What do you think about this?
In the hills above the town of Visoko in Bosnia, there is a mountain shaped almost too perfectly. From a distance, its faces rise in flat, triangular slopes that meet at a point, and in 2005 a man named Semir Osmanagić looked at it and declared it was no mountain at all. He called it the Pyramid of the Sun, and claimed it was the largest human-made pyramid on Earth, older than the ones in Egypt by thousands of years.
The world’s archaeologists and geologists pushed back hard. They examined the hill and concluded it is a natural formation, a type of landform called a flatiron, shaped by geology and not by human hands. They warned that the digging was damaging a real, ancient settlement that sits on the same site.
And yet the story refuses to die. Osmanagić kept excavating, uncovered a network of tunnels beneath the valley, and turned Visoko into a destination that draws visitors from around the world who feel something there. Believers point to the strange angles, the flat stone surfaces, the sheer symmetry of the thing.
The truth may be far stranger than we have been told, not because a buried pyramid is hiding under that hill, but because of how badly people want one to be.
A natural mountain mistaken for a monument, or a real structure science is too cautious to admit? What do you think is under the hills of Visoko?
What do you think about this? In 1615 a Spanish pearl ship is said to have sailed into an inland sea that then dried up. In 1870 a Los Angeles paper reported its hull found in the desert near the Salton Sea. Every searcher since has lost it to the sand. Mirage, or a galleon in the dunes?
What do you think about this? On May 20, 1967, a prospector in Manitoba walked up to a landed craft near Falcon Lake. It blasted him with hot gas and left a grid of burns on his chest matching its vents. Three governments investigated. Canada put it on a coin. Hoax, or the real thing?
What do you think about this? Serpent Mound in Ohio is a 1,348 foot snake of earth, its head aimed at the summer solstice sunset, its body built on the rim of an ancient meteor crater. One dating puts it right after Halley’s Comet in 1066. Sacred art, or a message for the sky?
What do you think about this? Since the early 1990s about two percent of people in Taos, New Mexico, hear a low hum like a distant diesel that never shuts off. In 1993 Los Alamos and Sandia scientists came to find it. Their instruments found nothing. Trick of the ear, or a hidden signal?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a retired air traffic controller cast footprints in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp: three webbed toes, a foot long. He had reported a seven foot gray haired creature with yellow eyes standing over a dead boar in 1963. Hoax, or the Letiche?
What do you think about this? For nearly three years beginning April 2, 1968, a glowing figure of a woman appeared on the roof of a church in Cairo, seen by crowds of tens of thousands, Christians and Muslims together, and caught in press photographs. Mass illusion, or a visitation?
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