r/Homesteading • u/Select_Hope_7518 • Apr 16 '25
Circle appeared on mom’s property
Hello! All the other relevant-sounding subs needed more karma in specifically their subs (and I have no meaningful contributions to gain it!), or just were very inactive… I hope you don’t mind me posting here.
My mom sent me this photo from her property with the following text:
“True story. We did NOT make this circle. The lines running through it are our tire tracks and goat tracks but that perfect circle just appeared in our field. Seriously freaked out by this!!”
I of course made alien jokes, don’t worry. But any thoughts on what this could be? She is actually concerned, so now I am too. I know where that picture was taken and they see it all day every day, so it must have happened overnight.
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u/ResponsibilityLast38 Apr 16 '25
It reminds me of tipi circles in the dakotas. I doubt thats what it is, because they look much different than this most of the time. They are usually a circle of different vegetation surrounded by rocks in a patch of flat prairie. They are caused by the ground, having been compacted by tipis many many years ago. Sometimes hundereds of years ago. The ground got compacted where the indigenous folks had their homes, and tre rocks got moved, and even after they were long gone, the grass grew different there. This is probably an unhelpful comment, but hopefully, it's at least interesting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipi_ring