Joined: Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:30 am Posts: 16 Location: The Center of Hell About Me: I'm your usual dude. I love to play the guitar, I have alot to learn, I love my wife and kids with a passion and would proudly go to my grave for them. I don't drink much anymore, I quit toking years ago, but I still know how to enjoy life and have fun. My wife is my drug, I'm addicted and can't get enough. I revolve my life around her, if I'm not at work, you will find me with her and the kids off on one of our adventures. We love the paranormal and spend a large amount of time researching it. That is about all I can say about me. Favorite Quotes: "When darkness falls, I come alive, fear me, for I am the Phantom of Darkness"
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Actually babe, the "statues" on Easter Island are native to the land. They are called Moai. I can't remember for sure on some of this but they claim the statues date back to 1500 CE give or take a few hundred years. The Moai were actually carved out of volcanic ash from around the three volcano's that make up Easter Island. This ash rock is often referred to as "Tuff" I believe. They say there was actually around 900 statues made, but only about 50 or so made it to the stone platforms on the coastal plains. Many of them have been restored, but there are still many burried up to their necks from the soil building up around them over the year's. Easter Island is an intriguing little piece of history that definately merrits more time from me on research. I do know that there are also many complete whole houses carved from stone on the island too. I can't remember for sure but I think the native people learned the art of stone carving from another civilization that came to the islands and tried to inslave the islanders. To think that people could actually make it to the island back around 500-800 BC and settle there is more intriguing to me than the statues, Easter Island is one of the most isolated inhabited places on earth, it is like almost 3000 miles from mainland South America. Very interesting indeed. I love you babe, just thought I would let you know about the place, I to used to think that the Statues came from somewhere else.
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