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Dictionary.com defines hoaxing as an 'act intended to deceive or trick' or 'something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means'. In 1991, two elderly gentlemen, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, claimed to have been responsible for the rash of crop circles in southern England over the previous 12 years. They claimed this included all of the circles from Warminster in the west to Eastbourne in the east, and as far north as Wantage. Doug and Dave were among the first to admit they had found a better use for night-time hours than mere sleep. But feelings run high between those who claim to be hoaxers and those who study the phenomenon. Crop circle researcher Professor Michael Glickman feels strongly about anyone who is reputing to be a hoaxer. He said: "I think they are liars and cheats - hoaxers are conmen. I think the extent of hoaxing is very, very small and it is massively exaggerated by the media. I have taught design and architecture for thirty years and I know about design. These people are truly, truly rotten designers and they are a disgrace to the crop circle." Such strength of feeling is echoed by the Circlemakers, the UK's most well-known crop circle-makers. Jim Schnabel argues that those who make circles pay greater attention to researchers' predictions and fulfill them. He adds that researchers read into the circles what they want to see. On the Circlemakers' website Schnabel writes: "As I began to make circles myself, l noted that my own mistakes, or unconscious idiosyncracies, were transformed magically by cerealogists into special accomplishments that no human could possibly duplicate. A standing stalk in a circle of felled wheat, missed by my garden roller as a lawnmower might miss a blade of grass, was seen as a cerealogical miracle." But after all the mystery and intrigue surrounding these beautiful formations, we must answer the question - does it really matter where they come from, how they are made and who made them? In his book Conclusive Evidence (Bloomsbury, 14 May 1992), Pat Delgado describes entering a circle that he knew to be a hoax: "There were two people already in it and they were dowsing with rods and describing to each other the sensations they were experiencing. "We began talking and they told me about the energies they had felt as they were approaching the circle and how these energies became stronger as they entered. They also described the warmth and peace that permeated the area. I thought how wonderful that man can create such a place as this and unknowingly have created what may be termed a shrine. Does it really matter how circles are created if this is the effect they produce?" What do you think? Click here to check out our forum. |
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