Dear Sherlock Holmes – There’s A New Game Afoot in North America – Geocaching with a Haunted Twist!

What do you get when you combine a GPS receiver and online coordinates with a bit of treasure hunting and camping, hiking, walking, trekking, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing activities? A new sport, founded in 2000, dear fellow – as thrilling and adrenaline-racing as any one of Sherlock Holmes unsolved mysteries. Only the whereabouts of arch-nemesis, James Moriarty, has been replaced with a hidden waterproof container that conceals a logbook, code name, pencil, stamp, and perhaps a token coin and dog tag. Indeed this detective-like game of “Geek and Seek” is an outdoor sporting activity that the whole family can enjoy – not only in state parks and luxurious resorts – but in some of the most haunted places in North America! Let’s look then at some of the spookiest geocaching spots in Canada and the USA.

1-Canada – Newfoundland – City of St. John’s – Gibbet Hill Note: St. John’s is the oldest English-founded City in North America. Gibbet Hill was the “site of the gallows during colonial times – located on a rocky cliff that has a clear view of the entire downtown…so anyone in the old city could see the gallows to deter criminal activity.”

2-Canada – New Brunswick – St. Andrews by-the-Sea The Algonquin Resort Built in 1889, this Tudor-style “Castle-by-the-sea” overlooks the Passamaquody Bay and has welcomed famous leaders, royalty, and upper class families from around the world. ”It is also a haven for the afterlife. On many occasions guests report seeing a brokenhearted bride, walking the halls of the second floor. It is not uncommon for guests to have their luggage delivered to their room only to see the young bell boy vanish into thin air.”

3- Canada – Nova Scotia – Cape Breton Island – Fortress Louisburg Constructed around a fishing port between 1720 and 1740, the Fortress of Louisburg was one of France’s key centers of trade and military strength in the New World – being the third busiest harbor behind Boston, MA and Philadelphia, PA. The fort was also built to protect France’s control on one of the richest fishing grounds in the world – the Grand Banks. Today the Fortress of Louisburg is known to house four ghosts. “One is a sea captain who is very helpful indeed. He warns people of impending danger, greets guests, and sometimes just walks by just to disappear. A nurse is said to also roam the grounds. She is said to weep. There is also a poltergeist located in this place. He is said to be violent, moves three hundred pound equipment, and damages property. He is said to haunt the King Bastion Bakery. The last known ghost on the fortress is a child screaming for his mother. Along with his screams comes the sound of cannon and gun fire with screams of a group of men.”

4-USA – Michigan – Mackinac Island Located in Lake Huron, Mackinac Island is a resort area that was formerly a giant Indian burial ground. Today there are about 100 caches hidden all over the island. Every spring there is a large gathering of folks who geocache at “The Grand Hotel”. Ghosts are most notable at nearby Fort Mackinac built in 1779. “The children of the post commander are supposed to haunt the officer’s hill quarters. The hospitals in the fort are undoubtedly haunted and are surrounded by an air of sickness to this day. A skeleton was found in the “Black Hole” of the guardhouse and now people get the usual chills along their spines in the reconstructed guardhouse. There is supposedly a phantom piper that walks on the stonework above the North Sally Port. He is only sighted on misty mornings and his music can be heard faintly.”

5-USA – Pennsylvania – Philadelphia – Fairmount Park – Laurel Hill Cemetery The Fairmount Park is the largest landscaped park in the USA occupying 10 percent of all the land in Philadelphia. Ten active geocaches are hidden throughout its 4,180 acre park system. One of them is concealed in the Laurel Hill Cemetery which features graves dating back to the 1830’s including Thomas McKean, signer of the Declaration of Independence and David Rittenhouse, a renowned 18th century American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official. Note: Laurel Hill Cemetery has the distinction of being one of the few cemeteries in America designated as a National Historic Landmark.

