Friday, October 9, 2009

Walshe's Pyramid, NQ, Australia!

Still rummaging through blue sky photographs and saw this one, taken near the tiny town of Gordonvale, and remembered a very funny story:

Walshe's Pyramid.

Walshe's Pyramid is to be seen on the way between the NQ towns of Innisfail and Cairns. It looks very like a pyramid and, on one side in particular, it appears to be man-made ...

... although it is entirely a natural feature.

However, apparently there's a very similar pyramid, almost identical looking to this in fact, in a place called Sona in Romania, and over a dozen years ago, archeologists decided that the Romanian one was an actual real-life pyramid, some remnant proof of the Hapgood Hypothesis of a very early Egyptian Empire (10000-6000 BC) spread over the entire world, including this previously unknown Romanian outpost, and got funding to investigate.

Well, there was lots of stuff about this Romanian pyramid on the news and NQ got all sorts of excited and the talk started, lots of crazy stuff about how obviously since the two pyramids looked so alike, that the Australian one was also a remnant of this ancient Egyptian Empire and this escalated into beyond-crazy "proof-finding" and other gloriously stupid things of this nature.

Anyway, the talk in Romania suddenly stopped and we never got any sort of announcement of their discovery so I guess there wasn't one ...

... and a very shamefaced NQ also shut up, and to this day no one ever mentions Walshe's Pyramid being man-made; and they definitely won't thank you for bringing it up.

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