Case file · High strangeness
The 'Bosnian pyramids' of Visoko
In October 2005 the Houston businessman Semir Osmanagić claimed that Visočica hill near Visoko and neighbouring hills were the largest pyramids in the world, built by a lost civilisation.
2005 CE · 43.98, 18.18 · status: hoax
The account
He named them the Pyramids of the Sun, Moon and Dragon, started excavations and tunnels, and drew hundreds of thousands of tourists and political support. Supporters also claim 'energy beams' and healing chambers in the tunnels.
The sceptical view
In 2006 the European Association of Archaeologists called the project 'a cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public'. Geologists from Tuzla found Visočica to be a natural formation of layered sediments, and Robert Schoch judged the 'blocks' to be natural conglomerate plates.