The View From Above: Serpent Mound, Peebles, Ohio

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Serpent Mound, Peebles, Ohio

39° 1'33.00"N 83°25'46.66"W

The Serpent Mound is 1,370 feet long. The most likely builders are the Adena Culture (800 BCE - 100 CE), the Hopewell culture (200 BCE - 500 CE), and the Fort Ancient Culture (1000 CE -1650 CE). Radio carbon dating of materials discovered in 1996 (see below) has indicated that the mound was built circa 1050 CE. This suggests that it was built by the Fort Ancient culture. The mound was built close in time to the appearance in the sky of a supernova which left behind the Crab Nebula (1054 CE), and may have been built in recognition of the strange light in the sky. More on Serpent Mound.

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Why "View From Above"

I have an unquenchable thirst for exploration and mysteries. But that isn't the only reason for "View From Above." This blog exists primarily thanks to the despicable ignorance and laziness of the many, many people who will post a picture of some anomaly and simply make guesses about it, rather than do five minutes worth of research. I can't count the many times I've seen aerial pictures of "UFOs parked in a row on the beach" (They're beach umbrellas, you dork!) or questions like, "What's this aircraft doing sitting in the middle of the desert?" (It's a military firing range. They use junk aircraft as targets. Duh!) The unwillingness on the part of most people to do even a minimal amount of research just boggles the mind.

Another pet peeve of mine is the practice of posting an interesting site without a precise location. I don't know if it's laziness, oversight, or a desire to hoard information, but it's irritating as hell to me. That's why mosts of my posts will always include coordinates to the site.

I hope you'll enjoy perusing the sites I've listed. I can't take credit for being the first to "find" most of them, but I will do my best to let you know what I find out about them!

Michael Makai