After being jilted a day before his wedding and narrowly surviving tuberculosis, Latvian immigrant Edward Leedskalnin spent almost 30 years building Coral Castle out of huge blocks of stone. But how did he make it, and why wouldn't he allow anyone to watch him at work? Join Ben and Matt as they explore the mystery of Coral Castle in today's classic episode.
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maybe you're your days of Hetty teenage love where you felt like
Entire world was collapsing, as things might not work out with
someone you were in love with together you guys around that moment.
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moving an important thing I could ever do for
young lady that I was in love with, as a young man was right, a song. Oh, it felt like I was creating
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Things out of love to recover from love, this episode is about something called quarrel castle. A man named Edward led scowled then spend almost three decades building this thing
by himself out of huge blocks of stone, and even today people are sure how he did it to. Let us hear the tail,
from your phone to ghosts and government cover. Ups. History is riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or learn the stuff. They don't want you to know a low. Everyone welcomes the show by name is met and I've been in MRS stuff. They don't want you to know today we're gonna kind of recap. Look back at our episode on Edward led skeletons, coral tat, yet interesting thing
First question for most people would be what the heck is. A quarrel castle is a good question, because this thing is not actually castle. No, no, not really. I can't. I don't know what I would call it. A scam and art exhibit a compound
that's exactly what is an art exhibit in its? Not quarrel? Is it no? No, it's made of a kind of limestone called Lyric limestone, which is actually a sediment. Terry Rock will first of all, whereas this thing out right. Yes, yes, this
along with so many other crazy things located in Florida. Ah Florida yeah forward.
Sazen, abnormally large population of cults, really trust
we need to look into this. We do we do now when we,
We first started our show on coral castle. We did this,
as an audience request right. Yeah, that's correct. We read there were several people on Youtube, clamouring for it
and most of our best episodes come from audience suggestions. We were excited to do this one because its both close to us
in terms of space, geographic space and in terms of time you know oh yeah, fullest, fascinating there
so there were so many questions and there still are so many questions revolving around how the heck this things made in about the guy that made it himself yeah
and the okay, so coral castle itself, it's made of these huge wrought
sculptures when we say huge, we mean they wait times their nine feet, tall, etc. But there is great skill,
precision in the in the crafting of these sculptures, offering since a door the ways tons and tons that once upon a time, you could just turn with the slightest touch because it was so well
Well, that's putting verbal day there also all kinds of other, just very cool
there were made under the stone, there's, no there's a sun dial there there's also or they call it. A Polaris telescope
much about this thing, I know it looks like a tower and it's got a hole in the centre or not the centre. The top
yeah the the hole in the top actually is a
the UN's star, because the guy who created the ATLAS, our body Edward, leads scowling,
was himself from Latvia. There there's other course of two like the giant furniture
I can chairs
a water- well, an abolition of course, is what would
strange monument be without an awful at source.
I have one of those. We will again
we'll talk about it later about that, but he had some egyptian influence in his castle right.
Yes and there was no mortar and this right man, it's just so not on fit together almost perfectly and in. I guess
there's a reason why their fit together so well- and that's because
Edward, had kind of a background. His family had a background in masonry right. Yes, yes, although
His formal education was fairly limited, Edward League scowling,
Morning, Janeway Twelfth eighteen, eighty, seven,
in extensive homes, schooling, regimen likely by his grey.
And father who was also a mason, so you
trained in new ways of stone masonry out. It's cool too upset. Let's talk about what leads a person to go to Florida and build the castle of coral or of of limestone,
it's it's a good words, a sad story. You wanna hear it anyway. I do owner art, so Ed.
Twenty. Eight years old, nineteen nineteen below
of his life. Ladys lasting was scruff. I believe she is sixteen eighteen,
thirteen, twenty eight- she sits there
and she doesn't want to marry him even though, even though he asked her in everything
hold them. Did she say? Yes, initially? Was there an engagement? There was
Indeed, those kind of an engagement there was a spurning. Oh ok, Osbourne.
Lover spurned so bad that he went across the EU
land, take landed, I believe in Canada and shrieked about the east coast until tuberculosis concerns are, shall we say, tuberculata concerns how I, like it
several dyke associate? Will keep it to work?
loses drove him to Florida and hopes
warmer climate would help alleviate some of his pain. The golf club with the top step club in Atlanta in the ninety nine is a twentieth century, balk at all for the rich and famous, with patrons light. Dennis Rodman Michael Jordan, Madame
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three under fifty dollar bottles of Don Perry on private rooms and the sexiest, entertainment and the south.
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something very interesting. He started kind of this monument to hear
lost love? So ok, so the
world Castle is if it was made for her, it was made for his lost love. That's interesting.
Attitude after he's been spurned, he went ahead and decided. I'm gonna make this monument out of you. Think you do that, despite like yes, why that's what I mean
this afternoon about you know whatever I made this,
you, but you know whatever her, that the inscription on the stones. Well, it's it's strange because you spend the next thirty years or so building these.
