The coolest possibly of all the mounds in Ohio. But I've been hesitant to post about it because, well because no place I know is filled with more conjecture, crazy theories, nutty science, real science, but still filled with spiritual peace and beauty.
The mound is thought to have been built by the Adena but then in 1996 some scientists suggested that no it was built by the Fort Ancient Culture but nowadays it's thought again that it really was built by the Adena and that later cultures probably repaired the mound at times thru history.
The mound is a whopping 1348 feet long and roughly waist high. Yeah 1348 feet. And it is located on the highest hilltop around. Which starts half the wild theories at least. See the photos I took were from the top of the steel tower erected to view the mound and even from the top of the tower it is so daggone big you cannot tell the mound looks like. Only by careful survey and redrawing that can you really make out it's shape. To view it as a complete effigy you would have to be hundreds of feet in the air. There are some youtube videos taken by drones that show it is clearly a serpent swallowing what might be a giant egg (or the sun, or earth, or the circle of life, or a comet, or on and on...depending on who is doing the interpreting).
So here's the weird part, the Adena built a giant 1/4 mile picture that you can only tell what it is from hundreds of feet in the air above it ???? As you can imagine there must be at least a thousand theories on why they would do this. The two that are probably the most popular are the kinda sensible one that whatever great spirits the Adena thought dwelt in the sky could see it or the theory that, well, space aliens could see it. And not just one person has suggested the mounds connection to space aliens but thousands and many of those see the mound as absolute proof of ancient alien visitation. I think it has been on several ancient alien TV shows.
But that is only maybe half of the weirdness surrounding the mound. There is a supposed old photograph of a giant skeleton excavated at the serpent mound. This is seen as proof by many that the mound was built by an ancient race of giants that supposedly built many of the mounds across Ohio and nearby states. Dozens of websites attribute the mound to the Nephilim which were a race of giants that the bible says were on the earth but were destroyed by the great flood. In fact there were so many of these sites that I dug out my grandmothers old King James Bible and looked up Genisis 2 thru 6 which has to be the strangest part in the bible and at face value does hint at giants and space aliens. Further digging seems to suggest that the giant supposedly found at the serpent was a hoax as were many others. But the weirdness doesn't stop. The Smithsonian does have it seems at least 17 skeletons from ancient native American sites that were around seven feet tall or better! From what I understand, statistically the Smithsonian should have excavated 2.5 million skeletons to have found that many giant skeletons by chance. So yeah most of the giant stories associated with native American sites were hoaxes but there is some strange weird truth under it all. On top of all that weirdness is the astronomical alignments. Even at the site there are signs saying if you stand here in this open loop you can look over this coil in the serpent and see the sunrise on the solstice and stand here you can see the equinox and so on. Honestly this seems like some pretty shaky science to me. I think I could come up with astronomical alignments for my house or even the US interstate system that seem just as plausible. I know one alignment is that the snakes body as it joins the head and the head itself are aligned to the north star, never mind that the "egg" and the other 900 feet of the snake don't align, this one small portion does. Which of course is food for all the ancient alien people. Not only can you only see this thing from space but it's aligned with the heavens! To me it seems the whole alignment thing at this mound seems like a case of pretty sketchy science and even sketchier space alien logic.
Uggh… so there's a mound you can only truly view from hundreds of feet in the air that wasn't built by giants after all but giants were really found at few other mounds and it may or may not be aligned to the heavens.
Oh yeah there's more. The serpent mound is set on a ridgetop that is actually the edge of a giant crater from an ancient asteroid strike. According to state geologists they are nearly certain that the area is a four mile wide crater from a primordial asteroid strike. Seems that the area is covered in Iridium which is rare everywhere but where asteroids have struck. Or sometimes where volcanoes have spewed it up from the Earths core in lava flows. But there are no lava flows in Ohio so the Iridium had to have came from space. Imagine what the space alien guys think of that.
So anyways go to Adams county sometime and visit the Great Serpent mound it is a beautiful place and you will be in awe of what native Americans could accomplish even if you aren't abducted by aliens while you are there....
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