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In the Caribbean Ocean near Mexico Florida lies the island on Bimini. The island is largely hailed as a tropical paradise with a flirtatious breeze, generous sunshine, and stupendous scuba diving. But until 1968 not even the people there really knew how good the diving was.
It was in 1968 that a pilot noticed a strange feature in the water just north of the island. The water there is surrealistically clear, and only about 15 feet deep. He could see to the bottom quite well, and noticed a pair of darker features, long and mostly straight running in parallel. He mentioned the sight, of course, but the novelty might have been lost then and there were it not for Edgar Cayce … a gentleman who had died 14 years previous.
Edgar Cayce was quasi-famous healer, medium, and prognosticator born in 1877. In his childhood Cayce’s father struck him for being unable to spell the word “cabin”. The blow knocked him from his chair. While lying there on the floor he claimed to have clearly heard a voice say, “If you sleep a little, we can help you.” When he awoke he knew the book word for word, and could repeat any part of it upon demand. He maintained the ability through his entire life; if he slept with a book beneath his head he’d know it through when he woke. Later, after getting pegged in the brain-box with a baseball, he developed a means to enter a trance and diagnose the ills of people and render advice for their mending. Somewhere between the two he began making prophecies.
Among his foretellings of World Wars and the sinking of New York and Japan, in 1936 Cayce said that the “First signs of Atlantis rising would occur in the Bahamas, near the island of Bimini” in the area of 1967 or 1968.
So when a pilot in the predicted years made a note of an oddity around the predicted locale, there was a cliqué who took notice. The publicity served to bring light to something truly interesting: The long, dark formation under the water are, in fact, unusual stones laid out, almost like very large paving stones making a road.
Some see these as a natural formation, and nothing over which to get excited. Others think that maybe they are remnants from the 15th century she ships from the Imperial Chinese Fleet were caught in a storm and, in order to commence repairs, the fleet had to create an ad hoc dry dock using their large, rectangular ballast stones. There are yet others who think that Cayce was right on the money, and it is an ancient and eroded road to Atlantis.
There is no consensus on where the stones came from, but many divers who go down to see the road with their own eyes refuse to believe it is a natural formation. The rocks fit too evenly, stay at too uniform a width, and conform to too straight a line. (If it were a crack that filled in with magma from underneath, however, it would conform to those rules.)
Personally, I think I need to go see it. If it leads to Atlantis or not is trivial; it’s plopped into the middle of paradise. That’s reason enough.
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Works for me! Road trip, plane trip, dive trip!! :-)
The author must be working for the Bimini Tourist Bureau.
Perhaps you mean Edgar Cayce? Even your link is labeled Edward Cayce but goes to a site that says Edgar.
pebecker said: “Perhaps you mean Edgar Cayce? Even your link is labeled Edward Cayce but goes to a site that says Edgar.”
Right you are … for reasons unknown my brain loves to contort names.
Some of Edgar Cayce’s history that you bring up is new to me. I did read a book based on his life and found it very interesting. As far as the Atlantis site goes I believe someone lays claim to it being in the Mediterrean Sea although that is also yet unproven. A site there, just unproven as it being Atlantis.
A path of stones doesn’t really strike me as something amazing. After looking at the pictures you can definitely see that the path was man made, its no natural formation. But the island of Bimini has been inhabited for long. The natives of the same island could have made that hundreds of years ago, its not necessarily the path to Atlantis. But definitely worth the sight.
You should also fix the location — Bimini is part of the Bahamas, the closest of the Bahamian islands to the United States, about 50 miles off the east coast of Florida. It’s really nowhere near Mexico.
The other interesting thing about Bimini is that it’s where Ponce de Leon’s native guides told him he’d find the Fountain of Youth. There *is* a strange freshwater spring in the lagoons on the south island (there are actually two islands that make up the “island” of Bimini).
grant – tell us more.
As for these formations, they are trully preplexing and point convincingly to human involvement, yet nature can be surprising. It is indeniable though that these formations closely resemble inca acrhitecture as can be observed in machu pichu (peru).
http://www.biminiundersea.com/bimini.htm
http://www.biminiundersea.com/legends.htm
I fly to bimini every day. It IS beautiful. and not too close to mexico ;-)
this edgar cayce stuff fascinates me. . .
Pardon my repetition of a comment I made elsewhere, but I would like to point out that it is a hypocritical double standard to accept the inference of inteligent origins behind the SETI “Wow! signal” and the “Strange Road to Atlantis” as scientific inferences and to reject the inteligent design found in all cells. The complexity and improbability of the structures found in even the simplest of cells easily outranks “the Wow! signal” and the “road to Atlantis” by many orders of magnitude. If it is not pseudoscience to infer that there is intelligence behind what is observed in the “Wow!” SETI signal, and if it is not pseudoscience to infer that there is intelligence behind the “road to Atlantis”, then argument that the inference of intelligent design is not scientific fails, because the inference is used all the time in the sciences.
No archaeologist looking at petroglyphs and wall paintings would infer that such things came about by errosion through the action of wind and water; they would identify such things as resulting from something intelligent, no matter how simple they may be. If the archaeologist is not denounced as practicing pseudoscience, neither should the biologist who concludes that the improbable processes and structures he observes is the result of intelligence.
