Since 1980, a set of granite monoliths known as “America’s Stonehenge” have drawn visitors to Elberton, Ga. This week, they were demolished following a mysterious explosion.
“For safety reasons, the structure has been completely demolished,” said a tweet from the Gerogia Bureau of Investigation about the Georgia Guidestones. The bureau said preliminary information indicates that “unknown individuals detonated an explosive device” around 4 a.m. Wednesday. None were injured in the blast.
Authorities are investigating the incident and surveillance video of the explosion has been released. A car can be seen leaving the scene of the incident.
According to the Explore Georgia tourism site, the monument was 19-ft. high that displayed a 10-part message “espousing the conservation of mankind and future generations in 12 languages,” and had Babylonian cuneiform, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian Hieroglyphics inscribed on it. It also served as an astronomical calendar, said the site. Every day at noon, the sun would shine through a narrow hole in the structure to illuminate the day’s date on the engraving.
“The Guidestones are mysterious in origin, for no one knows the identity of a group of sponsors who provided its specifications,” Explore Georgia said.
Wired magazine described the structure as “the strangest monument in America,” made up of five slabs supporting a 25,000-lb. capstone. Its message seemed to follow a “peculiar New Age ideology,” that vaguely referenced eugenics and “standard-issue hippie mysticism,” said the outlet.
A man who went under the pseudonym “R.C. Christian” came to Elberton in 1979 to begin work on the project, and told local granite workers and bankers that he was with a group who planned the structure in secret over a 20-year period. A local banker would keep up in contact with the man until around the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when he would have been in his 80s, Wired reported.
Additionally, Wired noted that since appearing more than four decades ago, the monoliths have had garnered a mixed response, as well as occasional vandalism. Some have even associated the structure with Satan. One of those people is Kandiss Taylor, a Georgia teacher who has announced she plans to run for governor.
“I am the ONLY candidate bold enough to stand up to the Luciferian Cabal,” she said in a tweet this May. “Elect me Governor of Georgia, and I will bring the Satanic Regime to its knees— and DEMOLISH the Georgia Guidestones.”
Taylor, who identifies as a Christian, linked to a message referencing a “Global Luciferian Regime,” on her website.
“They demoralized us with humiliation rituals as they tore down our historical monuments, persecuted our children, locked us down in our homes, and forced us into becoming walking science experiments through a global vaccination program,” it reads. “They erected statues spelling out the exact plans they had for us, and today we the people of Georgia, say no more.”
Authorities have asked anyone with information about the explosion to contact the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office at (706) 283-2421 or the Georgia Bureau of Investigation at (706) 552-2309. Anonymous tips can also be submitted by calling 1-800-597-TIPS (8477), or online at https://gbi.georgia.gov/submit-tips-online.
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