6-USA – Colorado – Saint Elmo – Historic Ghost Town Built in 1878 in a heavily forested area, Saint Elmo is the best preserved ghost town in Colorado with far more ghosts than its actual 8 year-round residents. All of the 24 original buildings are privately owned and a few are occupied by active businesses. The General Store now operates between May to October. This is a far cry from its heydays in the 1890’s when this small mining town had 2000 year-round residents and a telegraph office, a town hall, five hotels, saloons, dancing halls, a newspaper office and a school house. It was a time when the discovery of gold and silver brought miners from far and wide to the area with the help of the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad which ran through the town. Once, however, the last mine shut down in 1922, the business district in St. Elmo was closed down as well. But the pioneering Stark family in particular tried to keep the town alive. Today, it is the ghost of Annabelle Stark who watches over the town. Her mother, Anna, ran the general store and a small hotel that served the railroad. Visitors report that the doors to this hotel shut on their own and several have noticed a young woman in one of the windows along the second floor of the hotel. And located just before the entrance to the town is the Saint Elmo cache – hidden in a pocket of boulders and upgraded to a large container and new logbook due to its immense popularity.

7-USA – West Virginia – All of West Virginia – A State-Wide Geocaching & Ghost Hunting Treasure Trove There are so many haunted places to consider when hunting for caches in West Virginia – places made famous by its phantom creatures such as the “Flatwoods Monster” (aka the Braxton County Monster) and the “Mothman” in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. But here are five lesser known favorites :

a) Cole Mountain near Moorefield, West Virginia – An offshoot of the Appalachian mountain range, orange and red lights have been seen on the slopes of Cole Mountain ever since the 1850’s.  The strange lights are believed by local folk to be that of a ghostly lantern of a young slave looking for his master, Charles Jones, who had disappeared one year before whilst coon-hunting.

b) Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, West Virginia – Located in the Greenbrier River Valley, this site marks West Virginia’s bloodiest Civil War battle – said to be haunted by soldiers and old souls who never left the battlefield in 1863. “Among these ghostly inhabitants are a poltergeist who supposedly throws rocks at you, a headless ghost that seems to have ties to a certain local family, and an entire phantom cavalry that emits horse, buggy, and firing sounds that can be heard all over the wooded area. There are even reports of a ghostly gray horse with bright yellow eyes.”

c) Flinderation Tunnel near Salem, West Virginia – Completed in 1857, this old railroad tunnel is a popular place for ghost hunters and multi-stage geocaches because of the strange apparitions, noises, and EVP’s that have been reported over the years. According to local folklore, repairs were being made on the tunnel in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s when a high speed locomotive unexpectedly came through killing two of the three workers working on the track – one of whom was trapped under the train causing it to derail. Later on, it is said, the tunnel was used by the KKK as a lynching spot. Soon after the railroad was officially shut down and the tracks torn up in the 1990’s because of its paranormal activities that continue even to this day – phantom train whistles, phantom mists, mysterious footsteps, orbs, sobbing, screaming, train wheels screeching, metal scraping on metal, and the lights of an invisible ghost train coming thru the tunnel.

d) Lake Shawnee Amusement Park in Princeton, West Virginia – First opened in 1926, Lake Shawnee is a closed amusement park that last operated in the 1970’s. Some of the abandoned rides still standing include a small roller coaster, bumper boats, paddle boats, rotating swings, and a Ferris wheel. It is now private property but the owner gives private paranormal tours year-round. Around 1783, this site was also the terrifying scene of a bloody Indian massacre in which Native Americans scalped two Clay family children and a third burned at the stake. To this day, Native American chanting and the voices of children can be heard on summer nights. Eerie sightings include the apparition of a young girl, silhouettes on the Ferris Wheel, and long forgotten carnival rides moving on their own.

d) Wine Cellar Park in Dunbar, West Virginia –
Before the Civil War, many areas in West Virginia tried their hand at the wine-making business. But by 1870, nearly all of the wine companies in West Virginia were gone. The three restored walk-in wine cellars at Dunbar were originally built to store local wine made on the premises. “After wine production stopped, it is rumored that the cellars were used as a stop on the Underground Railroad and today, all that is left are three of the rumored six stone cellars. But, something (or someone?) else remained. Witnesses have said that the Wine Cellar Park is haunted and misty figures and abnormalities commonly show up on film and pictures taken of the cellars.”

