Discovered deep in the jungle of southern Mexico are dozens of huge 40 ton stone heads which have remained hidden for almost 3,000 years. Radio carbon dated to almost 900 years before Christ, these mysterious megalithic heads easily predate Christopher Columbus by more than 2,000 years and long predate the ancient Maya and Aztec civilizations as well.

Each head was meticulously carved out of a single basalt boulder (an extremely hard fine grained volcanic rock second in hardness only to diamonds), without the use of modern diamond edged cutting tools. As if this were not enough, defying gravity and the laws of nature, the heads were then somehow lifted and carried without damage, more than 120 kilometers up and over formidable mountains, across raging rivers, through tropical jungles with quick sand swamps, all without the benefit of any roads, bridges or vehicles with which to move them.

Some have posited that the stone heads with strange helmets covering their ears depict mystical leaders or gods. Others have hypothesized that the clear prevalence of African and oriental facial features may represent a fusion of African and Pre Columbian indigenous peoples. However, paleoanthropologists agree that such a fusion 3,000 years ago was impossible.

The how, the why, and by what or by whom the heads were created and transported are questions which are beyond the scope of modern technology. They are questions for which we simply have no answers, and represent yet another mystery in the continuing saga of the Yucatan Peninsula’s ancient history.

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We’re all familiar with Indiana Jones movies as well as the 2008 blockbuster “Kingdom of The Crystal Skulls”.

If you’re looking for a good mystery to wrap your mind around, look no further than Mexico’s Crystal Skulls. In the past crystal skulls have been discovered at ruin sites across Mexico. But now a new crystal skull has been discovered in an ancient ruin in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The lore surrounding the crystal skulls is one worth studying, especially if you start with the famous Mitchell-Hedges skull.

The Mitchell-Hedges skull is the most mysterious for at least 2 reasons; first, it is very similar in form to an actual human skull, even featuring a fitted removable jawbone. Second, it is impossible to say how the Mitchell-Hedges skull was constructed. From a technical standpoint, it appears to be an impossible object which today’s most talented sculptors and engineers would be unable to duplicate.

The unknown artist also used no metal tools. Investigators have been unable to find signs of any tell-tale scratch marks on the crystal, under high-powered microscopic analysis. Indeed, most metals would have been ineffectual, for the crystal has a specific gravity of 2.65, and a “Mohs Scale” hardness factor of 7.

The enigma of the skull, however, does not end with only how it was made. The zygomatic arches (the bone arch extending along the sides and front of the cranium) are accurately separated from the skull piece, and act as light pipes, using principles similar to modern optics, to channel light from the base of the skull to the eye sockets.


The eye sockets in turn are miniature concave lenses that also transfer light from a source below, into the upper cranium. Finally, in the interior of the skull is a ribbon prism and tiny light tunnels, by which objects held beneath the skull are magnified and brightened.

Observers have reported that, for unknown reasons, the skull will change color. Sometimes the frontal cranium clouds up, looking like white cotton, while at other times it turns perfectly clear, as if the space within disappears into an empty void. Over a period from 5 to 6 minutes, a dark spot often begins forming on the right side and slowly blackens the entire skull, then recedes and disappears as mysteriously as it came.

When looking at the sum total of skill and knowledge incorporated in the Mitchell-Hedges skull, modern science is stumped as to how to explain it. Author Garvin summarized the findings in these words: ‘It is virtually impossible today — in the time when men have climbed mountains on the moon — to duplicate this achievement”.

Further examples of primitively sculpted skulls are a couple called the Mayan Crystal Skull and the Amethyst Skull. They were discovered in the early 1900s in Guatemala and Mexico, respectively, and were said to be brought to the U.S. by a Mayan priest. The Amethyst Skull is made of purple quartz and the Mayan skull is clear, but the two are otherwise very alike. Like the Mitchell-Hedges skull, both of them were studied at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, and they too were found to be inexplicably cut against the axis of the crystal.

Regardless of any unearthly properties, the questions remain: where did they come from, how are they made, who made them and why? There are countless hypotheses that they are the legacy of some higher intelligence. Many believe they were created by extraterrestrials or beings in Atlantis or Lemuria.

The most obvious answer to the mystery is that native artisans crafted the skulls themselves. The Mayans are most often associated with them, although most scientists doubt that they could have made the skulls, simply because of the technical conundrum the job poses. To all who have studied them, the crystal skulls truly, as is often said, “Remain a mystery surrounded by a riddle and wrapped in an enigma”.

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The Mexican Congress has debated several hot topics this year. One of those issues is the whereabouts of the lost island of Bermejo. Mexican lawmakers have been seeking this island, but nobody can find it.

So why does this make a difference? It has to do with oil. The U.S. and Mexico are negotiating a new agreement on oil drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico. If Bermejo Island actually exists, that would push Mexico’s territorial waters out farther, giving the country more of the western “Doughnut Hole,” a part of the Gulf believed to contain huge oil reserves.

Bermejo is said to be a low lying island located at 22.3 degrees north latitude and 91.22 degrees west longitude. That is about 100 miles northwest of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

The island has been mentioned in the nautical literature since the 1500s and has appeared on various nautical charts throughout the intervening centuries. It was Spanish territory, and then inherited by Mexico upon its’ independence.

In 1997, a Mexican navy expedition looked for, but did not find, Bermejo. Interest in both houses of the Mexican Congress has been expressed, especially with the bilateral agreement with the United States looming.

There are several explanations afoot to explain the island’s disappearance. One is that Bermejo was sunk by a seaquake or some kind of tectonic shift in the ocean floor. Then there’s the Al Gore explanation – it was sunk by global warming. A conspiracy theory advanced by others is that the island was intentionally blown up by the CIA, so the United States could drill more oil.

Another explanation is that the island simply never existed, that somebody mistook something else for an island back in the 1500s, and the maps just kept copying and recopying Bermejo Island through the centuries. That’s called a “phantom island” and it’s happened before.

The official version of the Mexican government is that the island sunk naturally due to climactic and tectonic factors. Naturally, this provides grist to the mill of the CIA conspiracy theory, that the Mexican government is in cahoots with the U.S. government.

Some in Mexico’s Congress (from both the right and the left) have called Mexican President Calderon to account for the lost island. One statement from certain senators implied that the island had been deliberately sunk: “a force of nature (able to sink an island) does not take place without anyone noticing and much less so when it is sitting in an area with more than 22 billion barrels of oil reserves.”

British maps, interestingly enough, have reported the sinking of the island since way back in 1844.

In 2009, at the behest of the Maritime Committee in the Mexican House of Representatives, an extensive search for the island was carried out by the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).This expedition went to Bermejo’s supposed location, and searched by sea and air. Over 10,488 square kilometers were searched. Under the sea, soundings went down 1500 feet. The result – nothing. They just didn’t find Bermejo Island where it was supposed to be located.

Some mysterious things have been happening in the Gulf of Mexico: missing ships, missing planes and now a missing island. Could it be that Mexico has its own Bermuda Triangle?

Jorge Bautista