The Bimini Road
In 1968 divers off North Bimini in the Bahamas found, at five metres, a half-kilometre line of rectangular limestone blocks laid out straight. Its coincidence with Edgar Cayce's prophecy that Atlantis would appear off Bimini in exactly 1968 made the find famous. The USGS geologist Eugene Shinn cored the blocks through: the internal bedding of adjacent stones continues from one to the next as in a single slab, and the radiocarbon dates increase steadily along the line. It is beachrock, cracked into rectangles as it dried, and it occurs on coastlines everywhere.
Philadelphia and the Kangaroo with Bronze Wings
For a week in January 1909 southern New Jersey and Philadelphia lived in a panic: thousands reported tracks in the snow and a flying creature, schools closed, factories sent workers home. In the middle of it Norman Jefferies, publicity agent for Philadelphia's Arcade Museum, announced that the Jersey Devil had been captured. In the case sat a kangaroo he had bought, with bronze wings fastened to its back, and a man poking the cage to keep it moving. Jefferies admitted it himself years later — along with the fact that some of that week's eyewitness reports had also been his work.
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