Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mysteries: Massive Crop Circle

Crop Circles are in no way a new phenomenon. There have been reports of crop circles in every country possessing farmland for many decades. The first documented report of crop circles was made in 1880 as a piece in the magazine Nature and then reprinted in 2000. It was written by an amateur meteorologist named John Rand Capron. He was quoted to have said: “The storms about this part of Western Surrey have been lately local and violent, and the effects produced in some instances curious. Visiting a neighbour’s farm on Wednesday evening (21st), we found a field of standing wheat considerably knocked about, not as an entirety, but in patches forming, as viewed from a distance, circular spots….I could not trace locally any circumstances accounting for the peculiar forms of the patches in the field, nor indicating whether it was wind or rain, or both combined, which had caused them, beyond the general evidence everywhere of heavy rainfall. They were suggestive to me of some cyclonic wind action.“

In 1966, a rash of crop circles broke out in cornfields across the farms across England. They often found several having been done in separate cornfield in one night. Years later, the creator of the “Tully Saucier Nests” came forward and confessed it had been he who was responsible. In 1981, two men were inspired by the original crop circle hoax decided that they would follow in the footsteps of their predecessor and created many crop circles within a few weeks. When they didn’t receive much publicity due in part because scientists decided that the plain, single circles could be explained naturally, the pair decided to create even more complicated patterns.

Nowadays, there are actually crop circle artists; people hired to created unique patterns in their crops. Even still, there are still crop circles occurring in America, Europe, and parts of Asia that have not been claimed and are still a mystery.

Despite all of this, however, there are crop circles that appear overnight that could not possibly have been done in one night with only a handful of people. Ones that are so big, so intricate, so… odd, that they cannot be attributed to hoaxers working in the dark. The most auspicious of which is the biggest crop circle yet.

Is there a such thing as an “authentic” crop circle? Are all of them hoaxes? If that’s true, why don’t they come forward and try to profit from it. Money is usually a great motivator. If they aren’t all hoaxes, what’s causing them?

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