10 myths of Saaremaa

Dry-stone walls

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The dry-stone walls in Saaremaa have been found mysterious by many historians and archaeologists. The latest knowledge is that the oldest walls go back as far as several hundreds of years before the first human set their foot to this island. It has remained a mystery as who built those walls. An archaeologist and historian Maie Remmel proposes that the ancient walls were built by creatures from other planets, whose direct descendants the islanders are. She claims that by building new walls the islanders are trying to send messages to the space to their ancestors. Those who think that those long walls are constructed like specific words and sentences are to be disappointed. The figures of the walls must first be decoded, which in these days of reasonably priced drones is a relatively easy task. Obviously, it is not difficult to read and decode the figures from above. Based on the first recordings, the most popular messages sent to the space have been ‘PRIVATE PROPERTY’, ‘NO LITTERING’ and ‘YOLO’.

Three popular beliefs

If you tear down a dry-stone wall, it will be restored as it was by the next morning.

One who sits on the wall with a bare butt in the early spring, will definitely come down with a cystitis.

Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to build a dry-stone wall.

Scientist in her moment of rest