8-USA – New Mexico – Santa Fe Established in 1607 and built on an abandoned Tanoan Indian village, Santa Fe is the second oldest city in America founded by European colonists – second only to St. Augustine in Florida. And it is home to about 70 caches and many “ghost tour walks”. It’s ghostly legends cover a ten block historic area which includes a Headless Cowboy, the “Crying Witch of the Ditch”, and the Poker-Playing Ghost who threw himself down a well for losing the company money!

So Sherlock Holmes and the Sherlock Holmes’s of the World – Your Next GPS Coordinate is N 47degrees 36.371 W 122degrees 17.303– Happy Hunting!

Disturbing Myths or Real Eco-Phenomena? Alien Eco-Terrorists or Science-Seeking Balderdash? Like UFO’s, How Well Do You Know Your Space Alien Encounters? (Part II)

In Part I, I tested your knowledge of “eco-terrestrial” monster movie trivia over the last 60 years.  But now I am going to test your knowledge of “eco-celestial” phenomena that has appeared over thousands of years the world over – in records from ancient China to ancient Egypt – in paleolithic petroglyphs from Val Camonica in Italy to Wondjina rock art in Australia – and in sightings from WWII Europe to the 1970’s in the western states of the USA.  Let’s see then how well you know your space alien encounters.

1-You most likely have heard of China’s “Terracotta Army”, a collection of life-sized terracotta sculptures buried with the First Emperor of China around 210 BC — but have you ever heard of the “Chinese-Alien Wars” that occurred in the 30th century BC – recorded on ancient parchments of rice paper and silk? After this extraterrestrial army arrived, they enslaved the native Chinese to build what structures in order to suck some mysterious element from deep within the earth?

2-Provocative archaeological discoveries have recently been made in Guatemala and Mexico surrounding the ancient-but-advanced Mayan civilization. Surrounded by jungles, one explanation being proposed is that the Mayan people were in contact with extraterrestrials using the flat tops of their pyramids as ___ ___ for alien spacecraft. Very clever indeed, if proven to be true.

3-Discovered in 1927 and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994, what is the name given for a series of geoglyphs and geometric line clearings found in Peru that depicts animals, plants, and humans in stylized forms? One theory is that this high, arid 53 mile stretch of plateau was also an alien airfield.

4-Are the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt repositories of alien technology? Ancient Egyptian pyramid texts describe a “time” when “sky gods” came down to Earth on flying boats, raised the land from mud and water, and brought laws and wisdom to the royal line of pharaohs. What is the name for this legendary time?

5-Was the destruction of the Indus River Valley Civilization around 1500 BC the result of highly advanced extraterrestrial technology? According to the ancient Indian Sanskrit text known as the “Mahabharata”, and the remains found around today’s archaeological sites of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, an explosion of what kind is being given for an explanation for its sudden disappearance?

6-What is the name of the most controversial incident in UFO history whereby an alien spacecraft and its occupants were purported to have crashed in the desert of New Mexico?

7-Witnessed first by British RAF Pilots, and German and Japanese pilots over both the European and Pacific Theater of Operations, what was the name of the mysterious aerial phenomena later coined by an American Night Fighter Squadron during World War II?

8-What dark animal phenomena was witnessed by terrified farmers throughout New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and 10 other western states in the USA during the 1970’s?

Answers: (1) Pyramids (2) Landing Pads/Landing Zones (3) Nazca Lines (4) First Time (5) Nuclear/Atomic Bomb (6) Roswell Incident (7) Foo-Fighters (8) Cattle Mutilations

And The Oscar Goes To ….. How Well Do You Know Your Eco-Monster Movie Trivia? (Part I)

Science fiction movies have come a long way from the 1950’s when “mutant monsters” terrorized the island of Manhattan and Japan and blighted the desert of New Mexico.  Rather today’s big screen monsters tend to be 3-D “space aliens” and “virile vampires” with complex feelings, unorthodox powers, and shrouded origins whose shadowy actions often make us wonder what they are really after…  In contrast, “eco-terrestrial-monsters” are simpler characters to understand – for the most part, they are the meddlesome by-products of toxic human activities, radioactive fallouts, biological contamination (or manipulation) and habitat destruction – – earth-bound monsters whose motivations are at once recognizable – -revenge on all humans!  Other memorable “eco-terrestrial-monsters” are the meddlesome byproducts of legendary gods found in Greek mythology and Scandinavian folklore.  Still others, are the mythical reincarnations of fossilized animals.  Let’s see then how well you know your “eco-monster” movie trivia?