(Let me also pre-emptively address the challenge that natural selection could account for the complexity involved in even the most basic functions of life: it can’t happen, and there is a logical null-proof for this.)
So… has anyone… like… actually followed this road to see if it goes anywhere?
First a correction: Caribbean Sea, not Ocean.
This is the wrong thread for this (I will also post it to the evolution thread), but in response to Berkana’s comment.
Scientists reponses (including references and further reading) to ID claims about evolution are well documented here:
http://www.talkorigins.org & http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/
I do not have time to search out references, but this is a natural occuring geologic phenomenon called beach stone. This is not man made.
OK, it is called “beachrock”. Here’s more … http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-01/geologists-adventures.html
Antix
went to one of the sites you link to
as they are still using the faked moth evidence as a reason evolution is not a theory, hard to accept them having a clue if they use fake info.
and a moth changing color is not quite the same as a fish changing into a bird or human.
thats pretty cool
Berkana said: “Pardon my repetition of a comment I made elsewhere, but I would like to point out that it is a hypocritical double standard to accept the inference of inteligent origins behind the SETI “Wow! signal” and the “Strange Road to Atlantis” as scientific inferences and to reject the inteligent design found in all cells. The complexity and improbability of the structures found in even the simplest of cells easily outranks “the Wow! signal” and the “road to Atlantis” by many orders of magnitude. If it is not pseudoscience to infer that there is intelligence behind what is observed in the “Wow!” SETI signal, and if it is not pseudoscience to infer that there is intelligence behind the “road to Atlantis”, then argument that the inference of intelligent design is not scientific fails, because the inference is used all the time in the sciences.
No archaeologist looking at petroglyphs and wall paintings would infer that such things came about by errosion through the action of wind and water; they would identify such things as resulting from something intelligent, no matter how simple they may be. If the archaeologist is not denounced as practicing pseudoscience, neither should the biologist who concludes that the improbable processes and structures he observes is the result of intelligence.
(Let me also pre-emptively address the challenge that natural selection could account for the complexity involved in even the most basic functions of life: it can’t happen, and there is a logical null-proof for this.)”
I may be on your side, but that’s beside the point. When I look at your comment, all I see is bla, bla, bla. You seriously need to speak more eloquently dude.
pseudosanity says:
So… has anyone… like… actually followed this road to see if it goes anywhere?
That is perhaps the best comment on here, and I belive it deserves an answer. Anyone got one?
presumably most of the road is buried or no longer existent, so we can only see a small portion of it.
Here in the Philippines where I live, children during my elementary school days had this legend. It basically said that if you had to cram for an exam, all you had to do was place the stuff that you had to learn under your pillow while you slept, and by the following morning, you’d have memorized all you needed for your test.
While the story about the purported road to Atlantis is intriguing and all, what really piqued my interest was how Edgar Cayce’s story about memorizing any book he placed under his pillow while he slept could have actually been the source of this legend from my childhood. DI indeed!
(PS: For those who are wondering, I did try to “study” for a test using this method, and all I got to show for it was a bunch of crumpled notebooks and not-so-stellar marks. I guess I’m just not made out of the same stuff as Cayce… Oh well…)
To my non-expert knowledge, the “Bimini Road” leads to other structures that altogether have been theorized as being a port/ harbor type thing. The Mediterranean site/s of Atlantis…
… I have heard of are the islands of Santorini (exploded volcano) and Crete (were the Minoans the fabled Atlantians?). Although if you look under the Atlantis entry on Wikipedia you will find many more Mediterranean sites as well. Altogether though, the evidence I have seen yet so far doesn’t seem rock-solid for any one location as being the true Atlantis as purported in myth and legend.
…has anyone ever heard of ‘Limestone Payment’ or ‘Limestone Streets’, you can see it all over North Alabama… in the gulfs (mountain vernacular, for canyon) and caves of the area, there are large expanses of angular limestone blocks, very tightly interconnected… these look surprisingly the same, as the picture in this article… a great number of which, are more tightly interconnected than these … the formations are all at right angles, and arraigned in various patterns and sizes.
Most of the good-ole-boys (whitewater paddlers – hiking for whitewater runs in the summer and cavers) throughout the state have seen these inter-connected limestone blocks.
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=+limestone+pavement
How illrelevent!?!?Fight your battle when the battle presents itself.
why havent they done an archaeological dig of some sort? that would be a start. couldnt they drill down to see if anything exists further in the depths? good grief, it’s not like we dont have the technology???
i’ve snorkeled the bimini road, and it is rather phenomenal… beautiful!
for shure, we have technology to even see whats there without diggin up all that stuff. So why dont we do it it would be interesting and not very hard to do so. I have always been interested in the topic of Atlantis and would love to know if it exists. Hopefully some day we do find something that says it does exsist and hearing this would make me very interested.
Have you done an article on this ‘Edgar Cayce’ guy?
He sounds like a pretty damn interesting person, I read up a bit about him, and from what the ‘all mighty internet’ tells me quite a few of his predictions came true.