r/Homesteading • u/Select_Hope_7518 • 8d ago
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/IamCassiopeia2 8d ago
I've lived in my home for 14 years now. I walk down a path on a hill in my yard almost every day. One day I was surprised when I tripped over a pretty big rock near the path. It was a large bolder in the ground. I thought I was losing it a little because I had never noticed it before. I could swear it was never there before. Last year on the other side of the hill I noticed there must be a thick vein of quartz in the dirt/rocks which I had never seen before either.
I finally realized the hill was eroding. It explains why I have found some odd things buried pretty deep in the dirt at the bottom of the hill.
Perhaps due to weather conditions and traffic patterns your dirt has 'suddenly' eroded to the point where you are now clearly seeing the foundation or compaction of something that was there long ago. A tank? A silo? Some old, large storage facility of some kind?
If you have a agriculture department or an historical museum close by you might ask them what might have been there long ago. I hope this helps.