I love so many SPLENDORDU noble splintered. It's just splintered as well. It's a noble splintered at times fractious thing. And I don't know, you guys remember maybe your your days of heavy teenage love where you felt like the entire world was collapsing because things might not work out with someone you were in love with. Do you guys, do you guys ever have that moment? I don't recall. I plead the fifth Okay, I would say, yes, I know. And the most moving and important thing I could ever do for a young lady that I was in love with as a young man was write a song. Oh. It felt like I was creating something beautiful and amazing for them. But you know what, some other some other people have more grander designs than I. Yeah. Oh, man, Well, first off, we shouldn't. We shouldn't be quick to uh throw away your song? Man, I can't. I would love to hear it one day. I think we all would. Uh. But you're right, people do crazy things out of love to recover from love. Uh. This episode is about something called Quarrel Castle. A man named Edward Leeds Skalman spent almost three decades building this thing by himself out of huge blocks of stone, and even today people aren't sure how he did it. So let us hear the tale from UFOs two, Ghosts and government cover ups. History is riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to now. Hello, everyone, welcome to the show. My name is Matt and I'm Ben, and this is stuff they don't want you to know. Today we're gonna kind of recap look back at our episode on Edward leads Skalman's coral castle. Yeah, interesting thing. First question for most people would be what the heck is a coral castle. It's a good question because this thing is not actually a castle. No, no, not really. It's kind of, I don't know what I would call it a It's kind of an art exhibit or a compound. That's exactly what it is. It's an art exhibit and it's not coral, is it. No? No, it's made of a kind of limestone called lytic limestone, which is actually a sedimentary rock. Well, well, first of all, where is this thing? Oh right, yes, yes, this is, along with so many other crazy things located in Florida, Florida. Yeah, Florida also has an abnormally large population of cults. Really, we need to look into this, we do. We do now. When when we first started our show on Coral Castle, we did this as an audience request, right, yeah, that's correct. We we there were several people on YouTube claim writing for it, and most of our best episodes come from audience suggestions. And we were excited to do this one because it's both close to us in terms of space geographic space, and in terms of time. You know. Oh yeah, well, it's fascinating there there's there were so many questions and there still are so many questions revolving around how the heck this thing was made um and about the guy that made it. So yeah, yeah, and uh the okay, so Coral Castle itself, it's made of these huge rock sculptures. When we say huge, we mean they wait tons, they're nine ft tall, et cetera. But there's great skill in precision in the in the crafting of these sculptures. For instance, a door that washes tons and tons that once upon a time you could just turn with the slightest touch because it was so well balanced. That's pretty incredible. They're also all kinds of other uh, just very cool shapes that were made out of the stone. There's I know, there's a un dial there. There's also well they call it a Polaris telescope. Do you know much about this thing? I know it looks like a tower and it's got a hole in the center or not the center of the top. So yeah, yeah, the um the hole in the top actually is a Latvian star because the guy who created the obelist, our buddy, Edward lead Scaldan, was himself from Latvia. There's there's other cool stuff too, like the giant furniture, rocking chairs, um, a water well. An obelisk, of course, because what would a strange monument be without an obelisk. Always got to have one of those. Well again, we'll talk about it later. But but he had some Egyptian influence in his castle, right yes, And there was no mortar in this right man. It's just no, no, no, They're all just fit together almost perfectly. And and I guess let's okay, there's a reason why they're fit together so well, and that's because Edward had kind of a background. His family had a background in masonry, right yes, yes, although his formal education was fairly limited. Edward lead Skalman born in January twelfth, eighty seven had an extensive homeschooling regimen, likely by his grandfather, who was also a mason, so he was trained in the ways of stonemasonry. Oh wow, that's cool. So let's talk about what leads a person to go to Florida and build castle of coral or of of limestone. Well, it's a it's a good well, it's a sad story, but you want to hear it anyway. I do want to know, all right. So Ed is twenty eight years old, it's nineteen nineteen. The love of his life, ladies last name was scruff. I believe she um is sixteen. It's a feen. She's in her teen. He's twenty eight. She's sixteen, and she doesn't want to marry him, even though even though he asked her in everything, so well, hold on, did she say yes? Initially? Was there an engagement? There was kind of Uh, that was kind of an engagement. It was a spurning in the result, a spurned lover spurned so bad that he went across the Atlantic. Uh Landed I believe in Canada and trapes about the East coast um until uh, tuberculosis concerns um or should we say tubercular concerns. I like it. Yeah, it sounds little dr sucy. Well, we'll keep it. The tuberculosis drove