Fortean Reality

The Old World is a reference to those parts of Earth known to Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus; it includes Europe, Asia and Africa.

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kbs2244
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Re: Fortean Reality

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I am a fan of the “unexplained” and I never heard of this one!
(Insert conspiracy theory here.)
Obviously man made but not recorded in the recording obsessed U K?
Tiompan
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Re: Fortean Reality

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kbs2244 wrote:I am a fan of the “unexplained” and I never heard of this one!
(Insert conspiracy theory here.)
Obviously man made but not recorded in the recording obsessed U K?

Well recorded , and investigated ,it's not even the only example in the area .
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Re: Fortean Reality

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Hmm...yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Grotto,_Margate
The purpose of the structure is unknown, and various theories have dated its construction to any time in the past 3,000 years. Theories include: it was an 18th or 19th-century rich man’s folly; it was a prehistoric astronomical calendar; it is connected with the Knights Templar; it is connected with Freemasonry; it was built by the Phoenicians; it was created by Pythagoreans/Oriental Kabalists; it was a funerary building built by Ancient Cretans; it is linked to a Mexican civilisation of that lived about 12,000 years ago…and so it goes on.

Even more to the point!
Attached to the grotto is a museum, gift shop, and cafe.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.

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uniface

Re: Fortean Reality

Post by uniface »

Considering (it helps when you do this) (with everything) the sheer size and complexity of this, suggesting the idea that somebody managed to carry it out, in complete secrecy, for the purpose of creating a "hook" for a gift shop is beyond contemptible disingenuity.

People like you give idiots a bad name.
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