America's Stonehenge: New Hampshire rocks history or hoax?

[European Knight]

SALEM, N.H. — Using the astronomical chart on a table in the covered tower, visitors aim their gaze along worn arrows to huge, upright stones hundreds of feet away. Beyond each slab of granite, clearings stretch the eye to the horizon

on a dazzling day in late summer New Hampshire.

On Wednesday's autumnal equinox, people will flock to the woods near the Massachusetts state line, watch the sun rise or fall over the massive chunks of granite and decide for themselves whether they're standing amid relics of

ancient history or pure hooey.

This is "America's Stonehenge," a weird, one-acre grouping of rock configurations named for the mysterious formation on England's Salisbury Plain. It has drawn believers who say it's a thousand or more years old and skeptics who

say the evidence suggests it was the work of a 19th century shoemaker.

For $12 visitors get to meander along well-trod footpaths through walls of stacked granite, some overtopped with slabs that weigh several tons to form cave-like enclosures like the "Sundeck" chamber and "V-hut."

The spooky centerpiece is the "Oracle" chamber, complete with what is billed as a secret bed and a speaking tube where words spoken from inside the chamber could be heard outside at the equally eerie "Sacrificial Table."

Owner Dennis Stone firmly believes the site — called "Mystery Hill Caves" when it opened in 1958 — is as much as 4,000 years old, the work of Native Americans or perhaps ancient Europeans who arrived millennia before Columbus.

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[Poise n Pen]

There's hundreds of similar things on the east coast of the USA.

[ChristinaLadyBug]

That has to be a hoax. That whole set-up sounds fishy.