What do you think about this?
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?
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What do you think about this? The Abenaki spoke of something in Lake Champlain long before Europeans arrived, and Port Henry still keeps a sign counting sightings. In 1977 Sandra Mansi photographed a long neck and a dark hump, and no hoax was ever found in it. Log, or a real animal?
What do you think about this? In 1579 Francis Drake beached the Golden Hind somewhere on the northern California coast and claimed the land for England. Nobody can say which beach. A brass plate found in 1936 was celebrated for decades, then proved a hoax. Point Reyes, or somewhere else?
What do you think about this? Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, one is engraved on copper instead of parchment, and it is a treasure map. It lists 64 hiding places holding tons of gold and silver. Not one has ever been found. Real temple gold, or an ancient legend set in metal?
What do you think about this? On August 15, 1977, an Ohio telescope caught a 72 second burst from Sagittarius, 30 times stronger than background, right on the hydrogen frequency. The astronomer circled it and wrote Wow. It never came back. Fluke, or one word of a conversation?
What do you think about this? The Shroud of Turin carries a full length image of a man that behaves like a photographic negative, which nobody noticed until it was first photographed in 1898. Carbon dating said medieval. Nobody can explain how the image formed. Artwork, or something else?
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