What do you think about this?
In a green field in eastern Ireland sits a mound of earth and stone that is older than the Great Pyramid of Giza and older than Stonehenge. Newgrange was built around 3,200 BC, more than five thousand years ago, by a farming people with no metal tools and no written language. From the outside it looks like a grassy hill ringed with carved stones. Inside, a single narrow passage runs nineteen metres straight into the heart of the mound, ending in a stone chamber.
For most of the year that chamber sits in total darkness. But the builders left an opening above the entrance, a small stone slot now called the roof box. For a few mornings around the winter solstice, the shortest days of the year, the rising sun lines up perfectly with that slot. A thin blade of light slides down the entire length of the passage and creeps across the chamber floor, lighting the deepest, darkest room for about seventeen minutes before the world goes dark again.
This was no accident. Five thousand years ago, people we are told were primitive tracked the sun precisely enough to build a structure that catches one specific sunrise a year, and they aimed it dead on.
Is it possible these so called primitive builders understood the sky far better than we give them credit for?
A tomb, a temple, a calendar, or a doorway meant for one day a year? What do you think Newgrange was built to do?
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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