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Building Stonehenge - This Man Can Move Anything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0

Not mysterious. Moving a few tons is not that hard and he spent half his life working on it.

Alien assistance. Definitely aliens.

FTA: "HOW DID HE DO IT?!?!!! OMG COULD IT BE ALIENS OR DID HE REMOVE GRAVITY?! NOT EVEN EINSTEIN COULD FIGURE IT OUT!!!!!111 ... Also, they have a picture of him using a large pulley, and found another pulley in his shed."

How did he do it? Well the same way the egyptians built the pyramids, of course!

Magical old people.

Easy to cut rocks, block and tackle, lots of time, and the occasional help from guys with trucks.

We're at war, and in the middle of the presidential campaign. Is it really ever a slow enough news day for ABC to run a total woo-woo fluff piece like this?

IT'S THE ALIENS. THE ALIENS.

He was just too cheap to buy her any Valentine's Day gifts.

This makes me want to get off my ass and do something for my fiancee, along the same lines

He went to a HSS hire shop the same way the Egyptians did?

For more info on this and a good video, check out : http://miamibeach.plumtv.com/videos/plum_assignmen ...

Why would you build a monument to someone that stood you up at the alter?

I was with this story right up to the point of the aliens. Whats sad is that it would've been a perfectly good piece about a guy that dedicated 28 years of hard labor to the woman that left him.

You peole are jaded.

"What? The little old man only moved 1000 tons of rock? Lame!"

This is a must visit if you ever make it down to Florida. Amazing!

Wow, ABC catches up to a nearly 20 year old episode of Ripley's: Believe it or Not.

Crab people abc, crab people.

FTA: "HOW DID HE DO IT?!?!!! OMG COULD IT BE ALIENS OR DID HE REMOVE GRAVITY?! NOT EVEN EINSTEIN COULD FIGURE IT OUT!!!!!111 ... Also, they have a picture of him using a large pulley, and found another pulley in his shed."

I've been there, It's not that amazing. Actually it's quite boring, and more of a ripoff.

ROCK LOBSTER!!

He was just too cheap to buy her any Valentine's Day gifts.

Actually, I just went to that Live Science website and from there followed the link to the Forgotten Technology site where one man demonstrates how it's very EASY for a single person to move LARGE blocks of concrete. It's really cool - if you're into that kind of stuff I mean. He's got videos and stuff to demo how to use winches, pullies, fulcrums and this 'round road' thing that makes it easy for one person to 'roll' a giant, unwieldy chunk of concrete! I think HIS intention is to try to replicate how the pyramids may have been built - ingenuity, not technology. Way cool.

"Leedskalnin was a self-taught expert on magnetic currents, and one theory holds that he positioned the site to be perfectly aligned with Earth's poles to eliminate the forces of gravity, allowing him to move stones weighing several tons each."

What the ***** is the matter with you people? Undug.

The monument always existed. He simply assembled the State of Florida around it!

How could ABC possibly include 'aliens' in a news story?

Reminds me of that guy who carved thousands of steps into a mountain. Love, lost or alive, will inspire you to do anything.

I was expecting an informative article from a "news" organization. My mistake.

all i can say is wow. i'm not talking about the monument, i mean sure that's cool and all.

i'm talking about the girl, she stands this dude up at the alter and he spends the rest of his life obsessing over her. she had to be one nice piece of ass.

Did he ever get the woman back?

Clearly it was the power of love. Love and pulleys.

He most likely used the method of man-made stones called geopolymers. A type of Ancient cement. He was said to be showman like in nature and and did several thing to try and deceive the public on his true method(ie pictures of large pulley system clearly unable to lift the largest of stones). Most, including the large gate were built in place using wood forms and slow curing cement. This could be the technology of the Egyptians(and the pyramids) as cement was possible knowledge in those times.

http://www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_megalithconstru ...

It would be a bit too much for me and it is not even beautiful! The loveliest achievement was Taj Mahal. I would die for having a new planet with my name!

She was right to dump him. He's obviously an unstable man.

"Like Stonehenge, this site remains a mystery. Who was Bart and how did he manage to write his name in solid cement?"

I like how the overhead "photo" is a painting. *rolls eyes* It is a pretty neat place to visit though.

This story was lame. Coral Castle is not..
He quarried the stone built the castle then moved it piece by piece.

"experts have puzzled over how Leedskalnin, who only had a fourth-grade education, constructed Coral Castle by himself."

Maybe a Latvian 1920's 4th grade education was the equivalent of an american 11th grade education in 2007?

I remember this from that movie Problem Child 1 or 2, or some ***** like that, they had some love monument in it.

I've been there. There is also something awesome that the article doesn't mention: a solid chunk of coral weighing at least a ton is so perfectly balanced that it acts as a revolving door.

1,100 Tons or 5,000 lbs? Which is it? The only reason I clicked the ***** article was because it stated the man moved 1,100 tons. Then I find out it was only 5,000 lbs. If it's a ploy to get me to read the article, 5,000 lbs is so much of a let down that I'm annoyed I read the article, and will forget this 'feat' and only remember the inconsistency, taking nothing they wanted me to take from the article.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think this is the site from google maps:
http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&hl=ja&geocode=&q ...
(I followed the directions on their site, and used the photos from the Coral Castle homepage to find the map spot)
http://www.coralcastle.com/pictures.asp

I've been to Coral Castle. Pretty cool =)

He mostly worked at night... mostly.

If anyone is interested, you can view some pictures taken there on my flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirvanaqween/sets/721 ...

I have alot more, but they arent nearly as interesting

i feel sorry for that guy, never got over that girl