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Albert Jack

From the best selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries and many more...

Who Really Makes Crop Circles?

Strange formations in fields of wheat and other crops have been appearing since the 1970s. Are they made by aliens parking their spaceships, or is the explanation rather more down to earth?

Of all the subjects I’ve explored for this series, the one I was most looking forward to finding more about was crop circles. For years I had been hoping there would be an extraordinary paranormal explanation for crop-circle appearances or, better still, that we were being visited by aliens from other worlds.

Then, when it became clear that most of the circles were in fact hoaxes, I relished the thought that I would finally have the chance to dismiss all the crop-circle fanatics I have heard on the radio over the years talking with great passion about the temporary parking of invisible spacecraft in a field, leaving behind an imprint in the flattened wheat when they zoom back into outer space.

The only extra bit of evidence offered for this startling conclusion appearing to be that witnesses claim flocks of birds veer around crop-circle sites as if avoiding or circumnavigating something the rest of us cannot see.

I was looking forward to poking fun at the gaping holes left in the arguments of these so-called experts when expounding their elaborate theories on the six o’clock news.

Indeed, I wish I had phoned in once, just once, and asked that sanctimonious old fellow on the BBC, who appeared to be contradicting himself every five minutes, a couple of simple questions: how, then, do you explain the crop circles that have appeared directly underneath power lines – how could a spaceship have landed there?

Part of Albert Jack's Mysterious World series

Red Elephants Audio

Albert Jack's Mysterious World

Crop Circles: Who Really Makes Crop Circles?

From the internationally best selling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, New World Order and many more;

Albert Jack's Mysterious World is a collection of the world's most famous and puzzling mysteries.

What really happened to Agatha Christie?

Who is responsible for Crop Circles

Where is Bigfoot?

Could Aliens really exist?

From crop circles to the Scottish lighthouse keepers who vanished one stormy night and from religious visions to the spine tingling tale of a restless family tomb, bestselling author Albert Jack has now turned his detective skills to the mysteries that have baffled so many over the years.

And he has discovered all kinds of fascinating and surprising evidence.

Using 'Occam's Razor' Jack neatly peels away the myth, the legend, the improbable and unlikely and exams only the plausible.

'Sometimes the smarter stocking-filler may even help you to think better as well as to trounce the rival quiz crew.

From the Bermuda Triangle to the Loch Ness Monster Albert Jack offers a crash course in sceptical thinking. Brilliant' - The Independent, Books of the Year.

Part One Includes

The Famous Aurora Spaceship Mystery

The Mysterious Death of God’s Own Banker

Try to See It from My Angle: The Bermuda Triangle

Does Bigfoot Exist?

The Spine-chilling Tale of the Chase Vault

Committing the Perfect Crime: The Mysterious D. B. Cooper

The Real-life Agatha Christie Mystery

Who Really Makes Crop Circles?

John Dillinger: Whatever Happened to America’s Robin Hood?

The Missing Navy Diver

The Dover Demon

Albert Jack's Mysterious World - Part 1: History's Greatest Mysteries