Unexplained Mysteries of The World
#1
Crop Circles
The original crop circles were exactly that -
basic circular patterns of flattened crops - often created in
mysterious circumstances overnight. During the last 20 years, crop
circles have evolved into complex geometric shapes, like the DNA double
helix or the nautilus shell. Whatever creates them has become rapidly
more advanced in just a period of a few decades.
The first crop circle was recorded in 1966, when an
Australian sugar cane farmer claimed to see a saucer-shaped spaceship
rise up from a swamp before flying away. When he looked at the landing
site, he said he found the reeds intricately woven in a clockwise
direction on top of the water. Over the years there have been many
other anecdotal accounts of crop circles appearing in alien UFO
literature, where sometimes the crops were burnt, otherwise flattened.
As
unexplained mysteries go, this one has been debunked by numerous
experts, who have provided ample evidence that crop circles are a giant
man-made hoax...
In 1991, two men from Southampton, England,
admitted they had been creating hoax crop circles for 15 years. They
could make intricate patterns using planks, rope, hats and wire - and
could create a 40-foot circle in 15 minutes. The only reason they came
clean was because one of the men was running up considerable mileage on
his car and had to convince his wife he wasn't having an affair. He
still publicly demonstrates the art today.
Further studies have dismissed claims that
alien saucers have been leaving excessive nitrate deposits at crop
circle locations. The trace deposits are explained by the nitrate-based
fertilizers used by farmers to grow their crops.
Other paranormal fans claim that there is a
mysterious energy left behind within crop circles and people go there to
mentally make contact with an extra-terrestrial energy. What could
possibly create such a widespread psychological effect?
Science refers to this as The Placebo Effect -
where the mind can produce powerful effects on the body simply because
the person expects it to. Indeed, the mind is so powerful (and science fully accepts this) that it can sometimes heal the body just as well as medicine when that medicine is replaced by a sugar pill.
