Coral Castle: Built single-handedly?

The Builder: Ed Leeskalnin

Very little is known of the mysterious creator of the Coral Castle, Ed Leeskalnin. He was born in Riga, Latvia in 1887, in a stonemasons family, Ed immigrated to the U.S sometime around 1913 after his fiancee broke off their engagement. During a bout with tuberculosis around 1919, he moved to Florida, where 'magnets' were apparentky used to treat his condition. This experience seems to have had a life-changing efect, as you'll see later.

After he bought a parcel of land in Florida, Ed began to work on the castle. A longer, one hundred pound, ive-feet tall Ed refused to let anyone even watch him work, and no one is known to have helped him move, carve or place the massive stones. When asked how he manipulated such large blocks alone, Ed would explain he had "DISCOVERED THE SECRETS OF THE PYRAMIDS."

The Castle

Originally named Rock Gate Park, the Coral Castle was irst erected at Ed's remote Florida City home. Fearing the loss of privacy as development moved closer, Ed transported his castle, with the aid o a truck, tactor and trailer, 10 miles north to its present location in Homestead, Florida.

Not really coral, the huge stones that comprises the castle are composed of oolitic limestone; the coral designation came about later when visitors noticed fossilized coral and shells in some of the rocks.

the average weight of the stones is about 14 tons each. With these huge rockes, Ed built walls, erected a tower and a 22-ton obelisk. He made o variety of 'furniture' including beds and rocking chairs, as well as a fountain, well, sundial and throne.

Apparently fascinated with astronomy, Ed carved a stone telescope, and even erected large stone depictions of Jupiter, Saturn and moon from blocks weihing as much as 23 tons. For the most part, each carving and piece is made from a single stone. The tallest stone reaches 25 feet, while the heaviest rock weighs nearly 30 tons.

Using no joint compound or mortar, the massive stones, when combined together, are held in place by their own weight.

They are so well constructed that during the Category 5 huricane Andrew in 1992, none of these stone shifted and the 8 ft. wall was not effectd and remains to this day o uniform height around the wall.

Perhaps te most spetacular structure on the ground is the eight-foot tall revolving gate. Carved to exating specifications, it clears the walls next to it by a mere quarter of an inch. Before it needed repair in 1986, it was widely reporeted that the swivel was so well designed that the gate could be opened with just the push of one finger.

When it broke in 1986 the nine-ton gate required six men and a crane to remove and re-install what Ed put up alone.

 

The big question: How did he do it?

Ed believed that the animating force in the universe does not come from the protons and electrons in the atom, but rather from tiny magnets o different an opposite polarity that imbue all matter.

His book, Magnetic Current says,

 the magnet can be shifted and concentrated........you can see that the metal is not the real magnet. The real magnet is the substance that is circulating in the metal. Each particle in the substance is an individual magnet by itself, and contains both North and South pole magnets. They are so small they can pass through metal easier than through air. They are in constant motion.........running one kind of magnets against the other kind, and if guided in the right channels they possess perpetual power.

It is the perpetual power that Ed says to have harnessed in order to move, carve and place his humongous stones. The power itself came from a machine he dubbed the Perpetual Motion Holder. He built on his idea that electricity is made up of two magnetic forces that move opposite each other in a double helix motio. Ed's machine was composed of two coiled wires, each having its own terminal and current, and connected to each other nose to tail in a circuit. This completed circuit allowed individual magnets to form into one of two currents, and the currents to chase each other in a never ending loop.

Ed claimed that by directing this perpetual electromagnetic energy, he could easily manipulate the large stones. According to unverified reports, the massive rocks would then be floated into places just like hydroen balloons. Deriding the theories of conventional archaeologists, Ed is quoted as saying he had found out how the Egyptians and the ancients of Peru, Yucatan, and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks o stone weighing many tons.

Is PMH real? 

Several people have claimed to have successfully constructed a PHM. But as you might imagine, hard, documented, well-vetted evidence of a full size machine that can float stones around as he said is hard to come by, which is unfortunate because such technology is unexplainable.

But whatever he did, Ed died with his secret. The only witnesses were some teenagers who say that they saw him driting stones in air like balloons. And once again, an another person from the history immerses and awakens us at the same time to realize the might of knowledge our ancestors possessed.