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Huevos Grande!

As some of you may know, almost half of the staff of Doodiepants.com live in Costa Rica.  Therefore this post is actually relevant!  We’ll try to keep relevant stuff to a minimum though; and continue to ” focus on being unfocused.”

Anyway……..we’ve come to learn that there are numerous huge stone balls found in random jungle locations in Costa Rica.    They are nearly perfect spheres that measure from a few inches to 8 feet in diameter.  Some weigh several tons!   There are no grand temples in Costa Rica as in other parts of Central and South America and whatever civilization existed here didn’t leave much behind.     These spheres are like the ‘Stonehenge‘ or ‘Easter Island‘ of Costa Rica.

The  mystery, as so eloquently put by “Natural History Magazine” is:

“Why should hundreds of these perfectly shaped spheres, ranging in diameter from a few inches to eight feet, be scattered through the jungles southwestern Costa Rica?  How could prehistoric people have shaped them with only the crudest of tools?  And how could they have moved them over hill and dale from the distant sources of stone?  No other stone balls of like size have been found anywhere else in the world, except for a few in the highlands of Guatemala and in Vera Cruz.  The smooth, beautiful and almost perfectly rounded spheres give mute testimony to the artistic powers of an ancient people and tax modern man’s ingenuity in explaining their workmanship and significance.”

Picture of one of the stone spheres scattered throughout Costa Rica

Arthur C. Clark’s video about these spheres below

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