Coral Castle - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

There are numerous references to the Coral Castle in culture, they include:

• Billy Idol wrote and recorded the song "Sweet Sixteen" and filmed the video in the Coral Castle. The song was inspired by the story of Leedskalnin's former love, Agnes Scuffs, who purportedly was the main reason Leedskalnin built the structure.
• Scott Mitchell Putesky, former guitarist for Marilyn Manson (as Daisy Berkowitz), named his first solo project Three Ton Gate as a tribute to the massive coral gate at the park's entrance.
• Contemporary Christian artist Andrew Peterson recorded a song entitled "The Coral Castle" as an unrequited love song from the point of view of Edward. It can be found on his album "Carried Along".
• The New York-based band Piñataland wrote a song about Leedskalnin and the Coral Castle, called "Latvian Bride".
• The Wild Women of Wongo used the Coral Castle for their dragon-god temple in the eponymous 1958 film.
• The 1961 Doris Wishman film Nude on the Moon used the Coral Castle as the "moon" scene for the moon people's home.
• Cuban-American author Daína Chaviano has dedicated a whole chapter to Coral Castle in her novel The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead Books/Penguin Group, 2008).
• Coral Castle was the subject of an episode of Leonard Nimoy's program In Search of.... The episode, "The Castle of Secrets (a.k.a. Coral Castle)" was episode 16 of season 5; it included a re-enactment of Leedskalnin magically moving the stones.