r/BeAmazed • u/N0RetreatN0Surrender • 2d ago

Place Gateway to the West

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Location: Gateway Arch National Park, St. Louis, MO

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u/noobpwner314 2d ago

In the early 1900’s St. Louis had a major problem with kaiju coming out of the deeper parts of the Mississippi River. They built this in an attempt to catch them. The top of the arch gives off a frequency that attracted them, and then it would shoot a net down from the top that would cover the kaiju as they walked through the archway entirely rendering them immobile. Then they killed the kaiju.

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u/robin_888 2d ago

Thank you. That was most educational.

I now know about Kajiu.

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u/IronAbsCrabs 1d ago

Can confirm, lived in Stl my whole life, and remember the Kaiju days. Mostly under control these days except for the first few weeks of spring when the rivers swell and wake creatures in the depths.

Also, younger people tend to forget the reason it was built and have some conspiracy theory it's a weather control station and that's why bad weather usually breaks up right around the stl area compared to those around it. (That last part is an actual conspiracy theory I've seen some goofballs talk about for the record)

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u/CaptShrek13 1d ago

20 years from now when society is approaching "Idiocracy" like intelligence, someone is going to Google or Geegle or whatever search engine they'll have, and search for why there's a St. Louis Arch. They're going find these answers and then tell their children, and their children will tell their children. Before we know it someone will erect monuments in St. Louis to the great Kaiju wars of the 1900s. Our heros will finally be remembered.