Coral Castle

Coral castle Miami– In Homestead, Florida, not very far from Miami and South Dixie Highway, situated a famous structure known as the Coral Castle. Though it is not really a castle nor made up of corals. It is nevertheless an excellent attainment. More than 1,000 tons of oolite limestone extracted and formed into different shapes including tables, slab walls, chairs, water fountain, a crescent moon and a sundial.

The coral castle originally called as Rock Gate Park and many claimed that the castle was scientifically unexplainable. According to the castle’s official website, it has puzzled engineers, scientists and scholars since its formation in 1923. The castle appeared several times in TV shows, magazines and books, as well. Furthermore, Rock musician Billy Idol wrote a song about the attraction called ‘sweet-sixteen.’

Coral castle door

For several decades, the coral castle door was perfectly balanced, despite how much it weighed, would easily open with the push of a finger or a strong wind. The mystery behind how it worked remained a mystery, until 1986, when it stopped swinging. When they eliminated the gate, it was said that it span on a metal shaft and lay on a truck carriage.

The Edward Leedskalnin Coral Castle

How was the coral castle built?

Many had this question when they saw the castle- how was a coral castle built. According to the legends, Edward’s 16 years old sweetheart left him right before their wedding day. While he was leaving for America, he found out about his terminal tuberculosis, however, healed quickly. He said that the magnets helped him to deal with the disease.

Edward alone built the whole castle, which took him 28 years and refused to be seen by anyone while he’s working. However, few teenagers reported to have seen his work, they said that he made the corals move, like a hydrogen balloon. Edward only talked about using a perpetual motion holder as an instrument.

Coral castle Florida- Leedskalnin originally named the place as ‘Ed’s Place,’ in Florida around 1923. He bought the land from Ruben Moser, whose wife helped him when he was going through terminal tuberculosis. The coral castle remained in Florida till 1936 when Edward decided to relocate the castle. The final location of the castle is in Miami, Florida which he chose to protect his privacy. It took him 3 years to move the component structures from Florida to Miami.

Coral Castle Homestead

Edward named his brand new place-Rock Gate after he built the coral castle door. He continued working on his castle until his last breath in 1951. When the castle was in Florida, leedskalnin asked 10 cents as a ticket price from the visitors, who came to see the castle. However, after relocating to Homestead, Miami, he started charging 25cents as a donation. Though he let the visitors who didn’t have money, enter the castle for free. When people asked him how he made the castle, what was the reason behind the coral castle mystery, he never answered.

When people asked him, why he built the castle, he would respond in an indefinite way- it was for his sweet sixteen. After leedskalnin’s death at the age of 64, the castle became the possession of his nephew who was from Michigan. Though, he sold the property to an Illinois family as he was in a poor health. However, the obituary stated that the new owner (Levin) of the castle bought the property from Florida in 1952 and was not aware of the fact there was a castle in the land.

Levin later sold the castle to Coral Castle Inc. in January 1981. The National Register of Historic Places recognized the work of Edward Leedskalinn and enlisted coral castle under the name of rock gate. However, they altered the name from rock gate to Coral Castle in 2011.

Coral castle museum

The coral castle museum is open every day (9 am- 6 pm Sunday to Thursday, 9am-7pm Friday and Saturday.) They welcome the tourists from all over the world to witness this magnificent phenomenon. The ticket price for the adult is $18. The castle can be rented for weddings, parties and reception, as well. Though, you wouldn’t want to visit the site on a very wet or humid day as the castle’s open-air plot could make the visit uncomfortable.

Several coral castle images revealed a black box on top of a tripod, which no one could find out what’s inside this coral castle black box.  After he died nobody found the black box.

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coral castle debunked

Edward Leedskalinn worked in complete isolation while building the castle. He only used primitive tools- weighed 100 pounds and stood 5 ft. tall; yet he managed to push, carve and lift such ginormous rocks. Most of the rocks weighed 5 tons; with the biggest one weighing 30 tons, here the question arise- how could a man using only hand-made tools, attained this height? The answer to this question is still unknown.

Many theories presented on how the castle could have built; one theory suggested that Edward Leedskalinn caused the rocks weightless. Ed explained in his pamphlet ‘magnetic current’ that if you reverse the magnetic forces, the objects become lighter.

Another theory is that there is a black box that carries the answer. I have already talked about the black box above that no one could find to this day. Experts believe that the coral castle black box has something to do with how he built the castle.

There were rumours that leedskalinn used exceptional magnetic currents or cast hollow blocks. Other suggested that his property lies on a vortex or he has supernatural powers, like levitation. However, all these theories ignore the fact that a human being, when set their mind with a steady focus and powerful motivation, can attain anything.

castle anti-gravity

The coral castle anti-gravity linked to the black box on top of the tripod. According to the people, the pyramid-like structure could only build by Aliens or an anti-gravity device. Is it possible that he discovered the Anti-gravity or was there really some kind of magnetic current that nullifies gravity in the black box? I couldn’t tell.

The question is still here- how a man 5 feet tall was able to build such structures and moved enormous rocks just like that and make a beautiful coral castle out of it?

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