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In 1986, a Japanese diver named Kihachiro Aratake was scouting a new site for hammerhead shark tours off the coast of Yonaguni Island, at the southern end of the Ryukyu chain. Eighty feet down, he swam over the edge of what looked like a cliff and stopped cold.
What he saw, when his eyes adjusted, was a series of massive flat terraces cut into the seafloor. Right angles. Stairs. A long straight wall. Channels that ran parallel for hundreds of feet. Carved features that, to him, looked like the face of a sphinx and the head of a turtle.
Geologists were called. Boston University professor Robert Schoch, the same researcher who controversially redated the Sphinx in Egypt, dove the site and concluded that while much of it is natural sandstone bedding, the geometry is too sharp in places to be entirely the work of waves. Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura at the University of the Ryukyus went further. After hundreds of dives, he argued that Yonaguni is the remains of a city that was on dry land roughly ten thousand years ago, before the seas rose at the end of the last Ice Age.
That date is the part that lands hardest. Ten thousand years ago is two and a half times older than the oldest pyramid we have in Egypt. Older than Sumer. Older than the first written language we know about.
If Kimura is right, somebody was cutting stone on the coast of Japan thousands of years before history begins.
Is it possible the timeline we were taught is not wrong by a few hundred years, but by a few thousand?
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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