# Crop Circles? Really? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 17, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185 "2013-06-17T15:31:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/21 "2013-06-18T08:03:13Z")
> [@fumster](#): > > What _won’t_ people believe? That it’s a hoax. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/22 "2013-06-18T10:04:11Z")
I never even realized that this was a woo thing. I just thought everyone knew it was a fancy type of vandalism. ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/23 "2013-06-18T10:15:33Z")
Nooooo!! These are a real thing. They are on the cover of Led Zeppelins Complete Collection. Jimmy Page knows stuff :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/24 "2013-06-18T12:03:26Z")
Didn’t our own **ianzin** claim to have made a few crop circles in his day? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/25 "2013-06-18T14:25:32Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > I never even realized that this was a woo thing. I just thought everyone knew it was a fancy type of vandalism. Nevertheless, [it’s a woo thing](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crop_circles). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/26 "2013-06-18T14:44:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Of course, there have never been any fossils-or-bones found in North America of Sasquatch/Bigfoot or any non-human hominid or anthropoid ape. Nevertheless, as a Floridian I **know** the [Skunk Ape](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_ape) exists, so there. You Floridians and your silly superstitions. The Skunk Ape is a myth, not like the very real [Hodag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodag). Hoax my ass, once again, Wikipedia gets it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/27 "2013-06-18T15:01:38Z")
Hey, I’d like to visit a Crop Circle museum! Who cares if they’re fake…I’ve enjoyed visits to UFO and Bigfoot museums even though I don’t particularly believe in the reality of the subject matter. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/28 "2013-06-18T15:16:55Z")
The [Crop Circle Information and Co-ordination Centre](http://www.cropcircleaccess.com/) is still functioning and [has only just launched a new visitor pass scheme](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22935459) (yes, really!). > [@Leaffan](#): > > Actually, I’ve been to the loch Ness Monster Visitor Centre in Drumnadrochit, and quite enjoyed it. You kind of suspend your disbelief and wonder “what if?” No need even to suspend your disbelief. Like all the best crap tourist traps, it is especially enjoyable when you can fully savour the inherent ridiculousness. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/29 "2013-06-18T15:50:03Z")
I don’t believe aliens made them, but I can enjoy the artistry in some of the larger more elaborate ones. Some of them took serious amounts of planning to lay out and accomplish. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/30 "2013-06-18T16:08:48Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > You Floridians and your silly superstitions. The Skunk Ape is a myth, not like the very real [Hodag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodag). Hoax my ass, once again, Wikipedia gets it wrong. Holy shit, the hodag has a Wikipedia entry? Wonders never will cease, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/31 "2013-06-18T17:35:26Z")
The only reason people figured out how to make crop circles is because they studied the ones the aliens made. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/32 "2013-06-18T17:42:26Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > As David Mitchell commented, have there been people that ever wondered if graffiti on the walls was made by aliens? Kilroy was out there. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/33 "2013-06-18T17:50:01Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Actually, I’ve been to the loch Ness Monster Visitor Centre in Drumnadrochit, and quite enjoyed it. You kind of suspend your disbelief and wonder “what if?” I’ve read a travelogue by the late David Rakoff in which he described \*two \*Nessie museums there - the one full of exhibits about how it could all be real, and another explaining how it’s all fake and who did it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/34 "2013-06-19T05:50:12Z")
There is also this: [Center-pivot irrigation - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation) Freakin’ Genius, I say! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/35 "2013-06-19T16:55:46Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > I > > But the best part? The farmhands positioned throughout the circle stopping people and saying “Don’t take Gary’s (the farmer) wheat”. Apparently people were just taking bunches of it for souvenirs. Of course, I did too…but just a little bit…lol Ok, so here’s my respectful hijack: what on earth did you do with the wheat? I admit don’t really have a comprehension of souvenirs like this. I buy souvenirs occasionally but they are always “useful” things - these days fridge magnets work really well. But people seem to want anything for a souvenir. A strand of wheat?! What do you do with that ten or fifteen years down the road? (I know what I do with it - throw it away). ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/36 "2013-06-19T17:13:24Z")
Anaamika- The Wife and I collect sand on vacations. We tend to go to islands or other sea-side destinations. Over the past few years we have gotten into the habit of drinking a bottle of the local beer, then filling the bottle with sand from the beach. I can imagine a wheat collector operating the same way, although the grain may need a hand-written label. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/37 "2013-06-19T17:40:22Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > The Wife and I collect sand on vacations. We tend to go to islands or other sea-side destinations. Over the past few years we have gotten into the habit of drinking a bottle of the local beer, then filling the bottle with sand from the beach. > > I can imagine a wheat collector operating the same way, although the grain may need a hand-written label. There’s a store near me for people who do that, except it’s hops, not wheat. I guess the idea is that someone will dissolve the hops in a liquid, and then seal it in a bottle. And you can collect ones from all over the world. Come to think of it, there are quite a few stores like that. Must be a very popular hobby. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/38 "2013-06-19T19:10:46Z")
But then what do you do with the bottles? Just display them somewhere? I thought once of collecting dirt from all of the places I’ve been. But I am so not a collector and probably would just end up throwing it away after a few years. Dirt’s dirt. Sand’s sand. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/39 "2013-06-19T19:12:06Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > But then what do you do with the bottles? Just display them somewhere? > > I thought once of collecting dirt from all of the places I’ve been. But I am so not a collector and probably would just end up throwing it away after a few years. Dirt’s dirt. Sand’s sand. He’s messing with you. He’s talking about beer 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185/40 "2013-06-19T19:12:33Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > But then what do you do with the bottles? Just display them somewhere? > > I thought once of collecting dirt from all of the places I’ve been. But I am so not a collector and probably would just end up throwing it away after a few years. Dirt’s dirt. Sand’s sand. They are in the hutch in the kitchen, along with the vintage cocktail shakers and martini glasses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crop-circles-really/661185.md?page=3)