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The Bunyip’s neighbour: the Moai and Rapa Nui

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

Nearly nine hundred stone giants stand on a speck of volcanic rock 3,500 kilometres from anywhere, carved by the Rapa Nui between roughly 1250 and 1500 and moved kilometres from the Rano Raraku quarry, where dozens remain half-cut in the rock face. Experiments have shown teams can “walk” a moai upright with ropes, matching the islanders’ own account that the statues walked. A Chilean UNESCO World Heritage site.

The ground it haunts

Rapa Nui / Easter Island (Chile). Source: Real giants that the islanders always said “walked” - and experiments show they can. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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