Ruptures an he dies in nineteen fifty one. As far as we
Oh no, I'm letting him were pretty show, but something
interesting would happen. I he would charge people to check out the the check out, the structured, pretty reasonable price like a dime or some
and then, when they asked him how I would build it, she would say I've learned the secrets of weight and leverage. I've learned the secrets of the pyramids, while the builders of the peer
yeah, ok, so inner in the video. We talk about this a little bit about what those secrets could possibly be. There are some people who think there
maybe magical or hidden technologies that he found
they're, even other people. I think there is some kind of energy that he was able to harness LUCA Electromagnetism.
Nor just magnetism
or even oh, well, their harmonies of
Some people are saying they use and has harm,
these that allowed limitation to occur right, yeah, that a certain frequency would be able to negate in part the the effects of gravel.
Which is interesting there or the even at Edward, leads common himself had psychic powers, because the food, the reason
We hear a lot of stuff come out is first, it's really cool in Sydney, road safety and it's interesting, but second
was fairly secretive about his process. Working with this stuff and third people who
coral castle and we'll get to the cool part. Where you can visit quarrel castle, they have a definite financial interest in sort of space in at the store
so the more mystery they can report to have borne. If he was selling tickets to it or you know, hurting small amounts. He also had probably high stake in making it mysterious and mystical
Oh and he was weird to dodge every those pamphlets that he wrote you can find some other. My ma, I read some about morality and how to court a woman,
well yeah. I think that's a book in every home
the name of that when I dont know aid
all kinds ban, and I was I was interested at least he wrote something down spare than I've done well. He is also
I'm just cartoonish Lee politically incorrect in this day and age. He would say this if you would say: stop, for instance, like her
Well, we shouldn't let people who are poor, don't have jobs, vote you let the weak vote, then that's what's wrong with the country which I dont think would fly and most debates today, however, near there might be some people,
I really believe that, but he also wrote some strange theories about magnetism, and this is one of the reasons why people thought that he had said.
Other unknown power or technology, however, is more probable that
He learned how to use Canada basic mechanisms of physics, some of the basic tools like police lever
is our simple machine, simple machines, exactly yeah, that's point in our n, you know that's kind of the best. The best theory
we have for how the Egyptians did it just manpower and simple machine?
yeah ingenuity. I think in our episode we talk about some modern hobbyists too,
I figured out ways to move gigantic blocks.
By themselves, like the guy building, a replica of stone in Africa,
you can see. Edward leads coalmines tools.
Fine display, I believe, a quarrel castled stay. There is also an interesting
I named Orville Erwin a friend of lead scowling and he wrote a book with a
terrible title laid out on you guys right now. I think the title was terrible. Are you ready? Dear mister cat is dead, the story of the coral castle? Mister
Can't. I assume that that refers to something in the book. May
like the title more after read the book, which I will read by all or vote,
claims that leads gardens
methods are not as mysterious as some would have us believe. Right like here. He points out that exactly what you said, these principles of weight and leverage that Edward
lead scalding. Did you work on his own, which is a mazes all ready by that he did it through stingy newly through knowing how to
arrange these stones, if anything, one of
most extraordinary powers would have been that he was very, very good at figuring out the centre of gravity, oh yeah, gigantic structure and keeping a secret
and keep it a secret. That's very good! Go over power, but,
We so we hate a bus, the bubble for some people, but everything that we found about Edward led scalding
does show as these an eccentric individual. It does show that he really did build coral castle on one of the things we know
We covered in the video surgeon, somehow my head there was that he bought a say,
no acres of land for some ridiculously low price in Florida
Regional you any started to build his coral castle, then, for some reason,
had to move it. I think there is
the Burma with Romania and
cited remove it and he got a friend to help him move. All of these giant blocks asked a truck driver,
yeah or in any didn't, even have a truck at the time. I don't think I think he has chassis of a truck, or at least a small. He had parts of a truck
it could move, but it couldn't function. So we had to get another friend too. I guess attached to his truck and then move
nobody move the entire thing any got. I think it's ten acres.
Yeah. It only takes up about three acres on the ten acre plot, but right any
some of that land and that's where he got a lot of the money they say: Matthew live for a there by selling from land
and as far as we know, he was never reunited with his loss. Latvian love, I doubt she's ever even seen it. You know it's weird
since she is tenures was ten years
we're than him it would be cool if she, if she did see it now, I'd like to hear that
if anybody, if, if you know of this
please let us know citizen, email or something. Yes, we are conspiracy, discovery that car
we'll, go and drop that in sometimes you boy
as we said at the end, but will say it again if you just like hearing it lets in on this note, met people can visit quarrel castle. Yes, it's still. There
Still there you guys and most of the stuff still works. There was one one gate
doesn't work as well as did because they had to fix it, but here's I get there, you go toward homestead
Florida in Miami Dade County, it's at the intersection,
South Dixie Highway and Southwest one fifty seventh avenant there. It is,
and you can even taken into Google MAPS now and find coral castle, which is gonna, go! Oh yeah! I wonder if you just
the street view having checked that whenever we call that either look around in the gas forecastle, oh no man, they they probably of blurted,
in some way to make sure people still pay money to get in and look at everything yeah. That might still be some
they don't want you to know.
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