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ST. BERNARD PARISH, La. \u2014 An amateur archeologist says he\u2019s discovered the ruins of an ancient civilization off the coast of St. Bernard Parish.

He claims there are large underwater granite mounds near the Chandeleur Islands that may have once been the site of the lost city.

The Chandeleur Islands are a chain of uninhabited barrier islands located in the Gulf of Mexico, 50 miles east of New Orleans.
Twelve thousand years ago, before a dramatic sea-level rise at the end of the last Ice Age, this area may have been dry land.

Retired architect George Gel\xe9 believes the site, now underwater was once a major city, predating the Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations in Mexico and in Central and South America. He dubbed the city \u201cCrecsentis.\u201d

\u201cWhat\u2019s down there are hundreds of buildings that are covered with sand and silt and that are geographically related to the Great Pyramid at Giza,\u201d Gel\xe9 said.

Giza is a city in northern Egypt where ancient pyramids and the Sphinx are located.

Gel\xe9 claims to have found mysterious granite masses under Chandeleur Sound.

Granite is not native to Louisiana or Mississippi.

\u201cSomebody floated a billion stones down the Mississippi River and assembled them outside what would later become New Orleans,\u201d Gel\xe9 said.

Gel\xe9 has spent nearly 50 years studying the site.

He produced underwater sonar images of what he claims are remnants of major buildings, including a large pyramid.

\u201cWhich produces an electromagnetic energy that\u2019s incredible,\u201d Gel\xe9 said. \u201cIt is apparently 280 feet tall.\u201d

St. Bernard Parish shrimper Ricky Robin says he\u2019s experienced the energy firsthand. He claims the compass on his boat spun completely around near the area where Gel\xe9 pinpointed the tip of the pyramid and that\u2019s not all.

\u201cEverything will go out on your boat, all your electronics,\u201d Robin said. \u201cLike as if you were in the Bermuda Triangle. That\u2019s exactly what we got here.\u201d

Robin took Gel\xe9 on four excursions to the site.

He said for years local fisherman have talked about catching strange square rocks in their nets near the Chandeleur Islands.

\u201cI thought right away it was pieces of the pyramid because it was right around where that compass spun,\u201d Robin said.

There are other theories about the rocks.

One study by Texas A&M in the late 1980s suggests the masses are from shipwrecks or piles of ballast stones from Spanish or French vessels.

The stones may have been dumped overboard to lighten the weight of ships stuck on sandbars or entering shallower waters enroute to New Orleans.

Gel\xe9 said some of the artifacts collected at the site tell a different story.

"This is architecture,\u201d he said pointing to one of the artifacts. \u201cThis is not ballast. This is the outer surface, and this is a rain gutter.\u201d

People who believe in the granite mounds claim there is enough evidence that something is out there in the water. But they can\u2019t explain how it got built, by who or why.

\u201cThe older people, we\u2019ve seen a lot of things,\u201d Robin said. \u201cThere\u2019s a possibility it could be God knows what.\u201d

\u201cAll I know is somebody built a city 12,000 years ago and it\u2019s stuck out in Chandeleur,\u201d Gel\xe9 said. \u201cWhether or not they had someone on their shoulder who flew in with a UFO, I don\u2019t know. All I know is they left a whole lot of granite rocks out there.\u201d

Gel\xe9 has visited the site 44 times.

He hopes future dives, modern sonar technology and satellite imaging will help him unlock some of the secrets now trapped below 300 feet of silt, sand, and water off the coast of St. Bernard Parish.

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