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The Australian Atlantis?:<\/p>\n
\u201cCS\u201d sent us the following amazing tale:<\/p>\n
My discovery was made in 2004 on an island off the coast of Australia. I had already read some material about crystal skulls and I was convinced that if there were any more \u201cgenuine\u201d ones on the Earth, the Aboriginal elders would probably know about it. I was on Magnetic Island off the coast of Townsville (central North Queensland) and I met a guy in a hostel. I found out that this guy was living on the island with a friend and he had heard of the crystal skulls too and we got chatting. He said that he wanted to show me something very interesting in the bush but he would need to ask permission from the Aboriginal elders before we went \u201coff the beaten track\u201d. He went away and said that he would meet me in the same place to embark on this bush-walk. Sure enough the following day he turned up saying that it was OK.<\/p>\n He gave me a brief history of the island, how it is one of the last islands that the Aboriginals have continued to \u201cown\u201d since \u201cwhite fella\u201d came along. The island is known as Magnetic Island due to the fact that compasses cannot work properly anywhere near or on the island; the island is granite and exhibits at least four different types of this rock. There was an Australian Naval Artillery battery built there in 1942\/43 and it operated from July 1943 until the end of WWII. Its forests are about 2,000 years old and it is one of the only remaining places in Australia where there are wild koalas. There is also a large Tiger shark breeding ground near the northeast coast of the island. My guide said that there were sacred sites for the Aboriginal people on the island and that seeing as they trusted him, we were allowed to go exploring. So we packed up our stuff and left early the following morning.<\/p>\n We started on one of the main tracks up one of the many hills on the island; it was a beautiful place to be. As we walked higher and higher, I noticed that more and more rocks appeared. I then noticed something that seemed out of place. There was a great piece of granite amongst vines, sporting a flat top and two straight edges joined at a right angle. The more I looked around, it was obviously a piece of something much larger that had broken off. I knew that a fort had been built on the Island, however we were not in the right area and this was not concrete! It was granite, and the perfect right angle with smooth flat sides and edges. My friend said that if I thought that was cool, wait until we got higher. I took a photo of this rock but it never turned out. Funny, eh?<\/p>\n So we kept walking up and up and I saw more and more scattered rocks and boulders everywhere. We then came to an outcrop with an amazing view of the valley and hills beyond. My friend said, \u201cWhy not take a seat on the Throne?\u201d and motioned to the most amazing stone \u201cbench\u201d I had ever seen. It comprised a large, flat-topped rock that was protruding out of the ground and, behind it, creating the most amazing back\/ shelter to the ground rock, was a huge piece of flat granite slab sporting another obvious right angle coming out of the ground. This big piece of granite looked like it had been carved\/cut to be a perfect slab about a foot in depth but had obviously been broken and was sticking out of the ground at an awkward angle, as if it had fallen down the hill and got wedged by the other rock. It seemed to be buried pretty deep (as with the flat stone that made the seat) and so much vegetation was growing that it was hard to work anything out. However, I knew this had nothing to do with any of the WWII installations, and it certainly didn\u2019t look like Mother Nature had done it on her own.<\/p>\n I sat on the \u201cthrone\u201d and marvelled at the scenery. My friend bent down next to me and pointed towards the smaller hills in the valley. He asked me if I noticed anything about them. I strained hard and came to a slow realisation that all the hills in the valley were roughly the same height and shape. I imagined stripping the trees and there was no question that what would be left behind would be pyramids! I looked at the big rolling hills behind them and saw the beautiful curves of nature. I then looked back at the \u201chills\u201d and saw straight lines. If the trees weren\u2019t there, I would bet my life that there are pyramidal stone structures under that 2,000-year-old forest. However, it\u2019s very unlikely that anyone, including me, would want to burn away the forest, koalas, wallabies and every other creature that lived there just to see if I am right! We counted the structures and there were 7 in total. My mind was buzzing. What had been here before?