him to Florida and hopes that the warmer climate would help alleviate some of his pain. And once he got in Florida, he did something very interesting. He started kind of this monument to his um lost love. So okay, so the coral castle is it was made for her, It was made for his boss love. That's interesting. After after he's been spurned, he went ahead and decided, I going to make this monument out of Do you think he did it out of spite? Like I guess what? Guess what? I made this for you? But you know whatever, I made this for you, but you know whatever. I hope that's the inscript shell on the stones. Well it's it's strange because he spends the next like thirty years or so building these structures and he dies in nine. As far as we know, I'm kidding him. We were pretty sure, um, but something interesting would happen. He would charge people to check out the check out the structure. Pretty reasonable price like a dime or something. And then then when they asked him how I would build it, he would say, I've learned the secrets of weight and leverage. I've learned the secrets of the pyramids, the builders of the pyramids. Yeah. Well, okay, So in our in the video we talked about this a little bit about what those secrets could possibly be. There are some people who think they're some to be magical or hidden technologies that he found. Uh. There are even other people that think there is some kind of energy that he was able to harness, like electromagnetism or just magnetism, or even oh what weren't there harmonies? Some people are saying to use some kind of specific harmonies that allowed levitation to occur, right, Yeah, that, um, a certain frequency would be able to negate in part the effects of gravity, which is interesting, or the even at Edward lie Scaldin himself had psychic powers. Because the reason that we hear a lot of this stuff come out is first, it's really cool, it's you know, it's sci fi and it's interesting. But second, he was fairly secretive about his process working with this stuff. Um. And third, people who own Coral Castle and we'll get to the cool part where you can visit Coral Castle a day. Have a definite financial interest in sort of, I see up the story, so the more mystery they can purport to have. Well, and if he was selling tickets to it or you know, his charging small amounts, he also had probably a high stake in making it mysterious and mystical. Oh and he was weird too. Did you ever read those pamphlets that he wrote. You can find some of them online. I read some about morality and how to court Uh a woman? Well, yeah, that's I think that's a book in every home. Is the name of that one? I'm I don't know. It takes all kinds Ben, and I was. I was interested. At least he wrote something down. It's better than I've done. Well. He is also, um, just cartoonishly politically incorrect in this day and age. Um, he would say this. He would say stuff, for instance like, uh, well, we shouldn't let people who are poor or don't have jobs vote. If you let the weak vote, then that's what's wrong with the country, which I don't think would fly in most debates today. However, Um, you know there might be some people who privately believe that. But he also wrote some strange theories about magnetism, and this is one of the reasons why people thought that he had uh some other unknown power or technology. However, it's more probable that he he learned how to use kind of the basic mechanisms of physics. Some of the basic tools have like pulleys, levers, Oh, simple machines, simple machines exactly. Yeah, that's and you know, that's kind of the best, the best theory that we have for how the Egyptians did it. Just manpower and simple machines. Yeah, and ingenuity. I think in our episode we talk about some um modern hobbyists who have figured out ways to move gigantic blocks all by themselves, like the guy building the replica of Stonehenge. Fantastic and you can see Edward leet Skalman's tools on display, I believe at Coral Castle today. There's also an interesting guy aimed Orville Irwin, a friend of Lead Scaldon, and he wrote a book with a just terrible title. I'm gonna lay that on you guys right now. I think the title is terrible. Uh, are you ready? Mr Kant is Dead? The story of the Coral Castle. Mr Kent, I assume that that refers to something in the book. Maybe I'll like the title more after I read the book, which I will read. But um Orville Orville claims uh that lead Scalton's methods are not as mysterious as some would have us believe. Right like he uh, he points out that exactly what you said, these principles, weight and leverage, that Edward lead Scaldan did do the work on his own, which is amazing already, but that he did it through um ingenuity, through knowing how to um arrange these stones. If anything, one of his most extraordinary power would have been that he was very very good at figuring out the center of gravity of his gigantic structures and at keeping a secret. And it keeping a secret that's a very good, good superpower. Um. But we we so we hate to bust the bubble for some people. But everything that that we found about Edward leed Skaldan does show us he's an eccentric individual. It does show us that he really did build Coral Castle. Oh. One of the things we I don't think we covered in the video, sorry, just off the top of my head, that was that he bought a single acre of land for some ridiculously low price in Florida originally, and he started to build his coral castle. Then for some reason he had to move it. I think there was suba was coming in, yeah, and