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Paranormal Investigator Magazine

Out in the Fields:
By Sarah Harmon aka Paranormal Sarah
As a counselor for alternative occurrences, stories of aliens and lights in the sky abduct my daily
research quite often. Many of those who believe
they’ve been abducted show similar symptoms,
but rarely is that symptom the presence of a
crop circle in their yard. Though many could argue that those abductees do not have yards or
property and therefore the possibility isn’t feasible but without much mention of these geometric oddities and the growing decline of farmland,
are crop circles still a ‘paranormal phenomenon’
or where they a dying product of the horror and
sci-fi genre? The truth is crop circles still make
their appearance across the globe and statistics of those reported shows crop circles appear
on average about 110 times through a calendar
year. From Norway to England and yes, even
the United States, a strange phenomenon is still
leaving its mark that a presence still exists.
It is no surprise that many theories exist about the
possible explanation of these unique geometric
shapes left on our planet’s surface, but what has
come of them and where do you stand on the
phenomenon of crop circles? From copulating
hedgehogs to parasitic crop fungus (Marasmus
ordeades or Clitocybe gigantean), people have
stated the cause of these haunting monuments
left pressed into the land could be as simple as
teenagers gallivanting in the dark with planks on
strings. Regardless of your theory, the fact remains that they are to this day still considered
an unexplained phenomenon. Firstly, to come
to your own conclusion, it is important to have a
somewhat firm grasp on what a crop circle really is. Common sense would tell you that clearly

A Look
at Crop
Circles
it is a tampering of crops, but crop circles by
definition are geometric patterns, often very intricate and complex, appearing in a field. Now,
the psychologist in me wants to make it clear
that a crop circle absolutely does exist and
you can even visit them as most have become
tourist attractions across the planet. Crop circles associated with extraterrestrials however
is a completely separate rabbit hole that links
the geometric shapes to the dark corners of the
paranormal realm. As early as the 17th Century,
farmers were documenting the ‘mowing Devil’
as he left their crops in disarray in the night.
Documentation of the crop circle phenomenon
is quite old, dating far beyond the entrance of
modern technology, that which now lets us be
aware of their presence and the statistics about
them.
Perhaps the reason so many people associate
them to extraterrestrials is the mindset that from
a standing eye-level, the ground simply looks
flattened, burned or tampered with. It is not until the viewer gazes down on the masterpiece
from the sky that they see just how amazing the
crop circles can be. Though some researchers
account the crop circles to being vortices of energy, magnetic fields or other natural phenomenon we don’t quite understand, it is the parallel
to local sightings of lights in the sky and the ‘other’ characteristics of these patterns that make
them alien to the everyday farmer. One unique
complication that bends the theory that these

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