Remains of Massive Pyramid found in American Midwest United States

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**Sloof Lipra Pyramid** submitted by bat400 : Site of the Sloof Lipra Pyramid. Destroyed in the infamous Raintree County Limestone Rush. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The half-buried foundation in rural Indiana is all that remains of this ancient American monument. Only after the suicide of an elderly backwoodsman were his crazed hints of an "Indian Sundial" investigated. The massive foundation stones make up a base 1200 feet on a side. The pyramid is estimated to have stood 500 feet high. "It's like an American Stonehenge," states enthusiastic Southern North Dakota University Professor Indira Phatewus.

For years Sloofanezer Lipra's neighbors were alternately badgered by his tales of a massive structure in the outlying fields of his farm, or threatened for approaching his property lines. "Old Sloofy," his closest friend, octogenarian Sid Finch recalls, "he'd talk about it when he got the staggers. Said the French and Indians were in cahoots and built it way back. Said it lined up with the North Star and Gnaw Bone Mountain. He said he'd prove it to everybody. Then he'd hit me with a stick. Big ol' knotted one. Sloofy could be a mean ol' cuss."

Actually the huge edifice has been dated to 700 AD by sacrificial remains under one corner of the foundation. Professor Indira Mydra Phatewus found the skeletal remnants of two thousand and twelve male opossums during her 2006 excavation, each carefully dressed in tiny woven pine needle tunics and outfitted with polished stone ear ornaments. "The culture that created the structure was obsessed with opossums. Ceramics, incised stone tablets; it's all decorated with opossums." The structure appears to have been built to align a nearby hilltop with Polaris. Small associated stone huts aligned the central pyramid with the rising locations of Sirius, the Pleiades, and Tau Ceti.

The Pyramid was apparently destroyed during Raintree County's infamous, but brief, 1829 Limestone Rush. Several huge natural outcroppings along the Gnaw Bone River were completely flattened. Careful study of newspapers and legal proceedings of the period lead to the conclusion that the nearby Sloof Lipra Pyramid, by that time worn and covered by grapevine and knotweed, was also destroyed. "It's a sobering monument to the long vanished peoples who created it," says Phatewus, "possibly the Welsh - or the Toltecs."

Story from the Gnaw Bone Indiana Gazette Herald Telegraph.

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