he decided to move it. And he got a friend to help him move all of these giant blocks, just the truck and the driver. Yeah. Well, and and he didn't even have a truck at the time. I don't think. I think he had a chassis of a truck or at least a small He had parts of a truck that could move, but it couldn't function. So we had to get another friend too, I guess attached to his truck and then move okay, that way, but he moved the entire thing and he got I think it's ten acres of land and it only takes up about three acres on the ten acre plot, but right, And he sold some of that land, and that's where he got a lot of the money. They say to live for a while there by selling some land. And as far as we know, he was never reunited with his lost Latvian love. I doubt she's ever even seen it. You know, it's weird since she is ten years was ten years younger than him. It would be cool if she if she did see it. You know, I'd like to hear that story. If anybody, If if you know of this occurring, please let us know, send us an email or something. Yes, we are Conspiracy Discovery dot com. We'll go ahead and drop that in because sometimes people might miss it if we say it at the end, but we'll say it again if you're just like hearing it. Um, let's end on this note, Matt. People can visit Coral Castle. Yes, it's still there. It's still there, you guys, and most of the stuff still works. There was one one gate doesn't work as well as it did because they had to fix it. Um. But here's how you get there. You uh go toward Homestead, Florida in Miami Dade County. Um. It's at the intersection of South Dixie Highway and Southwest One Avenue. There it is, And you can even type it into Google Maps now and find Coral Castle, which is kind of cool. Oh yeah, I wonder if you can just go to a street view. I haven't checked that. Wouldn't that be cool either? Look around in the castle. Coral Castle. Oh no, man, they probably have blurted out in some way to you know, make sure people will still pay money to get in and look at everything. Yeah, that might still be something they don't want you to know. Well every time. UM right, So we're going to head out. We hope that you enjoyed our episode on Corald Castle. You can find us on Facebook. We're all over Twitter. We're conspiracy stuff on both of those avenues. Uh. And that's the end of this classic episode. If you have any thoughts or questions about this episode, you can get into contact with us in a number of different ways. One of the best is to give us a call. Our number is one eight three three std w y t K. If you don't want to do that, you can send us a good old fashioned email. We are conspiracy at i heart radio dot com. Stuff they don't want you to know is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

I love so many SPLENDORDU noble splintered. It's just splintered as well. It's a noble splintered at times fractious thing. And I don't know, you guys remember maybe your your days of heavy teenage love where you felt like the entire world was collapsing because things might not work out with someone you were in love with. Do you guys, do you guys ever have that moment? I don't recall. I plead the fifth Okay, I would say, yes, I know. And the most moving and important thing I could ever do for a young lady that I was in love with as a young man was write a song. Oh. It felt like I was creating something beautiful and amazing for them. But you know what, some other some other people have more grander designs than I. Yeah. Oh, man, Well, first off, we shouldn't. We shouldn't be quick to uh throw away your song? Man, I can't. I would love to hear it one day. I think we all would. Uh. But you're right, people do crazy things out of love to recover from love. Uh. This episode is about something called Quarrel Castle. A man named Edward Leeds Skalman spent almost three decades building this thing by himself out of huge blocks of stone, and even today people aren't sure how he did it. So let us hear the tale from UFOs two, Ghosts and government cover ups. History is riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to now. Hello, everyone, welcome to the show. My name is Matt and I'm Ben, and this is stuff they don't want you to know. Today we're gonna kind of recap look back at our episode on Edward leads Skalman's coral castle. Yeah, interesting thing. First question for most people would be what the heck is a coral castle. It's a good question because this thing is not actually a castle. No, no, not really. It's kind of, I don't know what I would call it a It's kind of an art exhibit or a compound. That's exactly what it is. It's an art exhibit and it's not coral, is it. No? No, it's made of a kind of limestone called lytic limestone, which is actually a sedimentary rock. Well, well, first of all, where is this thing? Oh right, yes, yes, this is, along with so many other crazy things located in Florida, Florida. Yeah, Florida also has an abnormally large population of cults. Really, we need to look into this, we do. We do now. When when we first started our show on Coral Castle, we did this as an audience request, right, yeah, that's correct. We we there were several people on YouTube claim writing for it, and most of our best episodes come from audience suggestions. And we were excited to do this one because it's both close to us in terms of space geographic space, and in terms of time. You know. Oh yeah, well, it's fascinating there there's there were so many questions and there still are so many questions revolving around how the heck