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In 1964, an Antarctic research vessel photographed a mysterious and unidentifiable object on the sea bed. In the first of a two-part investigation, Peter Brookesmith explains how the ‘Eltanin antenna’ generated a soap opera from another Universe.

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LEFT: Drawing from The face of the deep, based on the Eltanin photograph .

RIGHT: Illustration from The face of the deep, taken from Alexander Agassiz’s sketch of the sponge Cladorhiza concrescens, from samples dredged up during the Antarctic voyages of the SS Blake in the 1870s and 1880s.

Whitley Strieber, whose 1987 book Communion did so much to make intergalactic grey dwarves a subject of dinner-table chatter in even the best-regulated households, is clearly a man prepared to entertain many rare and unusual ideas. Visitors to his website may sample the kinds of things that fascinate Strieber, and will find this cogitation:

Between 1962 and 1979 the NSF [National Science Foundation] Polar Research Vessel Eltanin surveyed Antarctic waters, studying the ocean and ocean bottom. In 1964, the ship photographed an unusual object at a depth of 13,500 feet [4,115m]. At the time, there was no submarine that could have carried a piece of technology to this depth.

The object appears to be a pole rising from the ocean floor with twelve spokes radiating from it, each ending in a sphere. The spokes are at 15 degree angles to each other. It is located approximately 1,000 miles [1,600km] south [sic] of Cape Horn, beneath some of the most inhospitable seas in the world.

There exists the possibility that it is an antenna or other scientific instrument that was lost by an early research vessel, but once again, this would appear to be a very forced explanation. It seems unlikely that an object could drop through [over] three miles of ocean, and anchor itself on the bottom.

In addition, the position of the antenna is so exact, and so strangely significant, that it would seem almost certain that it was intentionally put there. Who did it, with what technology and why remains unknown. However, it’s clear that there could be an enormous secret connected with the Eltanin antenna, and one that might not be entirely unknown to certain members of the scientific community.

Could it be possible that the Eltanin antenna is a piece of ancient technology, or even technology that comes from another world? Other researchers are now suggesting that modern science might be well aware of the purpose of the object, and might be actively monitoring it or using it in some way.
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http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/155/the_eltanin_enigma.html


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One summer day in 1795 Daniel McGinnis, then a teenager, was wandering about Oak Island, Nova Scotia (see Geography) when he came across a curious circular depression in the ground. Standing over this depression was a tree whose branches had been cut in a way which looked like it had been used as a pulley. Having heard tales of pirates in the area he decided to return home to get friends and return later to investigate the hole.

Over the next several days McGinnis, along with friends John Smith and Anthony Vaughan, worked the hole. What they found astonished them. Two feet below the surface they came across of layer of flagstones covering the pit. At 10 feet down they ran into a layer of oak logs spanning the pit. Again at 20 feet and 30 feet they found the same thing, a layer of logs. Not being able to continue alone from here, they went home, but with plans of returning to search more.

It took the three discoverers 8 years, but they did return. Along with The Onslow Company, formed for the purpose of the search, they began digging again. They quickly got back to 30 foot point that had been reached 8 years ago. They continued down to 90 feet, finding a layer of oak logs at every 10 foot interval. Besides the boards, at 40 feet a layer of charcoal was found, at 50 feet a layer of putty, and at 60 feet a layer of coconut fiber.

At 90 feet one of the most puzzling clues was found - a stone inscribed with mysterious writing.

Note: For more information about the stone inscription and to try your hand at translating the stone's inscription go here.

After pulling up the layer of oak at 90 feet and continuing on, water began to seep into the pit. By the next day the pit was filled with water up to the 33 foot level. Pumping didn't work, so the next year a new pit was dug parallel to the original down to 100 feet. From there a tunnel was run over to The Money Pit. Again the water flooded in and the search was abandoned for 45 years.

As it turns out, an ingenious booby trap had been sprung. The Onslow Company had inadvertently unplugged a 500 foot waterway that had been dug from the pit to nearby Smith's Cove by the pit's designers. As quickly as the water could be pumped out it was refilled by the sea.

This discovery however is only a small part of the intricate plan by the unknown designers to keep people away from the cache.

In 1849 the next company to attempt to extract the treasure, The Truro Company, was founded and the search began again. They quickly dug down to 86 feet only to be flooded. Deciding to try to figure out what was buried before attempting to extract it, Truro switched to drilling core samples. The drilling produced some encouraging results.
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http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/OakIsland/story.html


Hey guys, just been sent these, thought they where interesting so i decided i'd share them with you.

Some of the information from the websites are really weird and strange, but its incredible fascinating.
 
smells like an old tale! are they any factual sites that back any of this up? with modern technology you could easily find out if anything is their and if 3 chests were really saw some rich nutter would be digging it right now
 
arknor said:
smells like an old tale! are they any factual sites that back any of this up? with modern technology you could easily find out if anything is their and if 3 chests were really saw some rich nutter would be digging it right now
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I haven't found any "Hard" evidence, just other sites listing the same information.
 
The sea bed antennae one is quite interesting as is the money pit but that one is more of a legend now.

Richard Branson needs to get his Deep Voyager craft to take a look at it TBH :p
 
Khaaan! said:
The sea bed antennae one is quite interesting as is the money pit but that one is more of a legend now.

Richard Branson needs to get his Deep Voyager craft to take a look at it TBH :p
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sea bed atennae is actually solved.
The ‘Eltanin antenna’, no matter how you look at it, is a sponge. Not the kind you’d find useful in your bath, but a living creature nonetheless, and one that biologists have examined in the flesh. It is definitely not a mechanical device or an alien implant in the ample bosom of Mother Earth. Nor was the position of the Eltanin example, no matter how significant it may be to numerologists, exactly remarkable. As its earliest chronicler noted, Cladorhiza concrescens lives all over the place in these latitudes – usually in large clumps – on the ocean floor. The one snapped by the Eltanin happened to be a loner, standing tall amid a forest of manganese nodules. Its full taxonomic profile:

Phylum: Porifera

Class: Demospongia

Order: Poecilosclerida

Family: Cladorhizidae

Genus: Cladorhiza

Species: Concrescens
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OriginalJonty said:
The Bloop has fascinated me for a while as has the Wow! Signal.
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Wow! Signal was the Culture ship Arbitrary, deliberately letting itself be detected before it zipped off into hyperspace just to give humans something to talk about. Read the main short story of The State Of The Art:

The novella chronicles a Culture mission to Earth in the late Seventies, and also serves as a prequel of sorts to Use of Weapons by featuring one of that novel's characters, Diziet Sma. Here, Sma argues for contact with Earth, to try and fix the mess the human species has made of it; another Culture citizen, Linter, goes native, choosing to renounce his Culture body enhancements so as to be more like the locals; and Li, who is a Star Trek fan, argues that the whole "incontestably neurotic and clinically insane species" should be eradicated with a micro black hole. The ship Arbitrary has ideas, and a sense of humour, of its own.
'Also while I'd been away, the ship had sent a request on a postcard to the BBC's World Service, asking for 'Mr David Bowie's "Space Oddity" for the good ship Arbitrary and all who sail in her.' (This from a machine that could have swamped Earth's entire electro-magnetic spectrum with whatever the hell it wanted from somewhere beyond Betelgeuse.) It didn't get the request played. The ship thought this was hilarious.'
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:D
 
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Has the purpose of Stonehedge been figured out yet? Or is it still just speculation? The Wiki didn't really say much about that aspect, just more about the timeline.
 
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