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Easter Island is so isolated that the early settlers must have been marooned there, and lacking wood.for boat-building, remained out of touch with the rest of the world for centuries, while they developed their own peculiar culture. They did have a complicated religion, and it is possible that the statues were some part of it. The red hats could have some meaning, for even the American Indians have legends and prophecies about gods in red hats. But there are also intriguing legends of red-haired beings in such distant and isolated places as Borneo, and the ancient gods of Europe and Asia were often described as having red or blond hair. Modern UFO contactees claim that the space people who ride around in flying saucers have long red or blond hair, too. So it is not surprising that some cultists speculate that members from WOW may have visited | Easter Island and that the ahu statues are tributes to them, each statue symbolizing one - -£---4 Scores of giant red-haired mummies have been found in a cave twenty-two miles from Lovelock, Nevada, in the Ust sixty years. The first ones, discovered in 1912, were between 6.5 and 7 feet tall. Artifacts found in the same cave have been dated by carbon 14 tests. Apparently, the cave had been occupied as far back as five thousand years. The local Piute Indians have legends about these giants, describing them as being cannibalistic. In her book, Life Among the Piutes (1882), Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins wrote that the last of the red-haired giants were exterminated by the Piutes in the nineteenth century. They would dig large holes in our trails at night,* Mrs Hopkins reported. 'Our people would fall into these holes... That tribe would even eat their own dead. Yes, they would even come and dig up our dead after they were buried and would carry them off and eat them.* vampires. Some authors have speculated that the red-haired giants invaded Easter Island from South America, and the cannibalistic rites of the Easter Islanders were inherited from them. There is now an American military base on Easter Island, and recently the workmen and heavy equipment constructing an airfield were diverted to raise one of the flattened statues. It took a heavy crane to do the job that was once done by hundreds of dedicated natives engaged in another of early man's impressive but pointless enterprises. Easter Island has been a favourite of National Geographic for years, and the cultists have had a field day inventing explanations for the mystery. But there are many other Pacific islands even more remote and very rarely visited which pose far more baffling questions. The city of Metalanim on the south-eastern shore of Ponape Island in Micronesia is now in ruins, but it once could have housed two million people. No one knows who built it or when. Some of the stone blocks in those ruins weigh fifteen tons, and the stone nsed in the city is not from the island. Gigantic waterways or canals intersect the city, some of them large enough to float a battleship. Who built this enormous place, and how did they move those huge stone blocks across the Pacific to the island? Whatever happened to the two million residents? Three thousand miles to the south-east of Fonape Island, on tiny Maiden Island in the line Island chain there are the ruins of forty Stone temples whose architecture is identical to that of Metalanim, Basalt roads lead from these ruins straight into the Pacific Ocean. The island is uninhabited and covered with guano (bird droppings). But if we draw an imaginary line appearance of a god. Atlantis lore also describes giant red-haired cannibals who behaved almost like traditional