Almost everyone knows about Easter Island who is even slightly interested in the history of mankind and its mysteries. Of course, when you mention this island, you immediately recall its mysterious stone idols, but this is only one of the secrets of the mystical piece of land, lost in the endless ocean. Recently, more and more often in the articles and reports of scientists, travelers and researchers, there are references to the mysterious and dangerous dungeons of the famous island.
Roads "drowned" in the ocean
When you see the famous statues of Easter Island, called by the locals - moai, you immediately realize that this small piece of land in the middle of the ocean is one of the most mysterious places on Earth. Hundreds of huge stone idols weighing from 12 to 80 tons are scattered throughout the island, it seems that in the distant past some kind of catastrophe occurred here, which stopped the established "production" of stately idols from volcanic tuff.
Easter Island, only 22 kilometers long and 11 kilometers wide, has never had a significant population; there simply were no resources to feed tens of thousands of people. This circumstance allows many researchers to put forward the most fantastic hypotheses regarding the origin of the giant statues. Some say that the small population of the island simply could not create such a number of statues, so they associate the origin of moai with aliens, others put forward an even more "cool" version that the statues literally spat out some mystical forces from the bowels of the earth.
Alas, Thor Heyerdahl died long ago, who could have given a fitting rebuff to these versions, because at one time he revealed all the rather simple secrets of making stone idols. The islanders hewed statues from volcanic tuff in a quarry on the slope of the Rano Raraku volcano, where not only thousands of stone axes and picks were found, but also unfinished statues, which until the very last moment were connected with their backs to the rock.
Thor Heyerdahl hired several islanders as an experiment, who outlined the contours of the statue and began to hew it out with stone axes, occasionally pouring water on the rock to soften it. Three days later, a fairly clear silhouette emerged from the rock, and the scientist was able to estimate the time required to make stone colossi. According to his calculations, “any statue of Easter Island could be hewn out by two groups of ten stonemasons in less than a year”.
However, there are many secrets on the island. Whom did these statues represent? Why did they suddenly stop creating them? How did the settlement of this island come about? Where are the origins of the mysterious writing - hieroglyphs on wooden plates rongo-rongo? Where do ancient roads lead directly into the ocean?
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Caves and tunnels in the bowels of the island
Over the history of Easter Island, it has been visited by dozens of scientific expeditions, and its small surface area has been studied quite well. Not surprisingly, the dungeons of the island are now of great interest to scientists. It has been known about the caves on the island for a long time, but no one imagined that its bowels were literally penetrated by a whole system of natural and artificial cavities.
In 2005, an expedition of speleologists and scientists managed to discover on the island a system of caves six kilometers long. In the eastern part of the island, 45 caves were discovered at once, many of which "presented" very valuable finds to archaeologists. Axes, spearheads and arrowheads, amazing rock carvings, 30 human skeletons - all this was found during the examination of the caves. It is believed that the locals used these caves as refuge during various conflicts that took place on the island. According to Claudio Cristino, an archeology expert at the University of Chile, the refuge caves could have been used to store fresh water. The caves on Easter Island are very ramified, in addition, the natural cavities in the earth are complemented by hundreds of artificial underground passages, not only connecting the caves, but also leading into the depths of the island. They say that the caves and passages form several levels, the lowest of which are practically unexplored. Local connoisseurs of the island's underground have also become a rarity, and in the 18th century there were frequent cases when aborigines crossed the island using only underground passages.
What do the lowest levels of the dungeons hide? It is believed that there may be hundreds of caches of artifacts associated with the ancient history of the island. At one time, Thor Heyerdahl and his colleagues managed to descend about 100 meters inland, the researchers then discovered several very strange stone figurines; it is still unknown which civilization representatives made them. So in the depths of the island, scientists can expect a lot of interesting things.
Guard Ball Phenomenon
Scientists are well aware of this and have long been making attempts to penetrate the lowest levels of the island's dungeons. However, those who descended below the fifth level disappeared without a trace. About 60 people have already disappeared, after which the authorities banned the study of the lowest levels. Where did people disappear to? Nobody knows that. There are rumors that some of the disappeared were allegedly found in a deranged state in Africa or Australia, but they could no longer explain or remember anything.
However, this is hard to believe, as well as the version that tunnels can go from Easter Island to the coast of Chile and to Asia. Some researchers believe that mining was carried out under the island in ancient times, others even believe in the presence of some underground civilization in the depths of Easter, whose representatives kidnap scientists. According to local legends, the island's underground passages were once paved by mysterious birdmen. Who were they and were they really? This is anyone's guess.
Our Russian scientist Professor Ernst Muldashev encountered a mysterious phenomenon while trying to enter the dungeons of Easter Island. The scientist and his colleagues were literally attacked by mysterious energy balls. When the balls approached people, they felt very unpleasant sensations - from dizziness and nausea to inexplicable fear. When trying to overcome these symptoms volitionally, they intensified so much that people were forced to turn back. What are these guardian balls guarding in the dungeons? What secrets are hidden there? According to Ernst Muldashev, the balls are the dematerialized ancient inhabitants of the island; they did not allow the researchers to penetrate deep into all the thirteen caves they visited. The presence of such unusual guards can only mean that important secrets are actually hidden in the depths of Easter Island. Will scientists ever be able to "negotiate" with these guards and find out what they are guarding?
Author: Maxim Sirotkin