Mysteries of the World, Charles Lankiwicz [short story to read .txt] 📗

the earth was rectangular, surrounded by mountains and impassable.  However Pythagoras in the 6th Century BC taught that the earth was a sphere. Aristharchus in the 3rd Century BC taught that it revolved around the sun and Eratosthenes around the same time found the circumference of the earth to a very close figure. Undoubtedly Columbus was relying on this when he was promoting his plan to voyage.  Little Green Men

 

The Kensington Stone

      Is a 200 pound piece of granite found in Minnesota during the 19th century. A runic message on it states that a band of Norwegian sailors landed on thcoast and penetrated this far west before being massacred by Indians. Though it has been disputed as a fake, some question how farmers that lived in the area would know enough of ancient runes to have made such a message.

Life in the Galaxy

A number of probes have been sent out looking for radio signals from other civilizations, as well as recording information on our planets. One has a plaque giving information on earth and its inhabitants in case another race would ever find it. In addition, there are radio telescopes on earth looking for such signals. Hopefully who or whatever may find it will have a benign attitude towards us. Could it possibly be that at least some of the UFO’s sighted were probes from another planet?
 

The Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster is said to be in a “loch” or long, narrow inlet from the sea in northern Scotland. It has been sited numerous times over the years goin back to at least Medieval times. Though photographs exist, they are open to question and divers have not found any evidence, perhaps due to the extreme murkiness of the water. It most closely resembles an ancient Plesiosaur. Could it be another survivor?
 

Mantel and Venus

On January 7, 1948 six P51 Mustangs came to Godman airfield on a flight. They were asked to investigate large UFOS observed by numerous people includingthe base commander. Five of the flight dropped out due to lack of fuel or oxygen at the 20,000 foot altitude of the objects. Mantel, however, continued the chase. His wrecked plane was found a few hours later with him dead inside. Explanations were that he was chasing the planet Venus and died from lack of oxygen. But did he? 

The Mayan Jet

A tomb was opened in Yucatan with the image above on top on a coffin lid. Looking at it gives the impression of a man sitting at the controls of a machine that could be a jet of sorts. The image has been associated with the Quetzal, a mythical Mayan bird. Archaeologists scoff at the notion, but could they be wrong?
The bottom illustration shows what it may have looked like were it an actual flying machine. 

Mu

James Churchward, a man of many accomplishments, including inventing armor for ships, published in 1926 at age 75 The Lost Continent of Mu wherein he claimed the existence of a lost continent called Mu in the Pacific ocean, as pictured above. When he was younger in India, he learned how to read a long lost Naga Maya language. It was the language of the Naacal which flourished about 50,000 to 12,000 years ago. He said that this central location was the ultimate source for the civilizations of Egypt, South America, and the Orient and others.  Though geologists dispute this, saying such a continent could not have existed it is true that during the last Ice Age, the water level in that area was much lower than today. 

Nazca Lines

In South America there are numerous graphic outlines of great extent: hundreds of yards. At ground level they are almost invisible, merely scratches in the ground. In order to see them one has to go hundreds of feet in the air.
But how could the ancient Indians have saw them hundreds of years ago or more. They had no flying machines and the nearest mountain ranges are many miles away. It has been speculated that they may have used some type of hot-air balloon but there is no proof for that.
Could they possibly have been markers for an ancient landing field using advanced vehicles, perhaps from space? 

The Philadelphia Experiment

This event allegedly occurred in the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1943 on the USS Eldridge, a destroyer escort. Project Rainbow was an attempt to use Einstein’s unified field theory to attempt to disguise a warship attacking German U-Boats. Powerful electromagnets were used on the Eldridge causing it to be enveloped in a green fog. It also temporarily disappeared to appear briefly in Norfolk, Virginia. Upon return to normal, some crew members were said to have gone insane, others disappeared and some were even said to have somehow bonded with the ship’s metal. The Navy naturally denied anything had happened. The main source for this is one Carlo Allende. Still this may have been worked on as part of the Atomic Bomb development, and the U-Boat menace was at its height in 1943.