<\/p>\n My friend motioned that there was much more to see and that from now on we were going off the track. We headed up behind the throne, and when I say \u201cup\u201d, I mean a 60-degree incline up!! We were climbing up through the bush in places that no man has set foot in for a very long time. It was hard going because by that point there were so many rocks and boulders to climb and we rarely had \u201csolid\u201d ground under our feet. We then found ourselves on another path. It had not been created like the tourist trails on the island. It seemed to be built into the hill and it took a leisurely climb following the hill\u2019s contour. It felt much older than WWII. I got the distinct impression that this path had been very busy at some point in its history. I just had the \u201cfeeling\u201d it had seen a lot of feet.<\/p>\n So we walked along this little path, slowly ascending until I looked up and spotted something peculiar and awesome. It was a \u201ctower\u201d made of large cuboid-shaped granite boulders plonked on top of each other. Imagine a little set of wooden bricks piled up in a tower \u2013 this is what it looked like but on a much grander scale. I would say it was at least 30ft high if not more; I had to strain my neck and shield my eyes in order to see the top. Did these people have cranes? I was starting to realise that I was seeing another wonder of the world that seemed to defy our understanding of \u201cprimitive\u201d people; Stonehenge, pyramids, standing stones all have this same \u201cwow\u201d factor that I experienced that day on seeing the \u201ctower\u201d.<\/p>\n There was another structure about four metres away, same principle but shorter and there were granite rocks everywhere. I was compelled to keep pressing forward and as we did so I started to think about my wooden brick analogy. You know when you build a big tower and it collapses? Well there are always \u201cfoundation\u201d bricks left where the structure once stood and then there would be bricks lying around, scattered. Most bricks land quite near to the foundations but there would be a few bricks further away. Now put this brick tower in a steep hill. When the tower collapses some of the bricks fall around the still visible foundation and some bricks would spill out further down the hill. Put this in a real situation with a stone structure on top of a hill and the effects would be the same; whatever the nature of the structure\u2019s demise there would be remnants of the foundations with much debris near the foundations and then there would be scatterings down the hill. It appeared to me that we were nearing what could be the foundation remains of a very big structure indeed.<\/p>\n As we got closer to the very top of the hill, there was an amazing amount of giant boulders towering over us, huge great things proudly dwarfing us and the only thing dwarfing them were the trees. To refer back to my original observations about 90-degree angles I was aware that granite has a way of cracking and splitting that can create some amazing effects. It cracks and splits kind of like a tree can split depending on its grain. Granite also has a grain so it can shed great sheets off itself, break into big pieces, seemingly \u201csliced\u201d like onion layers. These granite boulders around us were showing signs of this, many plunging gaps between pieces that had obviously been whole at one point, slices that looked like onion layers slowly cracking off. However there was still a \u201cnatural\u201d air about it, there were no absolute straight lines and no 90-degree angles. I looked further up to the top of the hill and saw that there were no more trees, just great concentration of rocks and boulders; A \u201cfoundation\u201d perhaps?<\/p>\n Instead of going up, my friend decided we should head a little way down the other side of the hill and he pointed out something on the side of the neighbouring hill, on the coast. There was another large stone formation facing out to sea and my friend said \u201cThat is known as \u201cThe Sphinx\u201d and when you\u2019re on the island the only places you can view it are from where we are standing and from the nearby coast.\u201d It\u2019s not like this thing had any distinguishing features of being a sphinx, no head or anything, but I did see two main rock formations that could have been resting \u201cfront legs\u201d. What was going on? Aboriginals building pyramids, stone towers and sphinxes??<\/p>\n We pressed on downhill and I realised that we were heading down towards the coast. We came upon a huge flat granite rock that protruded out of the hill, probably about 20 square foot. You can walk out onto the rock and look down upon a sheer drop off the edge. Balanced in the centre of this flat rock was a standing stone probably about 8ft tall. Not something you see every day and it was an interesting addition to my already crazy day!