1- What 1954 eco-monster movie classic featured an amphibious-looking half-fish, half-human creature living along the Amazon River?

2- Released three months later in 1954, what is the name of the American eco-monster movie that featured gigantic man-eating irradiated ants?

3- 1954 was a good year indeed!  What Japanese monster movie introduced the world to a pop culture icon known for its mutant lizard appearance and its starring role in a series of 28 sequels?

4- What American-made 1957 science fiction film featured a scientific expedition trapped in the Bikini Atoll of the Pacific Ocean by intelligent, brain-eating monsters that mutated as a result of nuclear testing on the island’s plant and sea life?

5- Filmed near Dallas, Texas, what low-budget 1959 monster film, considered to be a cult classic, featured a gargantuan 70 foot poisonous lizard attacking a train and then a town dance hall packed with teenagers before being blown up by a rigged ‘hot rod’ filled with nitroglycerin?

6- What 1963 fantasy feature film based on a mythical Greek hero and his quest for the Golden Fleece, featured half-human winged monsters on the island of Thrace and a seven-headed serpent whose sown teeth begot an army of skeletons?  What are the names of both of these legendary creatures?

7- What 1965 Japanese monster movie introduced the world to another pop culture icon – a titanic, flying turtle monster with fire-breathing capabilities, a shell strong enough to withstand missiles and other weaponry and a pair of claws and large tusks brought to life after a Soviet plane carrying nuclear bombs crashes into the arctic ice?

8- Set in Arizona, what 1972 American sci-fi horror film featured large fluffy carnivorous killer monsters that mutated as a result of an experimental hormonal serum being injected into one of these small domesticated mammals?

9- What notorious star-studded 1978 disaster film bombed at the box office but not before a killer invasion of African bees spread terror in Texas?

10- Filmed in San Marcos, Texas, what is the name of the other 1978 horror movie which featured a scientifically engineered swarm of flesh-eating monsters that were accidently released from an abandoned military research center from the Vietnam War era and escaped into the riverways feeding a children’s camp and summer resort?

11- Filmed in British Columbia, Canada, what is the name of the 1979 monster movie which featured the calamitous effects of mercury-tainted waste from a local lumber mill company in Maine and the creation of a giant man-eating bear-monster?

12- Set in an isolated ex-mining town in Nevada, what 1990 sci-fi horror comedy film featured worm-like creatures that swim under the desert sands like underground monster sharks finding and grabbing up people based on vibrations?

13- What is the name of the 1993 movie that featured a theme park populated by monster dinosaurs cloned from  DNA extracts of insects preserved in prehistoric amber?

14- What is the name of the pirate movie series and the legendary sea monster whose leviathan tentacles preyed upon specific ships at the command of Davy Jones, captain of the Flying Dutchman?

15- In what 2001 boy wizard movie does Hagrid, the Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts, give up his baby monster to be taken to a sanctuary in Romania?  What is the name and classification type of this baby monster?

Answers: (1) The Creature from the Black Lagoon (2) Them! (3) Godzilla (4) Attack of the Crab Monsters (5) The Giant Gila Monster (6) Jason and the Argonauts; Harpies; Hydra (7) Gamera (8) Night of the Lepus aka Rabbits (9) The Swarm (10) Piranha (11) Prophecy (12) Tremors (13) Jurassic Park (14)  Pirates of the Caribbean; the “Kraken” (15)  Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; Norbert; Norwegian Ridgeback Dragon

Sailing Out of the Timeless Myths of Hamlet’s Elsinore Castle & Bluetooth’s Roskilde Fjord – Comes Denmark’s Legendary Eco-Designers of Today

It’s a funny thing about ancestral ghosts – Hamlet saw them, my grandmother believed in them, and Hans Christian Andersen made his entry into the world of literature writing about them back in 1822.  And that’s what makes Denmark so special – it is a “Land of Legends” with the oldest continuous monarchy in Europe, spectacular countryside and castles, 5000 miles of clean and sparkling white sandy beaches, and now over 4000 onshore wind turbines making it the world’s most windfarm-intensive country.

