What do you think about this?
On the coast of Brittany in France stand more than three thousand stones, set upright by human hands and arranged in long straight rows that run for miles across the countryside. They are called the Carnac stones, and they were raised somewhere around six to seven thousand years ago, which makes them older than Stonehenge and older than the pyramids.
Think about that. Before writing, before the wheel reached Brittany, someone quarried, moved, and stood thousands of massive stones in careful parallel lines, and then left no explanation at all. Were they a giant calendar, a map of the stars, a landscape of the dead, a path for a ritual we cannot picture? Every theory has holes. Local legend even says they are a Roman legion frozen into stone by Saint Cornely.
Makes you wonder what would drive a people to spend generations lining up thousands of rocks with that kind of care.
A lost astronomy, a forgotten faith, or something we have no word for? What do you think the Carnac stones were 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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