Big Sale! Ed Leedskalnin: Waiting For Agnes

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Coral Castle sits on Key West Highway in Homestead, Florida. It was built by a Latvian immigrant with a fourth grade education named Ed Leedskalnin. Jilted on the eve of his wedding in 1912to Agnes Scuffs, the only girl he ever loved, Ed was crushed by her rejection (which she never completely explained to him) and he came to south Florida after traveling around Canada, Texas and California.

Ed was found at night, passed out on a dirt road by a passerby in 1918. Ed was later diagnosed with terminal tuberculosis. The attending doctor told Ed, "Your body is eaten up with tuberculosis--I don't even know how you've made it this far--you have four months to live--maybe six months if you're lucky."

Ed stayed in the home of Herman Harmless where he regained some of his strength. He expressed a desire for some land, a local farmer felt sorry for him and gave him some worthless land that was covered by one inch of top soil and underneath this was four thousand feet of solid coral. The man told Ed the land "was worthless unless you want to farm coral rocks. This was exactly what Ed planned to farm.

Ed went to a junkyard and fashioned his own tools from discarded automobile parts. Ed only worked from midnight to sunrise so no one ever could see how he cut and moved huge blocks of jagged coral (Ed's largest stone weighed 30 tons) and formed them into today's Coral Castle.

This book describes in detail why Ed left his home in Latvia (one of the Baltic States near Russia) came to Florida and built Coral Castle at the edge of the Florida Everglades. It also explores a popular theory of how Ed might have cut and moved stones heavier than those of the Great Pyramid. The true secret of this lost science can never be known, it went into the grave with Ed when he died in a Miami hospital in the same year that I was born, 1951.

When asked how he built Coral Castle, Ed smiled and said, "I know the secret of the Great Pyramid." When asked why he built it, Ed looked off admiringly over the Atlantic Ocean, in the direction of his beloved Latvia and said, "I built it for Agnes--she's coming back to me one day, but I don't know when; until she comes, I'm waiting for Agnes."

Waiting For Agnes Reviews

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

"Waiting for the Movie!", May 9, 2003

Ruth - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waiting For Agnes (Paperback)

The secrets of Atlantis, Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx and the Bermuda Triangle, to name a few, were fully understood by only one man in the last century, Ed Leedskalnin! So why has so little been written about a man with a fourth-grade education who could move blocks of coral weighing over three-thousand pounds...and do so using only the most rudimentary tools? Why do we not have access to volumes of information about an individual who could (and did) devise an apparatus capable of powering an automobile without the utilization of fuel, oil or water? And why, given the fact that Mr. Leedskalnin proved his abilities to the world, were scientists, historians, mathematicians, archaeologists and astronomers not beating his door down in an effort to ascertain his secrets?

While we may never know the answers to these questions, one man has devoted his entire life to telling the story of the mystical, magical world of Ed Leedskalnin! In this magnificent work of literary... Read more

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Awesome Book on the Secrets of Earth-Magick !, December 10, 2006

Magickal Merlin "Wizard" (Death Valley-SoCal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waiting For Agnes (Paperback)

The book is about the life and lost love of Edward Leedskalin.He was a Lativan emigrant ,who settled south of Miami,on the swampland edge,at Homestead,Florida.Ed bought some of the marshland long before Disney's engineers built their own 'Magic-castle' just nearby. Ed was able to 're-discover' the ancient art of stone levitation.A lost practice perhaps known by such legendary figures as Stonehenge's Merlin and the builders of the Great Pyramids of Giza.Modern engineers can only loosely speculate,and yet still today, can not verify the true building methods used.Ed Leedskalin was able to utilize this forgotten skill and never told a soul about his secret engineering methods.Ed probably felt that the stone-secrets would be revealed to other 'chosen ones',by heavenly visiting builders.What amazed me most was that a few select global people with those "almond-oriental shaped eyes" ,may be the decendants of an ancient space-traveling group of beings.They were the 'chosen ones' ,who were... Read more

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Where to buy this book, March 9, 2009

Derek Martin (Toronto, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews