""In 1959, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William R. Royal uncovered traces of prehistoric people while diving at Warm Mineral Springs, an hourglass-shaped sinkhole formed when an earthquake collapsed a subsurface cave around 20,000 years ago. The spring's main claim to fame is its association with Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León, who supposedly identified it as the Fountain of Youth in 1513.""
He found it in 1959 as a retiree and here is a 2019 photo of him, you tell me.
10 posted on 04/01/2023 10:37:34 AM PDT by ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
I remember being intrigued with Ponce de Leon and the fabled “Fountain of Youth” when I was in fifth grade. I’m even more fascinated having made it to 71.
12 posted on 04/01/2023 10:47:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
(I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone els)