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In 1963, a man in the Cappadocia region of Turkey knocked down a wall in his basement during a renovation and found a passage. Behind it was a room. Behind that room, another. What he had stumbled into was Derinkuyu, an entire city carved straight down into soft volcanic rock, descending as much as eighteen levels and roughly eighty five meters underground.
It had stables, kitchens, wine presses, chapels, ventilation shafts, and massive round stone doors that could seal each level from the inside. Estimates say it could shelter close to twenty thousand people along with their livestock and food for months. The best guess puts the first digging with the Phrygians well over two thousand years ago, and Byzantine Christians later widened it and sheltered in it. Nobody is certain who broke the first ground, or exactly when, or what they were hiding from. Whole communities lived underground here and then, apparently, moved on.
Is it possible people carved a city for twenty thousand into solid rock and we have forgotten who they were or what drove them down there?
A refuge from invading armies, or an escape from something else entirely? What do you think Derinkuyu was really built to survive?
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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