Jun 15 2019

SYSK Selects: What's the Deal with Crop Circles?

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For a while in the 1980s, people were fascinated and confused about what exactly crop circles were. Now we know that they aren't signs left from aliens, but art made by humans. Learn all about these stunning, large form art installations in today's episode.

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# Stuff You Should Know - Crop Circles Summary

Josh and Chuck dive into the fascinating and quirky world of crop circles, exploring everything from their murky origins in 16th-century England to their explosive popularity in the paranormal-obsessed 1990s. The guys break down the wild theories about what creates them—from alien spacecraft to plasma vortexes to microwaves—while revealing the surprisingly mundane truth: they're actually elaborate geometric artwork created by clever pranksters using nothing more than ropes, planks, and some solid math skills. You'll learn how two guys from England accidentally started a global phenomenon that even had the Queen reading about UFOs, and discover why the mystery somehow persists even though the creators literally came forward and showed everyone how to do it.


Movies Discussed

Love Is Blind
Love Is Blind
2020
★ 6.2
"We're going to be talking to Nancy Rodriguez from Netflix's Love is Blind Season 3. — Referenced in an advertisement for the Cheekies and Chill podcast during the episode."
Signs
Signs
2002 1h 46m
★ 6.7
"There's even a movie called Science, a terrible, terrible movie starring Mel Gibson about this very thing. — Josh mentions a Mel Gibson movie about crop circles, referring to the film 'Signs' which involves aliens creating crop circles." — Josh
The X-Files
The X-Files
1993
★ 8.4
"among people who watch the X-Files. And again, the 90s were a deeply paranoid decade — The X-Files is mentioned as a show that contributed to the paranoia and popularity of crop circle theories in the 1990s." — Chuck

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