And that’s what makes Denmark so richly unique – it is constantly reinventing itself in sustainable ways that are consistent with its legendary maritime heritage, its premium on a close-knit social environment, and its respect for its physical environment – “the land of the Vikings” – many of whom went to France and founded Normandy only to rise later again as English nobility – including my very own ancestor, Prince Bernard of Denmark, Rollo the Viking’s chief counselor in the conquest of Normandy and the progenitor and founder of the “Harcourt” Family in England.

But today, Denmark is now embarking on a new kind of ‘viking raid’ – a globally ‘green invasion’ – and leading the way are the denizens of its very own capital – Copenhagen, nicknamed “Eco-penhagen” – one of the ten most eco-friendly cities in the world.  Over 50% of its hotels are “green”, its central bus system is battery-driven, and with over 300 kilometers of cycling paths, Copenhagen is on target to become the world’s leading ‘bicycle city’ of commuters by 2015.  And if that weren’t enough, topping this year’s #1 San Pellegrino list of best restaurants in the world – for the second time in a row – is “Noma” located in an ‘upcycled’ warehouse in Copenhagen whose philosophy to serve wild and natural food products directly from the soil and sea not only authentically complements the Danish sea and sky-themed atmosphere and terracotta pot filled salads and pebbly-served, starfish-powdered shrimps  – but as Chef Rene Redzepi puts it, (The Founder of the Nordic Cuisine Movement) – each dish is meant “to enrich the soul”.

That ability to link nature to innovation – from eco-cuisine to eco-transport to eco-planning is the hallmark of Danish culture – so much so that leveraging new eco-innovation models of management, economics, and technology is now part of a collaborative effort by the Copenhagen Business School to establish innovation networks worldwide whilst advancing Denmark’s competitive advantage in sustainable business development.  But perhaps nowhere better than in the multidisciplinary area of ‘eco-designing’ are Denmark’s modern-day ‘green vikings’ making the greatest impact worldwide – in the way of car designs, furniture designs, yacht designs, building designs, and urban planning designs.

When it comes to the art of designing eco-friendly luxury cars, perhaps no one can make a more sophisticated, more superbly eco-chic car than Danish-born Henrik Fisker in his new “Fisker Karma” car – a four-door, plug-in hybrid luxury sports car that has a 300-mile range using both electric and gasoline power.  And when it comes to designing environmentally responsible outdoor furniture of international calibre – there is none better than ‘Skagerak Denmark’ whose family’s passion for wood and Denmark’s carpentry traditions over the generations is “anchored in the values of the maritime world”.   As for designing sustainable architecture, the three Danish firms of Deve Architects, Henning Larsen Architects, Christensen & Co. Architects are amongst the world’s best eco-designing visionaries.   Indeed, Deve Architects of Copenhagen has now put a modern-day twist on Prince Hamlet’s Elsinore Castle by designing an urban eco-castle in the formerly industrialized city center of Augustenborg, Denmark whilst Christensen & Co Architects has built a ‘Green Lighthouse’ structure at the University of Copenhagen which is the first carbon neutral building in Denmark.   And Henning Larsen Architects of Copenhagen has designed and completed a unique housing complex of 140 apartments built into the shape of a wave nine stories high with five featured wave crests creating a beautiful connection between Vejle Fjord’s landscape and the town itself.  But perhaps the best example of this Danish eco-philosophy of linking nature to designing can be seen in the “Global Eco-Village Movement”, co-founded by Danish-born Hildur Jackson – the new worldview of linking nature to ‘human settlement designs’  – the creation of planned residential communities based on the holistic concept that human activities must be socially, economically, and ecologically sustainable.

