Mystery of Coral Castle Solved?

A man named Wally Wallington in Flint, Michigan believes he has figured out how Ed Leedskalnin created Coral Castle.  Wally has over 35 years of construction experience and he doesn't believe that Ed had any magical powers or any special knowledge, but rather that he used simple methods based on engineering.  In fact, Wally has proven his theories to some degree by moving several stones weighing tons in his backyard and he is building his own stonehenge.

His site is:

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/

I found him through the following embedded video:





By Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)

Ed Leedskalnin and His Coral Castle

Ed Leedskalnin was a Latvian immigrant, born on August 10, 1887, who came to America after alledgedly being unengaged by his "Sweet 16" fiance.  He is famous for building a place called Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida.  Coral Castle was made by Ed who sculpted coral rock and moved it into place all by himself.  The rock weighed tons, but somehow this man who was only 5 feet tall and 100 pounds and had only a 4th grade education,  had figured out a way to move the rock.  Not only did he move the rock around at Homestead, but he had built his Coral Castle at a different location in Florida and then decided to move all of the rock and carvings to Homestead.  He was very secretive in how he did it.

I visited Coral Castle years back and it truely is a mystery.  Ed said he knew the secrets of magnetism and he wrote a book on it.  He also left clues to how he moved the rock in his Coral Castle.  Perhaps some day, someone will figure out how he did it and tell the world.

http://coralcastle.com/

By Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)