this thing was made um and about the guy that made it. So yeah, yeah, and uh the okay, so Coral Castle itself, it's made of these huge rock sculptures. When we say huge, we mean they wait tons, they're nine ft tall, et cetera. But there's great skill in precision in the in the crafting of these sculptures. For instance, a door that washes tons and tons that once upon a time you could just turn with the slightest touch because it was so well balanced. That's pretty incredible. They're also all kinds of other uh, just very cool shapes that were made out of the stone. There's I know, there's a un dial there. There's also well they call it a Polaris telescope. Do you know much about this thing? I know it looks like a tower and it's got a hole in the center or not the center of the top. So yeah, yeah, the um the hole in the top actually is a Latvian star because the guy who created the obelist, our buddy, Edward lead Scaldan, was himself from Latvia. There's there's other cool stuff too, like the giant furniture, rocking chairs, um, a water well. An obelisk, of course, because what would a strange monument be without an obelisk. Always got to have one of those. Well again, we'll talk about it later. But but he had some Egyptian influence in his castle, right yes, And there was no mortar in this right man. It's just no, no, no, They're all just fit together almost perfectly. And and I guess let's okay, there's a reason why they're fit together so well, and that's because Edward had kind of a background. His family had a background in masonry, right yes, yes, although his formal education was fairly limited. Edward lead Skalman born in January twelfth, eighty seven had an extensive homeschooling regimen, likely by his grandfather, who was also a mason, so he was trained in the ways of stonemasonry. Oh wow, that's cool. So let's talk about what leads a person to go to Florida and build castle of coral or of of limestone. Well, it's a it's a good well, it's a sad story, but you want to hear it anyway. I do want to know, all right. So Ed is twenty eight years old, it's nineteen nineteen. The love of his life, ladies last name was scruff. I believe she um is sixteen. It's a feen. She's in her teen. He's twenty eight. She's sixteen, and she doesn't want to marry him, even though even though he asked her in everything, so well, hold on, did she say yes? Initially? Was there an engagement? There was kind of Uh, that was kind of an engagement. It was a spurning in the result, a spurned lover spurned so bad that he went across the Atlantic. Uh Landed I believe in Canada and trapes about the East coast um until uh, tuberculosis concerns um or should we say tubercular concerns. I like it. Yeah, it sounds little dr sucy. Well, we'll keep it. The tuberculosis drove him to Florida and hopes that the warmer climate would help alleviate some of his pain. And once he got in Florida, he did something very interesting. He started kind of this monument to his um lost love. So okay, so the coral castle is it was made for her, It was made for his boss love. That's interesting. After after he's been spurned, he went ahead and decided, I going to make this monument out of Do you think he did it out of spite? Like I guess what? Guess what? I made this for you? But you know whatever, I made this for you, but you know whatever. I hope that's the inscript shell on the stones. Well it's it's strange because he spends the next like thirty years or so building these structures and he dies in nine. As far as we know, I'm kidding him. We were pretty sure, um, but something interesting would happen. He would charge people to check out the check out the structure. Pretty reasonable price like a dime or something. And then then when they asked him how I would build it, he would say, I've learned the secrets of weight and leverage. I've learned the secrets of the pyramids, the builders of the pyramids. Yeah. Well, okay, So in our in the video we talked about this a little bit about what those secrets could possibly be. There are some people who think they're some to be magical or hidden technologies that he found. Uh. There are even other people that think there is some kind of energy that he was able to harness, like electromagnetism or just magnetism, or even oh what weren't there harmonies? Some people are saying to use some kind of specific harmonies that allowed levitation to occur, right, Yeah, that, um, a certain frequency would be able to negate in part the effects of gravity, which is interesting, or the even at Edward lie Scaldin himself had psychic powers. Because the reason that we hear a lot of this stuff come out is first, it's really cool, it's you know, it's sci fi and it's interesting. But second, he was fairly secretive about his process working with this stuff. Um. And third, people who own Coral Castle and we'll get to the cool part where you can visit Coral Castle a day. Have a definite financial interest in sort of, I see up the story, so the more mystery they can purport to have. Well, and if he was selling tickets to it or you know, his charging small amounts, he also had probably a high stake in making it mysterious and mystical. Oh and he was weird too. Did you ever read those pamphlets that he wrote. You can find some of them online. I read some about morality and how to court Uh a woman? Well, yeah, that's I think that's a book in every home. Is the name of that one? I'm I don't know. It takes all kinds Ben, and I was. I was interested. At least he wrote something down. It's better than I've