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published in June 2002 WILTSHIRE weirdness is a passion for Charles and Frances Mallett, who have transformed Cherhill’s old petrol station into a café and crop circle information centre. Sited below the Cherhill White Horse and the imposing Lansdowne Monument and just a few miles from ancient Avebury, Mr and Mrs Mallett say they couldn’t have found a better spot for their new business venture, which opened last week. The couple are so keen on crop circles that they moved from Devon to Wiltshire five years ago to live in the shadow of the Devizes White Horse at Roundway. They are both former charity and care workers. Mr Mallett, 32, and his wife, 37, believe that crop circles are more than just man-made hoaxes and have spent countless days researching new formations, sleeping in crop circles and writing for specialist websites. “We started researching and measuring crop circles about six years ago and moved up to Wiltshire because we’d heard about what was going on. We have slept in them and had some very strange experiences,” said Mr Mallett. “We concluded that we were looking at things which are beyond your average human hoaxes.” Mr Mallett believes only 20 per cent of crop circles are made by human beings. “For the rest of them there is pretty solid evidence that, particularly in America and Holland, the plants are being hit by rapid bursts of microwave radiation,” said Mr Mallett. “If these things are arriving from somewhere else outside our reality, you only have to look at the state of things to see that maybe we need a wake-up call because we have screwed so many things up.” Now Mr Mallett and his wife are indulging their passion for crop circles by incorporating an information point about them in their new café called The Silent Circle. In just over a month, and with the help of their friends, the couple have transformed the old petrol station on the A4, which was a fried food café for a short time after the garage closed about five years ago. “We wanted to open up the café and the information centre is just a part of that. It is free to anybody who wants to find out about crop circles,” said Mr Mallett. “We’ve got aerial shots, close-up photographs, maps with the exact locations of crop circles marked on them, and artworks on the walls by local artists. “We think we’ll attract a lot of tourists in the summer but this is really a local service and most customers so far have been local people or people just passing by on the busy road. “Since we’ve opened, business has been great and word seems to have spread really quickly. “Neither of us have ever run a business before so it’s really exciting.” Back to 2002 index |
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