Overview
- The claims, resurfaced Wednesday by the Daily Star, the New York Post, and the Daily Beast, stem from a 2022 WWL-TV interview and remain outside peer-reviewed science.
- George Gelé says decades of sonar work mapped hundreds of structures near the Chandeleur Islands about 50 miles east of New Orleans at roughly 30 feet down under another 100 feet of silt.
- He describes a 280-foot pyramid on the seabed that he says emits energy that makes boat compasses spin and knocks out electronics, a pattern a local shrimper also reports.
- As physical clues, he cites underwater mounds of granite, a rock not native to Louisiana, and claims the stones were floated down the Mississippi River before placement.
- Academic voices counter that the stones likely came from dumped ship ballast or a 1940s artificial-reef effort, pointing to a Texas A&M analysis and a 2011 assessment by archaeologist Rob Mann.