First I have to tell you a bit about a unique person and his tower, as this is how I came across the existence of the many millions years old village.
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In Eben-Emael (province of Henegouwen, Belgium), there is a strange tower built by a Robert Garcet. I visited it twice, and it is a truly enigmatic building. Robert Garcet built the tower all by himself in the early 1950's. It took him 15 years to finish it (1948-1963). He died in 2001 at the age of 89. The building consists of flint. Flint is common in the area, and has been mined since the 1930's. |
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Robert Garcet was not exactly an ordinary person. He was an artist and it shows in every single aspect of the tower he built. He was a builder, a sculptor, a stone cutter, a painter, a writer. The tower serves as a flint museum. It displays archeological, paleontological, and geological interests of Garcet, whose findings and ideas were not accepted by conventional scientists of his time. Garcet was strongly biblical, which also included spiritual numerology. |
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 five levels above ground, two levels underground |
The tower has seven levels, each consisting of a square of 12 meters on each side, held up by four towers. Each measurement in the tower is symbolic. In its totality the tower represents mankind, as in the Revelation of the Heavenly Jerusalem. |
 
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On top of the top are four stone sculptures of the four Evangelists (symbolized as the Four Biblical animals). His Apocalyptic vision really shows in the Room of the Cherubims, a room full of symbols and meaning. |
| At the top of the tower, next to me is magic square of 5 (sum of the numbers in every directions totals up to 666). |
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Most interesting is that the tower has two lower levels and sits on top of an entrance of a labyrinth of ancient underground passages. In this labyrinth are many fossils, prehistoric tools, and rare geological formations. Garcet claims that he had discovered two hundred new organisms, which he studied and drew pictures of. Mostly small insects and crustaceans, he also has a partial skeleton of a saurier. |
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But most interesting is the underground labyrinth. Throughout many years he has explored many passages which have no end. It is know in the area that there are underground tunnels leading into Holland and Germany. Unfortunately I was not able to have a look in the lower levels, as at the time of my visit, vandals had broken into the tower and caused damage in the lower levels. |
 Entrance to the tunnels, part of his museum and displays. |
 Mergel stone quarry from the last centuries, now a tourist attraction, in Sint-Pietersberg, just over the border with Holland. |
The region is known to have many stone quarries, like the Mergel stone quarry you see here. Some of them are real labyrinths themselves. These quarries are fairly recent (from the past centuries), but there are older flint quarries and tunnels from times unknown. |
Some distance from where his tower is, following the underground tunnels, he found an underground village. This village, he claims, was once cut into the rocks, but was exposed to the open air. On top of the village are now three layers of ocean deposits, showing that Belgium has been covered three times by the ocean. This means that the village existed some 70 million years ago. In archeology this is unheard of. Moreover, he says that all the walls, and stone benches had been cut into flint rock, and that all surfaces in these houses are smooth. This is a second anomaly, as flint cannot be worked, it chips, and stays rough. He invited the Belgium archeologists to come and have a look for themselves, but none of them showed up. Unfortunately, in the late sixties, a nearby flint mine bought up the land above it, and blew the whole area to bits. A real heart breaker for Garcet.
I have seen the video he made of this underground village in the early sixties. Partly because of the primitive equipment, and partly because of the poor lighting he had, the video was not that clear and detailed, but it was definitely there. He also had made a scale model, showing a principal street with small side streets, and the different buildings. He also found some stone toys. They roughly resembled dolls, made from rounded flat stones with engravings. It is very primitive, and could be mistaken for something else, but what do we know of people who lived eighty million years ago? I can understand why archeologists would dismiss the entire affair, as nothing fits their ideas of ancient (that is a couple of thousand years ago) people.
A small comment here on the smooth flint walls. Garcet had no knowledge of this, as in his time nobody had written about smooth rock walls. I the past years, when surfing the internet, I have come across several stories of people who, by accident, stumbled upon underground tunnels and rooms of which the walls were very smooth and glassy. The people who made those tunnels had the ability to melt stone into a glassy substance, which is both smooth and strong.
copyright by Dirk Gillabel
