Back to the Future: the Sanzhi UFO Houses in Taiwan

Travelversed Editors | February 15, 2017

The Bare-Bones Truth

Were thousands of skeletons really dug up sometime between 1978 and 1980? The government isn’t telling, but the Netherlands did claim Taiwan as a colony after 1624, calling it Dutch Formosa. The Dutch East India Company established a settlement called Fort Zeelandia and proceeded to implement a number of punitive measures against the natives: extortion, restrictive land policies, and a “head” tax, which was basically taxation for the right to exist.

The natives weren’t happy, and the inevitable result was the Siege of Fort Zeelandia, which lasted a year (1661-62) and essentially broke the hold the Netherlands had over the country. Hundreds of Dutch soldiers and civilians were massacred and buried exactly where the pod village would be erected three hundred years later.

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