Something we haven’t touched on yet is Ed’s obsession with who he refers to as his ‘Sweet Sixteen’—his long-lost love whom he claimed to have built the Coral Castle as an ode to. It’s for this reason that his castle is often referred to as Leedskalnin’s ‘Taj Mahal’. McClure and Heffron cover this aspect of Ed’s motivation for building the castle at length: The first sentence in Ed’s book, Magnetic Current, is one of the oddest and most confusing lines I’ve ever read: Contradicting the standard model of electromagnetism, but remarkably in line with the concept of ' magnetic moment' / 'electron spin theory', his thesis is based upon the theory that the metal itself is not the magnet and that the real magnets are circulating in the metal. These individual north and south pole magnets are particles smaller than atoms or photons and each particle in the substance was an individual magnet by itself. [13] This leaving behind of preconceived ideas is what I’ve spent the best part of a decade doing, to do the mystery and ingenuity of Edward Leedskalnin justice. I realised that if I were to be successful in my work, I had to decide that everything I had ever learned or been told about the Coral Castle was wrong. With a blank slate, on the basis of zero assumptions, and using the tools of observation, deductive reasoning and the instructions that Ed gives in his books, I set about my task. The Secret Schematic and the Perpetual Motion Holder

In the video game Fortnite, a location named Coral Castle exists. It is unknown if it is in reference to the real-life Coral Castle. In August 2020, the company that owns Coral Castle sued Epic Games for trademark infringement. [27] Megaliths, electromagnetism, astronomy, and cryptic scripts. Anyone care to guess where we’re going with this? Cutting to the chase The ancient temples of Egypt: simple monuments to the gods? Or complex puzzles that we are just beginning to understand? In the novel The Island of Eternal Love, by Cuban-American author Daína Chaviano, a whole chapter ("Very close to my heart") is dedicated to the history of Coral Castle and his builder Edward Leedskalnin. [28] Such is the nature of mysteries—the more we discover, the less we realise we know, and the less we realise we know, the humbler and more open we become.a b Knight, Gladys L. Pop Culture Places: An Encyclopedia of Places in American Popular Culture. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2014, p. 211-214. Coral Castle's own promotional material says Edward Leedskalnin was 26 years old when he was suddenly rejected by his 16-year-old fiancée Agnes Skuvst in Latvia, just one day before the wedding. Leaving for the United States, he came down with allegedly terminal tuberculosis, but spontaneously healed, stating that magnets had some effect on his disease. [ citation needed] Radford, Benjamin. "Mystery of the Coral Castle Explained". Live Science . Retrieved August 27, 2017. Leedskalnin was evasive when directly questioned about making Coral Castle, but he claimed to possess techniques once known by ancient builders—techniques like those used to construct the great Egyptian pyramids. He even teasingly referenced that the method was quite easy, once you knew the secret. It’s true that Irwin gives a detailed account of how he helped Leedskalnin haul the boulders and tools to the Coral Castle’s new home in Homestead, Florida in 1937, but Irwin wasn’t present during Ed’s construction of the castle – nor was anyone. It has been firmly established by multiple eyewitness statements that Ed built the castle entirely on his own, at night, so no-one could watch him. And those who knew Ed have claimed that he deliberately misled them, hid the secrets he possessed, and offered explanations that didn’t tell the whole story.

He wrote that a mother's most important task is to ensure that her daughter remains "chaste and faithful": [6] Edward Leedskalnin ( Latvian: Edvards Liedskalniņš) (January 12, 1887– December 7, 1951) was a Latvian immigrant to the United States and self-taught engineer who single-handedly built the Coral Castle in Florida, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [2] Leedskalnin was also known for developing theories of magnetism. Preview Billy Idol's Candid Memoir 'Dancing With Myself' ". Rolling Stone. September 25, 2014 . Retrieved July 6, 2017. This writing is lined up so that when you read it you look East, and all the description you will read about magnetic current, it will be just as good as your electricity.

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So, Radford’s suggestion that Leedskalnin lifted and set this 30-ton boulder alone using basic tools and ‘the principles of leverage’ is unverifiable. How could 5ft tall, 100-pound Ed have withstood a combined weight of over 82,000 lbs? And who among us could single handedly drive the wedges into the ground to the depths shown on the walls of the Coral Castle? Stollznow, Karen. "Coral Castle Fact and Folklore", Skeptical Inquirer January/February 2010, pp. 49–53 These are the natural tools with which Poole decrypts and translates the brilliance of Leedskalnin’s ideas. Everything we do should be for some good purpose but as everybody knows there is nothing good that can come to a girl from a fresh boy. When a girl is sixteen or seventeen years old, she is as good as she ever will be, but when a boy is sixteen years old, he is then fresher than in all his stages of development. He is then not big enough to work but he is too big to be kept in a nursery and then to allow such a fresh thing to soil a girl— it could not work on my girl. Now I will tell you about soiling. Anything that is done, if it is done with the right party it is all right, but when it is done with the wrong party, it is soiling, and concerning those fresh boys with the girls, it is wrong every time."