<\/p>\n My final discoveries on the island were on the coast. We had descended down the hill and arrived at the rocky shore and decided to head along the coast. I noticed a big \u201crock\u201d because there was something different about it compared to the seemingly endless stretch of rocky coast. I got closer to it and the nearer I got I thought \u201cnature does not make perfect \u201cs\u201d shapes, does it?\u201d I looked all around this \u201crock\u201d and found the head, and the carved eyes were still visible even after water, wind and salt erosion. It was a stone snake, not a doubt in my mind. There was something about it that said \u201chuman made\u201d and not \u201cnature made\u201d. We kept walking and a bit further along the coast my friend pointed over to a rock on the shoreline and I went to check it out. At first I didn\u2019t see anything but then I tipped my head upside down and looked again. It was a canine type head. It was lying with one eye out of the water and the other side of the head looked eroded in the water. The structure of the head was like that of a jackal or dingo: long snout, nostrils, a clear \u201cmouth\u201d line and there were even stumps where the ears should have been but they had broken off. One carved eye was still visible. However, the other side of the head in the water had started to wash the features and head away.<\/p>\n My friend motioned for me to look up and said that we were below the boulders on the top of the hill that we had visited before. Sure enough I was looking up at where we had been standing. Viewing it from down here made it look like the formations had been something once. The fact that a \u201chead of a canine type creature\u201d was directly below this formation and that another formation was already known as \u201cThe Sphinx\u201d really got me thinking. After this amazing bush walk, I went to the Townsville library and asked to see everything they had about the island. The librarian was very helpful and was interested in what I found. She found the geology reports from when the island was first discovered by white men and it was an interesting read. It is one big granite rock and has three other prominent types of granite on its surface. I scanned the article trying to find any other findings like my own but to no avail. According to geologists and scientists, all the granite formation are natural. Normally I would accept that; there are many natural examples on the island of granite rock splitting and shedding layers. However, there was no mention of perfectly flat surfaces, straight lines and right angles in any of the documents.<\/p>\n When I was studying the landscape on our trek up the hill I was looking closely at the way the rocks were lying, the placement of the rocks, trying to work backwards to work out how they came to be where they are. It looked like a lot of these rock placements were debris, a real mess of rocks and chaos and many pieces had fallen in such strange and awkward angles that it looked like a disaster zone that had been taken over by forest. \u201cThe Throne\u201d was a great example because the only reason the \u201cbackrest\u201d was in that position was because it was jammed up against the \u201cbench\u201d rock. It reminded me of the aftermath of 9\/11 with mountains of building debris piled up so high. Imagine if a disaster zone like ground zero were to be left unattended for 2000 years. Eventually nature would take over and it would become a beautiful hilly forest and perhaps only the tops of these \u201chills\u201d would be open to the air. However, only through clearing and digging would the true nature of these hills be revealed.<\/p>\n The fact is, the only way I or anybody could be sure is to clear away all the greenery to reveal what\u2019s underneath. If there are skeleton\/remnants of life, they are well buried under an ancient forest and no one has ever dug to find out. Hidden under those trees in the valley, there may be seven pyramids in a similar formation to those in Egypt and Central America. However, the likelihood is that nothing will ever be uncovered because it is a protected forest and my observations are certainly not enough to instigate any sort of archaeological expedition! But to this day I know I found something truly remarkable, and although I may never be able to \u201cprove\u201d it, my intuition on the matter is far more important to me and I look forward to my next visit to Magnetic Island.<\/p>\n ******<\/p>\n Our Comment:<\/p>\n If CS\u2019s intuition is right, it would imply that something like the Mayan civilisation once existed in Australia. In fact, Magnetic Island is listed amongst a large number of sites in Australia with puzzling features and artefacts that hint at an extraordinary, untold history. See, for example:<\/p>\n