Now looking backwards over the last thousand years of Danish eco-designing, my personal favorite is one that hits closer to home and my immediate family – that of the legendary eco-graphic design left by King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark (b. 935, d.985) – found in the form of a memorial rune stone in the town of Jelling – in memory of his parents, King Gorm the Old and Thyra Danebold.   One stone in particular has a serpent wrapped around a lion and on the other side, a picture of Jesus Christ wrapped in the tree branches of the Old Norse ‘World Tree’ – symbolic of King Bluetooth’s conquest of Denmark and Norway and his conversion of the Danes to Christianity.  Ultimately, his son, King Sweyn Forkbeard, would lead a full-scale Viking assault on England and be crowned King of England on Christmas Day in 1013.  Two of King Bluetooth’s granddaughters would hence marry into Anglo-Saxon nobility.  One of their female descendants in turn would sail to America centuries later to found New England and become the ‘First Poet of America’.  And in turn one of her descendants would become my orphaned grandmother – renamed “Dolly” as a child as she was wont to play with dolls around local cemetery gravestones.  And therein lies the key to my grandmother’s ancestral ghosts and the riddle that she was given – that “she was as old as Olde England itself” – the amazing discovery that her 33^rd great-grandfather was none other than Danish King Harald Bluetooth himself.  Perhaps this is another reason why Denmark is so special – its legends never leave us!

Tsunamis: How An Eco-Phenomenon Has Invaded the American Lexicon and Psyche

Early this morning, whilst news came of gigantic Tsunami waves striking the northeastern coast of Japan from an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and making their way to the islands of Hawaii and the U.S. western coastline – I – sitting comfortably in my home on the U.S. eastern seaboard, now began shuddering at the images of this extreme and unpredictable eco-phenomenon. Automatically, my mood became tense and fearful despite the fact that I was far removed from the oncoming dangerous situation. Indeed, something deep within me triggered a “High-Alert” response. Was it the Tsunami Warnings themselves that were prompting my reaction? Or was it something else entirely?

The Japanese-derived word, “Tsunami” or “Harbor Wave” as defined on the web by ‘TheFreeDictionary’ is a “series of catastrophic ocean waves generated by submarine movements, which may be caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides beneath the ocean, or an asteroid striking the earth.” While there have not been many mega tsunamis recorded in modern times, geological evidence indicates that a tsunami was instrumental in the destruction of the Minoan civilization on Crete in the second millennium B.C. But what of the role tsunamis have had on the American experience – the American imagination?

On the surface, the word “Tsunamis” apply only to cataclysmic environmental phenomenon – but in today’s American vernacular – “Tsunamis” are used to describe a range of topics from ‘Tsunami Politics’ to ‘Tsunami Marketing’ – from “Emotional Tsunamis” to “Financial Tsunamis” to “Spiritual Tsunamis” – and from “Regulatory Tsunamis” to “Sociological Tsunamis”.

Hence, Americans have not only imbibed the whole science of Tsunami warning signs and its cosmic origins – but they have uniquely reinvented the word to include the intangible aftershocks on the psyche and areas of human endeavor – myself included.

Crop Circle Sightings – Genuine or Global Graffiti Hoax?

Most researchers say that crop circles are man-made graffiti. But there is about 20% of these patterned crop anomalies that cannot be explained away easily – instances of electromagnetic distortions or Eco-Paranormal Phenomena whereby watches, mobile phones, batteries, cameras, and radio equipment suddenly fail to work within these areas.

Whatever the strange effects – why is it that crop circle sightings appear all over the world? This is not a conclusive list – but to date, I have found a history of crop circle sightings in the following countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Isle-of-Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sardinia, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tasmania, Turkey, Uruguay, USA, Wales – the most recent sighting being in the rice fields of Central Indonesia on January 23, 2011.

What’s more, there are now crop circle tours and crop circle groups for adventure-seekers throughout continental Europe and especially England – particularly as southern England in the county of Wiltshire appears to be the center of most crop circle activities. Some of the best crop circle tours are as follows:

1- Spiritual Quest Journeys – http://www.spiritualquestjourneys.com/choose-a-journey/

2- Journeys with Soul – http://www.journeyswithsoul.com/cropcircles.html

3- Crop Circle Tours – http://www.cropcircletours.com/

4- Glastonbury Symposium – http://www.glastonburysymposium.co.uk/tour.html

5- Megalithic Tours – http://www.megalithictours.com/tourDiary.htm

6- Magical Mystery Tours – http://www.magicalmysterytours.com/cropcircle3.html

So if you are looking for some amazing eco-phenomena and exquisite formations of cosmic art this summer – YOU ARE NOT ALONE – and be sure to include a stopover at “The White Horse Inn”, a lovely family-run pub in the village of Compton Bassett as well as a research center for today’s leading crop circle investigators!