In 1940, the eminent American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce made one of his strangest prophecies. He predicted that Atlantis would rise from the bottom of the ocean, and this would happen between 1966 and 1970
This prediction, made by Casey shortly before his death, seemed so incredible that almost no one believed him. However, another clairvoyant, the Rosicrucian Master Raymond Bernard, in his 1961 book The Invisible Empire, confirmed this prophecy. And then in 1968 an amazing event happened. French diver Dmitry Rebikoff noticed geometrically regular stone slabs underwater near the island of North Bimini, which belongs to the group of the Bahamas in the Atlantic Ocean!
The news spread rapidly around the world and caused a sensation. It seemed that the real traces of Atlantis, the legendary country that plunged into the ocean, according to Plato, 12 thousand years ago, had finally been found. Right after Rebikoff, the North Bimini bottom was examined by Dr. J. Wallentine, curator emeritus of the Natural Science Museum in Miami. He described the object as "a wide pavement of rectangular flat stones of various sizes, the edges of which are rounded by long years of water erosion" and expressed confidence in its artificial origin. In the same year, Rebikoff, together with a group of specialists from the University of Massachusetts, made aerial photographs of the ocean area near North Bimini and drew up an approximate layout of the mysterious objects. Everything indicated that the remains of some ancient road or foundations of buildings and walls were found,and possibly the tops of buildings protruding from centuries-old bottom sediments.
The expeditions were not crowned with success
Dozens of expeditions visited North Bimini over the next 40 years. Thousands of scuba divers, mesmerized by the dream of finding the legendary Atlantis, dived seven meters deep to the strange stone "roads". Overgrown with shells and underwater vegetation, they protrude about 20 centimeters above the surface of the oceanic soil and stretch, folding in some places at an obtuse angle. The length of the "roads" is 100-150 meters. Similar objects were also found near another island from the group of the Bahamas - Andros.
Most of the expeditions investigating the "Bimini Roads" were unsuccessful. Underwater archaeologists have tried excavations to determine how deep the blocks lie, but no one has been able to reach their base. This was hampered by strong underwater currents and eddies. In addition, the local waters are full of white sharks - the most dangerous for humans, and the bottom is teeming with moray eels.
It is not for nothing that the region of the Bahamas is notorious among submarine athletes. By the way, the Bahamas are part of the Bermuda Triangle. Therefore, it should not be surprising that two expeditions to North Bimini went missing, while the participants in the rest encountered very unusual phenomena.
Glow of the seabed
On March 24, 1979, Americans Jim Ventana and Harold H. Wilson, while diving off North Bimini at six o'clock in the afternoon, saw a luminous triangular object with a wingspan of about twelve meters in the water. The triangle, rapidly moving above the very bottom, made several sharp turns, and then emerged from the water, soared into the sky and disappeared. This object was also seen by people on a boat waiting for the divers.
In June 1998, a French expedition led by D. Vallot late in the evening observed the bluish glow of the ocean floor in the North Bimini area. The luminous area was a wide, straight strip with distinct edges; moreover, the strip did not stand still, but moved. The source of the strange glow was not found. The phenomenon lasted for about forty minutes.
As it turned out later, the glowing strip was noticed from a fishing schooner, which was nearby; spotted it and the American space satellite.
Three-meter stranger
An incredible story was told by a diver, John March, who dived to the Bimini Road in 2000. In clear weather at sunset with good visibility, he noticed a dark human figure, which walked along the ancient slabs (it was walking, not floating). March was particularly struck by the fact that the man was without a spacesuit. Very tall, about three meters tall, the stranger was moving towards the diver. March thought he was wearing a tight-fitting jumpsuit. However, neither clothing nor face could be seen in the bluish fog; the approaching figure was a solid, dark silhouette. March later said that at that moment it was not even in his thoughts to swim up to the strange figure, on the contrary, his whole being longed for only one thing: to escape from here as soon as possible.
Suddenly there was a severe headache. Without waiting for the stranger to approach, March floated to the waiting yacht. He felt so overwhelmed that he barely managed to cling to the ladder hanging from the side. The pain disappeared in ten minutes. And then it turned out that the heads of the entire crew of the yacht ached, and the pain began for everyone at the same time, coinciding in time with March's appearance.
Is the metal colonnade preserved?
Immediately after the opening of the "Bimini roads", there were skeptics who tried to prove their natural origin. Geologist Eugene Shinn suggested that "roads" could have been formed by the tides. Later, a version was put forward that the "roads" are sea shells and sand, compressed into rectangular formations over hundreds of years. Dr. Greg Little of the University of Georgia, a professional submariner and archaeologist, wrote about it this way: "Such delusional theories come up with those who have never dived to the" roads ", have not seen them with their own eyes, did not touch their amazing stones."
By the way, Dr. Little's expeditions to North Bimini in 2003 and 2004 gave probably more information about these objects than all the previous ones combined. Little and his team found a second similar under a layer of stone blocks, and even lower - a third. Little did not manage to get to the base of the ancient building, and therefore he concluded that these were not roads, but, most likely, the tops of walls buried under bottom sediments.
When inspecting a very small part of the second layer of slabs, which we managed to open, it was found that it was less affected by water erosion, the slabs were carefully polished and fitted quite tightly to each other. The devices showed the presence of voids under the bottom in the area of the "roads", as well as metal. This is unusual for the entire area, since there are no metal deposits either in the Bahamas itself or in the adjacent Atlantic area. Underground metal objects, which were fixed by the device, are located mostly to the north and north-west of the "roads", and they are located as if dotted, interspersed, and form a wide semicircle. Little believes that this is possibly an ancient metal colonnade that once supported (and maybe still supports) the vaults of some building.
In 2004, one of the expedition members was killed by a shark, and the work had to be closed ahead of schedule. But Dr. Little intends to return here in the future.
Traces of the legendary country
Researchers have tried three times to determine the age of the "roads". In 1968, having studied the bottom topography and geological layers, scientists suggested that they are 2 - 2.5 thousand years old. However, in the 80s, new studies pushed back the time of their creation up to the X-IX millennia BC. Research in the 2000s "aged" the underwater object for another thousand years. Now it is assumed that "roads" appeared in the XI-X millennia BC. Analysis of the stones showed that they were originally on land.
The most striking thing is that if you focus on the above dates, then the age of the "roads of Bimini" generally corresponds to the age of Atlantis, indicated by Plato in his famous dialogues "Critias" and "Timaeus". According to Plato, who refers, in turn, to Egyptian sources, Atlantis perished in the X millennium BC. But, among other things, there is also the prophecy of Cayce, who directly said that Atlantis should rise from the bottom of the ocean. Now
almost no one doubts that the clairvoyant meant "Bimini roads."
Was Casey right this time too, and we got tangible traces of the existence of the legendary country?
Be that as it may, in connection with the discovery of underwater ruins near North Bimini, the question of the time and place of the emergence of the first ancient civilizations again arose on the agenda of historical science. Now it is quite obvious that already at the end of the fourth ice age the human race consisted not only of primitive hunters with stone axes in their hands.
Igor V0L03NEV
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