What do you think about this?
Five thousand years ago, before the wheel reached Britain, before iron tools, before written language in that part of the world, someone dragged stones weighing as much as twenty five tons across the English countryside and stood them on end in a perfect circle. The smaller bluestones came from quarries in Wales, roughly one hundred and fifty miles away. Nobody has ever fully explained how.
Then there is the part that stops you cold. Stand at the center of Stonehenge on the morning of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and the sun rises directly over the Heel Stone, the single great marker set outside the ring. The whole monument is aimed at that one sunrise like the sight on a rifle. Six months later, on the winter solstice, the alignment works in reverse at sunset.
This was not luck. A people we think of as primitive tracked the movement of the sun across an entire year with enough precision to build a permanent machine that catches it. And they did it with antler picks and rope.
Makes you wonder what else they understood that we have decided to forget.
We are days away from another solstice now. Was Stonehenge a temple, a calendar, a burial site, or something we still do not have a word for?
What do you think they built it for?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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