHZt Coral Castle Mystery 100% Solved with 1930's Film Footage! http://bit.ly/29GWHrJ Tom Waits - What's He Building? http://bit.ly/29OmPTC Pixies - Levitate Me http://bit.ly/29PxJVT Prof. Michio Kaku - "The Universe is a Symphony of Vibrating Strings" http://bit.ly/1GTWo4a

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Credits:

Episode 041 - "The Coral Castle" Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Edited by Sarah Vorhees, Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a,k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess 2016. All Rights Reserved.

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0:46.0

So I feel like we first said we were going to do this topic almost two years ago on maybe our third episode or something.

0:52.5

Well, it was a long way back, only 35 episodes late.

0:56.5

And then you made it the butt of a running joke. So as some of you may have heard in our previous altros.

1:01.5

So many topics so little time. Maybe we should try to do more shows.

1:05.5

I don't know if we can handle that and we're maxing the bandwidth as it is.

1:09.5

On that note, we're planning to start posting weekly for three weeks and then take one week off for administration, research, and to do exclusive appearances on Patreon.

1:19.0

If you've been paying attention, you might have noticed that we've already done this once.

1:22.5

Tonight's show is the third one in a row to come out on three consecutive Mondays.

1:27.0

The new schedule should allow us to provide you more shows, more often, and also rather than have a season where we're down for months, we'll be posting nearly year round.

1:37.5

There are no seasons really in podcasting, but some folks take them anyway and some shows are only 12 episodes.

1:43.5

You know what I'm talking about, cereal. To give you an idea of what this means for us, it should double our annual output.

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