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Oct 7, 2026
Crop Circles: Hoax, Science, or Something Else
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5:22BrendaHOST
This brings up a question.
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5:24BrendaHOST
If humans created the majority of crop circles, does that mean we explained the source of all of them? Is it possible that something else may be coming into play? When most people talk about crop circles, they often reference a tale called The Mowing Devil or The Strange News Out of Hertfordshire.
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5:46BrendaHOST
This is the title of an English woodcut pamphlet that was published in 1678.
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5:53BrendaHOST
It tells the story of an unnamed farmer in Hertfordshire, England, who needed someone to cut his field of oats.
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25:39BrendaHOST
They had watched the object descend towards the ground and move across a field before a formation occurred.
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25:46BrendaHOST
Occasionally, someone alleges that they had watched a crop circle form.
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25:52BrendaHOST
One example that believers use is the 1678 Mowing Devil tale that we talked about earlier in this episode.
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26:00BrendaHOST
There are other stories, though.