Ed also published a few books in his lifetime, among them A Book in Every Home. It describes his “Sweet Sixteen,” and doesn’t refer to Agnes, but to some sort of omniscient “girl.” All the book's words, oddly, are printed only on the left-hand pages. The right pages are blank.

Now, I will tell you why I did not get the girl...Now, I am going to tell you what I mean when I say "Ed's Sweet Sixteen.” I don't mean a sixteen-year-old girl. I mean a brand new one … Anything that we do leaves its effect, but it leaves more effect upon a girl than it does upon a boy or a man, because the girl's body, mind, and all her constitution is more tender and so it leaves more impressions … All girls below sixteen should be brand new.

After espousing his views of the virtue of virginity among young women, he also addresses their “neglects and defects,” namely the error of gummy smiles: “When smiling, the teeth only should be shown. As soon as you show the gums, it spoils the good effect.” Got it, Ed. But, as speculation would have it, this is not the misogynistic, abusive ramblings of a chauvinistic monster — it’s just a code disguised as such. Indeed, Ed prefaces his book:

Reader, if for any reason you do not like the things I say in this little book, I left just as much space as I used, so you can write your own opinion opposite it and see if you can do better.

~ The Author

Blogger Rich Hoffman believes Ed “writes on the left side of the book, leaving the right side for a future decoder of his cryptic work to decipher his numerous mathematical puzzles.” Hoffmann's site tries to decode it: A Book in Every Home is written not from “the perspective of a human but from the perspective of a magnet. … Female magnets are ‘sweet’ when they are sixteen years old. … He also warns that if a ‘female’ magnet is allowed to be in the same room as a ‘male’ magnet, the ‘male’ magnet will ‘soil’ the ‘girl.’” It’s a stretch, or maybe it isn’t. “Sweet Sixteen,” by this logic, is a magnetic charge, not a child’s age, and Agnes seems like fiction. Why Ed would want to turn his methods into creepy, vaguely pedophilic code is not clear.

In the episode of Ancient Aliens detailing Coral Castle, McClure makes an appearance and simplifies the pedagogy of another of Ed’s books, Magnetic Current: “Ed says … that real gravity is a magnet. If you reverse the magnetic forces with the force of some kind of electromagnetic radio frequency, you can make these rocks not as heavy as they seem.” We’re shown an image of Ed’s tripod; zoomed in, there’s a black box at its top. “The black box is the one element no one has ever seen, except in those pictures. We believe it has something to do with how he got these massive, heavy, brittle pieces of rock up in the air.” A man named John Brandenburg, classified only as “Engineer,” corroborates: “We can speculate at this time that there are techniques for using electromagnetism to nullify gravity.” (I imagine someone prodding him beforehand: “Say it! Say that it’s possible!”) In the sleeping quarters at Coral Castle, you’ll find a generator, which Ed describes in his texts as a “perpetual motion holder” for “making all kinds of light.” Could light mean energy?