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?
What do you think about this? In 1715 a hurricane sank eleven Spanish treasure ships off Florida. In 2015 divers pulled up $4.5 million in gold coins from just 15 feet of water. The Queen’s jewels have never been found. Gone forever, or waiting for the right storm?
What do you think about this? Today is the equinox, and at Chichén Itzá a serpent of light will crawl down a pyramid built with 365 steps. Clap at its base and the echo chirps like the sacred quetzal bird. Brilliant engineering, or knowledge from somewhere older?
What do you think about this? Scans of Gunung Padang in Indonesia show hidden chambers deep inside the hill, and one team dated its oldest layers to 25,000 years ago. The study was retracted in 2024. The chambers have never been opened. Natural hill, or the oldest pyramid on Earth?
What do you think about this? Edgar Cayce gave over 14,000 trance readings, all written down and still on file. He said proof of Atlantis would rise near Bimini in 1968. That year divers found a half mile road of giant stone blocks there. True seer, or lucky guess?
What do you think about this? Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky built a 500 foot tunnel just to move its dead out of sight of the living. It closed in 1961. Visitors still report a boy rolling a ball across empty floors. Restless spirits, or a dark building playing tricks on the mind?
What do you think about this? In 1891, a poor French priest named Bérenger Saunière began tearing up his church floor, then spent the next two decades funding lavish buildings on a stipend that should not have covered it. Real treasure, or a secret about how he ran his church?
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