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The first one mysteriously appeared in a field in southern England in September 1976.

Observers were amazed.\u00a0 What had produced the enormous \u201ccrop circle\u201d thatseemed to come from nowhere?\u00a0

More circles followed.\u00a0 Soon the English countryside was dotted with increasingly elaborate geometric designs and symbols, all sculpted in fields of wheat, barley, and corn.\u00a0 Then the phenomenon went global.\u00a0 At least 27 other countries have reported circles of their own.\u00a0

Scientists were baffled.\u00a0 Some suggested that unusual wind shears were at work.\u00a0 In the 1980s, several zoologists (I am not making this up) theorized that the patterns were produced by exceptionally amorous hedgehogs during mating season \u2013 although it\u2019s hard to imagine how dinner and a movie could lead to spectacular 100-foot wide circles.

Conspiracy theorists weighed in.\u00a0 The government had to know something.\u00a0 Authorities were no doubt shielding the public from the reality of a new kind of weapon or energy source.\u00a0

A molecular biologist named Horace Drew suggested that people living in the future might be sending messages back in time to help humanity find its way.\u00a0 He claims to have cracked the \u201ccrop circle code.\u201d\u00a0 The news flashes he has revealed so far sound as if they might have come from fortune cookies: \u201cThere is good out there,\u201d and, \u201cBelieve.\u201d

Then there are the \u201ccroppies\u201d \u2013 those who believe that something supernatural or extraterrestrial is staring us right in the face.\u00a0

Think about it: Myriads of people believe in ghosts, the Loch Ness monster, telekinesis and other phenomena.\u00a0 But it\u2019s notoriously difficult to document their reality.\u00a0 The Travel Channel just kicked off a second full season of Expedition Bigfoot<\/em>, in which intrepid investigators comb the wilderness in search of any shred of evidence for Sasquatch.\u00a0 But the big hairy guy never shows up (except of course in Jack Links Jerky commercials).\u00a0

Croppies are thrilled because crop circles are different.\u00a0 They are really here<\/em>.\u00a0 Something is really happening<\/em>.\u00a0

Those who favor an extraterrestrial explanation remind us that aliens don\u2019t actually have to visit our wheat fields to create the circles.\u00a0 Perhaps they remain in their spaceships and utilize invisible high-energy beams.\u00a0 That\u2019s why the circles seem to magically appear overnight.\u00a0 How else are we to account for the extraordinary design in the image above?\u00a0

That 780-foot monstrosity appeared suddenly in 2001 near Wiltshire, England, not far from Stonehenge.\u00a0 It is composed of 409 circles that form a six-sided double triskelion with interlocking spirals.\u00a0 This is evidence of intelligence.\u00a0 Surely no one can entertain the fantasy that such figures are the product of wind shear or enthusiastic hedgehogs.\u00a0

The speculation continued until the fall of 1991.\u00a0 That\u2019s when Doug Bower and Dave Chorley stepped forward.

\u201cWe did it,\u201d they confessed.\u00a0 Fifteen years earlier, after a jovial conversation at a local pub, they decided to pull a prank on the global community of UFO devotees.\u00a0 Armed only with a couple of wooden planks held with ropes, and a baseball cap fitted with a wire (enabling them to walk in perfect circles), they sneaked into a farmer\u2019s field late at night and crafted their first design.

Delighted with the public response, Chorley and Bower kept at it.\u00a0 Along the way they were joined by copycat artists.\u00a0 The two men are now officially retired from trespassing in cornfields, but others around the world keep inventing new designs.

And that\u2019s the end of all the fanciful speculation, right?\u00a0

Nope.\u00a0

Even though Bower and Chorley have provided video demonstrations of how the circles are made, tens of thousands of croppies still believe.\u00a0 \u201cYou and your imitators may have made some<\/em> of the circles.\u00a0 But you didn\u2019t make all <\/em>of them.\u00a0 The others may be conveying angelic or extraterrestrial messages.\u00a0 Or perhaps a secret society is trying to threaten us.\u00a0 But something big<\/em> is definitely happening.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0

It\u2019s hard to convince someone they might be wrong, even when their cherished beliefs are publicly discredited.\u00a0

But we can understand the reluctance to let go.\u00a0

Human souls long for enchantment and wonder \u2013 for reassurance that something special and mysterious lies behind ordinary life. \u00a0But we live in a disenchanted world, one in which transactions seem little more than a series of ones and zeroes, and relationships might actually begin and end on flat screens.\u00a0

Without a sense of wonder, life is hard to endure.\u00a0 Can people really accept the consequences of Nothing being at the center of Everything?\u00a0

Crop circles provide the hope \u2013 even if it\u2019s a shot in the dark \u2013 that something big, something worth knowing, lies underneath the fabric of our existence.

That\u2019s an idea that was dear to the hearts of the ancient Hebrews: \u201cThe eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.\u201d (Deuteronomy 33:27)

There really is Someone behind everything else.\u00a0

And walking with him satisfies our enchantment-starved souls.\u00a0 \u00a0
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