| One of the greatest myths regarding the Coral Castle | | | | assume that he was using conventional means to |
| located in Homestead Florida just south of Miami, | | | | move these megalithic pieces of coral. |
| Florida is the origin of its famous 9 Ton Gate. This | | | | Upon further consideration you realize that Edward |
| amazing 18,000 pounds of coral is said to be the | | | | Leedskalnin was not only capable of moving large |
| reason why the original Coral Castle which was in | | | | pieces of coral that only modern machinery can move |
| Florida City, Florida was called by Edward Leedskalnin | | | | today, but his engineering prowess in being able to |
| "Rock Gate Park". This is actually an easy assumption | | | | maneuver these enormous objects in such a way that |
| based upon the fact that it is one of the more | | | | they would be perfectly balanced, one can only |
| mysterious and enigmatic features of this modern | | | | imagine he had laser precision tools or that he was |
| monolithic structure that was made famous by | | | | one of the luckiest builders in history. |
| Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame on his series "In | | | | Since it is illogical to assume that luck was the basis of |
| Search Of" in the early 1980s. | | | | his amazing abilities, and due to the fact that any |
| The truth of the matter is that the 9 Ton Gate at its | | | | modern equipment of that size would have been easily |
| present location at the Coral Castle in Homestead | | | | noticeable, you must take into account the myths and |
| was taken directly out of the ground in the quarries | | | | stories of Ed Leedskalnin regarding how he is said to |
| there, and not in Florida City. This is easy to understand | | | | have worked at night and that no one ever saw him |
| when you have actually gone to the Coral Castle and | | | | working and that he sang to the stones which caused |
| looked at the coral that it is made of. | | | | them to float in place. |
| There are actually two types of coral at the Coral | | | | Although the idea of levitation is plausible in theory in |
| Castle. The coral structures that were moved from | | | | our modern world, today we still do not have a means |
| Florida City to Homestead during the period of 1937 to | | | | by which we can levitate regular sized objects |
| 1941 were made of a very dark and layered oolite | | | | weighing even 10 or 20 pounds without utilizing some |
| coral. The other kind of coral is that which most of us | | | | kind of modern technology. Yet here was a man that |
| are familiar with if we go snorkeling and see the very | | | | was able to defy modern physics, and that claimed to |
| porous coral made famous by scenes of the coral | | | | know the secrets of the ancient pyramid builders, |
| reefs. | | | | leaving behind a structure that no one can make |
| The coral that the 9 Ton Gate is made of is the | | | | today. How can you not believe that he was telling the |
| porous coral which is indigenous only to the | | | | truth when he has created a structure that has no |
| Homestead Florida site, not the Florida City site. The | | | | equal in modern times and has not been replicated |
| more layered darker coral which "Rock Gate Park" is | | | | either physically or mathematically by those with |
| made of is not what you see after examining this | | | | modern skills that should be able to do so if it were |
| 18,000 pound piece of coral. | | | | possible. |
| I am not sure why Ed called his initial structure "Rock | | | | Going back to the discussion of the original location of |
| Gate Park", but based upon the composition of the | | | | the 9 Ton Gate, if it was never in Florida City, why did |
| coral that the 9 Ton Gate is made of, it is clear that it | | | | he call his original site Rock Gate Park? Of all of the |
| was created in Homestead and was never in Florida | | | | pieces brought over from Florida City, none of them |
| City. | | | | resemble a gate. Perhaps we will never know what |
| Regardless of the fact that the 9 Ton Gate is the | | | | inspired Ed to name his rock garden "Rock Gate Park". |
| result of Ed's work in Homestead, Florida, if you | | | | However we do know one thing: the 9 Ton Gate is |
| consider the magnitude of his achievement in creating | | | | both a scientific and technological impossibility to have |
| a gateway that was 18,000 pounds and perfectly | | | | been created in the 1930s by one man that had no |
| balanced, with a hole cored through this piece of coral | | | | modern tools by which to create such a perfectly |
| at the exact center of balance, and that he somehow | | | | balanced and carved structure of wonder. It is a |
| mounted it by himself with no modern tools and no one | | | | mystery that may never be solved and a structure |
| seeing him work, it defies common sense and logic to | | | | that may never be re-created ever again. |