Amateur claims to have found ‘12,000-year-old underwater city with pyramid & energy field off US coast’
A RETIRED architect has bizarrely claimed to have found an ancient underwater city with a pyramid and energy field off the coast of Louisiana.
George Gelé, who calls himself an amateur archaeologist, has taken 44 trips to the site of what he believes are the ruins of a 12,000-year-old city – a theory that is not backed up by experts.
“Somebody floated a billion stones down the Mississippi River and assembled them outside what would later become New Orleans."
";Who could have constructed a solid granite structure roughly the size of the Caesar’s Superdome in these waters, now covered with silt?
"Mr. Gelé has interesting theories about the origin, age, and purpose of this pyramidal structure."
While the thought of a lost city is enticing, some scientists shared other ideas about what the mounds are.
OTHER THEORIES
Gelé explored hypotheses about the granite masses in a , including the possibility that they originated from a construction dump or multiple shipwrecks.
He theorized the stones were part of an attempt to create an artificial reef in the 1940s by dumping building materials in the water.
"I think simply searching underwater at this point won’t give us any more answers," Mann told the newspaper.
"When the historical archive work is done, looking at records and newspapers, that’s when we will know what it is."
The newspaper also talked with the state's archaeologist at the time, who agreed that it appeared barge loads of stone were dumped there.
“But why and why there?" he said.
"Those are questions that need to be answered."
STONES SPARK DISCUSSION
Some social media users shared their skepticism of Gelé's claims, with one person writing, "Entrance to the lake. A perfect place to offload ballast."
Another commenter said: "Actual archaeologist here. I fixed your headline: Retired architect thinks natural features are ancient city."
But others were still curious about the alleged energy field out there, and what could have produced it.
“All I know is somebody built a city 12,000 years ago and it’s stuck out in Chandeleur,” Gelé claimed.
“Whether or not they had someone on their shoulder who flew in with a UFO, I don’t know.
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"All I know is they left a whole lot of granite rocks out there.”
Gelé added that he hopes modern sonar technology and satellite imaging can help unlock some of the secrets of the mounds.
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