What do you think about this?
In the Mexican town of Cholula there is a hill with a pretty yellow church on top. People picnic on it. Tourists climb it. Almost none of them realize they are standing on the largest pyramid ever built by human hands.
By sheer volume, the Great Pyramid of Cholula is bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, a man made mountain that grew over roughly a thousand years as culture after culture built on top of the last. Then it was slowly swallowed by grass and soil until it looked like an ordinary hill. When the Spanish arrived in 1519 they saw a hill. The church that crowns the summit went up decades later, and nobody who raised it had any idea what was underneath. Only in the twentieth century did archaeologists start tunneling in and grasp the true scale of it.
Is it possible the biggest monument our species ever raised sat hidden in plain sight for centuries, mistaken for a hill?
Lost knowledge, a deliberate burial, or just the slow work of time? What do you think Cholula was really built 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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