done. Well. He is also, um, just cartoonishly politically incorrect in this day and age. Um, he would say this. He would say stuff, for instance like, uh, well, we shouldn't let people who are poor or don't have jobs vote. If you let the weak vote, then that's what's wrong with the country, which I don't think would fly in most debates today. However, Um, you know there might be some people who privately believe that. But he also wrote some strange theories about magnetism, and this is one of the reasons why people thought that he had uh some other unknown power or technology. However, it's more probable that he he learned how to use kind of the basic mechanisms of physics. Some of the basic tools have like pulleys, levers, Oh, simple machines, simple machines exactly. Yeah, that's and you know, that's kind of the best, the best theory that we have for how the Egyptians did it. Just manpower and simple machines. Yeah, and ingenuity. I think in our episode we talk about some um modern hobbyists who have figured out ways to move gigantic blocks all by themselves, like the guy building the replica of Stonehenge. Fantastic and you can see Edward leet Skalman's tools on display, I believe at Coral Castle today. There's also an interesting guy aimed Orville Irwin, a friend of Lead Scaldon, and he wrote a book with a just terrible title. I'm gonna lay that on you guys right now. I think the title is terrible. Uh, are you ready? Mr Kant is Dead? The story of the Coral Castle. Mr Kent, I assume that that refers to something in the book. Maybe I'll like the title more after I read the book, which I will read. But um Orville Orville claims uh that lead Scalton's methods are not as mysterious as some would have us believe. Right like he uh, he points out that exactly what you said, these principles, weight and leverage, that Edward lead Scaldan did do the work on his own, which is amazing already, but that he did it through um ingenuity, through knowing how to um arrange these stones. If anything, one of his most extraordinary power would have been that he was very very good at figuring out the center of gravity of his gigantic structures and at keeping a secret. And it keeping a secret that's a very good, good superpower. Um. But we we so we hate to bust the bubble for some people. But everything that that we found about Edward leed Skaldan does show us he's an eccentric individual. It does show us that he really did build Coral Castle. Oh. One of the things we I don't think we covered in the video, sorry, just off the top of my head, that was that he bought a single acre of land for some ridiculously low price in Florida originally, and he started to build his coral castle. Then for some reason he had to move it. I think there was suba was coming in, yeah, and he decided to move it. And he got a friend to help him move all of these giant blocks, just the truck and the driver. Yeah. Well, and and he didn't even have a truck at the time. I don't think. I think he had a chassis of a truck or at least a small He had parts of a truck that could move, but it couldn't function. So we had to get another friend too, I guess attached to his truck and then move okay, that way, but he moved the entire thing and he got I think it's ten acres of land and it only takes up about three acres on the ten acre plot, but right, And he sold some of that land, and that's where he got a lot of the money. They say to live for a while there by selling some land. And as far as we know, he was never reunited with his lost Latvian love. I doubt she's ever even seen it. You know, it's weird since she is ten years was ten years younger than him. It would be cool if she if she did see it. You know, I'd like to hear that story. If anybody, If if you know of this occurring, please let us know, send us an email or something. Yes, we are Conspiracy Discovery dot com. We'll go ahead and drop that in because sometimes people might miss it if we say it at the end, but we'll say it again if you're just like hearing it. Um, let's end on this note, Matt. People can visit Coral Castle. Yes, it's still there. It's still there, you guys, and most of the stuff still works. There was one one gate doesn't work as well as it did because they had to fix it. Um. But here's how you get there. You uh go toward Homestead, Florida in Miami Dade County. Um. It's at the intersection of South Dixie Highway and Southwest One Avenue. There it is, And you can even type it into Google Maps now and find Coral Castle, which is kind of cool. Oh yeah, I wonder if you can just go to a street view. I haven't checked that. Wouldn't that be cool either? Look around in the castle. Coral Castle. Oh no, man, they probably have blurted out in some way to you know, make sure people will still pay money to get in and look at everything. Yeah, that might still be something they don't want you to know. Well every time. UM right, So we're going to head out. We hope that you enjoyed our episode on Corald Castle. You can find us on Facebook. We're all over Twitter. We're conspiracy stuff on both of those avenues. Uh. And that's the end of this classic episode. If you have any thoughts or questions about this episode, you can get into contact with us in a number of different ways. One of the best is to give us a call. Our number is one eight three three std w y t K. If you don't want to do that, you can send us a good old fashioned email. We are conspiracy at i heart radio dot com. Stuff they don't want you to know is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.