Coral Castle Mystery

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In 1919, at the age of 31, Latvian-born Edward Leedskalnin moved to Florida City as a heartbroken man having been left by his betrothed Agnes Scuffs just each day before their wedding in Riga, Latvia.

Coral Castle's own promotion says Edward Leedskalnin was 26 years old when he was suddenly rejected by his 16-year-old fiancée Agnes Skuvst in Latvia, only one day before the marriage . Leaving for the us , he decreased with allegedly terminal tuberculosis, but spontaneously healed, stating that magnets had some effect on his disease

Coral Castle

The engineering of Leedskalnin’s Coral Castle is shrouded in mystery. At just over five feet tall, he weighed only 100 pounds and is believed to possess worked with quite three million pounds of oolite coral without the help of recent mechanics or any collaborators. Theories abound, from the supernatural to his preternatural knack for ancient sciences.

Edward Leedskalnin

Leedskalnin completed the coral rock carvings within the early 1940s. The oolite coral walls of the castle, which are eight feet tall, four feet wide and three feet thick, weigh quite 58 tons.

Originally called Rock Gate Park, Leedskalnin conducted tours of his Coral Castle during the 1940s for the meager price of 25 cents. Leedskalnin lived until the age of 64. He bequeathed his monumental Coral Castle to a nephew in Michigan who eventually sold it to a family from Illinois. They continued Leedskalnin’s love of his creation and preserved Coral Castle as a museum for all to ascertain and knowledge . Coral Castle was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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