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November 19, 2025 22 mins
In this episode, Bennett Tanton explores America's Stonehenge, a site in New Hampshire rich with history and mystery. He delves into its various interpretations, from ancient observatory to colonial farm, and examines the layers of belief and ambition that have shaped its narrative over time. The conversation highlights the site's astronomical alignments, the theories surrounding its construction, and the cultural memory it embodies, ultimately questioning how history is written and remembered.

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In this episode, we head into the pines of Salem,
New Hampshire, to a hill locals called Mystery Hill, and
tourism now calls the America's Stonehenge, and tourism now because
America's Stone end it is a tangle of stone chambers,

(01:22):
grooved slabs, and sight lines that appear to catch the
sun on solstices and the moon at its widest swings.
You will hear the claims ancient observatory, colonial farm, indigenous
ritual ground, or twentieth century re imagining. What you will

(01:46):
not hear from me is blind certainty. We are going
to sift what is known from what is sold and
then ask why the story keeps getting rewritten. Here's the
lay of the land. The core complex spans roughly an
acre on the bedrock summit, with multiple stone chambers, niches, trains,

(02:13):
and walls. The site's most famous features are a four
and a half ton groove tablet, an underground oracle chamber,
and a stone speaking tube that carries a disembodied voice
from chamber to slab. It is equal parts archaeology and theater,

(02:35):
which is exactly why it fascinates me. There is evidence
of a very old fire pits on the hill, but
charcoal dated back thousands of years, and there's also evidence
of much later activity, including colonial area use in twentieth

(02:55):
century restoration that likely change what we see today. In
other words, this hill has layers. We will peel them back,
examine the astronomical alignments that they do hold up, and
talk about how narratives harden into truth when money, myth,

(03:18):
and identity get involved. Then we will end by asking
a harder question. If this was sacred technology for watching
the heavens, what was it guarding on the ground. If
you're new here, I'm benent Tantan, and this is broadcasting seeds.

(03:40):
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like this. So section one Layers of Stone, Layers of Time.

(04:10):
If you drive through southern New Hampshire, you'd never expect
a site like this to exist just a few miles
off of I ninety three. But once you walk up
Mystery Hill, the forest opens and it feels like you've
stepped into a different century, or maybe a different civilization altogether.
America's Stonehenge isn't big or dramatic like the one in England.

(04:36):
It's subtle. Low stone walls crisscross the forest floor, and
a collection of chambers, small, dark and half buried peak
out like portals to another world. Archaeologists describe it as
a paul lympsest, meaning a a record written, erased, and

(05:03):
rewritten over time. Evidence suggests people used this hill for
more used this hill for more than four thousand years.
Charcoal samples pulled from fire pits have been dated as
far back as seven thousand years, suggesting ancient activity. Later
layers tell a different story. Stone cells repurposed as storage

(05:30):
by colonial farmers in the seventeen hundreds. The modern stone
layout that was cleaned up in the nineteen thirties by
William Goodwin, a businessman who sincerely believed Irish monks built
this before Columbus. He re stacked walls, arranged stones, and

(05:53):
renamed the site America's Stonehenge to draw attention and tourists.
And that's where the confusion begins. The current structure we
see today is part archaeology, part reconstruction, and part imagination.
Which parts are authentic in which are twentieth century theater

(06:17):
No one can say for sure, but the mystery goes deeper.
Some chambers appear intentionally aligned to capture the first rays
of the solstice sunrise or to echo sundown they're narrow corridors.
Others feel purely utilitarian, like root sellers or animal pens.

(06:43):
The truth might be that every generation left its fingerprints here.
You've got native tribes, settlers, spiritualists, and later the curious
and the prophiteers. This is what makes a mystery hill
such a perfect metaphor for America itself. Layers of belief, ambition,

(07:05):
and story stacked on top of another until no one
remembers where the foundation truly began. And maybe that's why
it unsettles both scientists and seekers alike. It refuses to
fit neatly into a single box. It's not purely colonial,

(07:26):
but it's not purely prehistoric, and certainly not purely myth.
It's all of it, and like any good mystery, the
moment you think you've got to figure it out, the
ground shifts beneath your feet. Section two. Who built it?

(07:55):
And the theories and the cover ups? Every mystery needs
suspect an America's Stonehenge has a lineup that could fill
an entire season of ancient aliens. You've got your colonial farmers,
your ancient celts, your Phoenician seafarers, and even whispers of

(08:18):
a pre Columbian order of Irish monks known as the Coldies.
Every theory has its evidence, its believers, and its blind spots.
So let's start with the mainstream view of the archaeologists.
They'll tell you the stone chambers and walls are colonial

(08:40):
root sellers, built by eighteenth century settlers trying to survive
New England's winters. The carbon dating, they argue, only proves
that people use the site thousands of years ago, maybe
native tribes passing through or camping there, not that they

(09:01):
built those chambers. The colonial interpretation fits the artifacts found nearby.
You've got iron nails, pottery shards, and seventeen hundreds tools.
In that view, mystery Hill isn't a message from the
ancient ancients. It's the ruins of a hardworking farm. But

(09:25):
then there's the other camp, the dreamers, researchers and independent explorers,
who swear the official story doesn't hold water. They point
to the site's intricate astronomical alignments, the way sunlight and
moonlight hit certain stones on the solstices and equinoxes as

(09:48):
proof of intentional design. A colonial farmer could accidentally line
up a fence or two, sure, but a fourth thousand
pounds slab framing the midsummer sunset with pinpoint precision that
feels deliberate. In the nineteen seventies, Harvard educated epigrapher Barry

(10:14):
Fell claimed he found inscriptions carved on the stones, ancient Celtic, Ogham,
Iberian and Phoenician scripts. If true, it would mean transatlantic
contact thousands of years before Columbus. But professional linguists tore it.

(10:37):
They just tore his work apart, calling it wishful thinking
and paradulia. And if you don't know what peraduli is,
it's seeing patterns that aren't really there. The establishment shut
the door quickly, labeling this all as pseudoscience. Yet here's

(10:59):
the thing about cover. They don't always start with malice.
Sometimes they start with fear. Fear of rewriting history, fear
of admitting we don't know everything, and fear of undermining
the national story we tell ourselves. Whether it's a colonial

(11:20):
site or an ancient observatory, America's Stonehenge threatens the neat
narrative that civilization out. It say that civilization arrived here
on European ships, and history as we know it is
written by those with the loudest pens. So who built it?

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Maybe all of them, maybe none, Maybe each generation found
the hill already marked as sacred and decided to build
on top of what came before.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Like so many other sites around the world, what we
know for sure is this the site keeps its secrets close,
and every time someone tries to claim it, the story
straight up twists. Section three astronomy ritual and the invisible War.

(12:29):
All right, So stand at the center of the site
on a clear morning and you'll feel it, the sense
that this hill wasn't built to worship the sun, but
to watch it. Massive stones a line like sentinels to
mark where the sun rises and sets during solstices and equinoxes.

(12:55):
Others line up with the moons eighteen point six year
cycle known as the lunar standstill. Sometimes that takes generations
of observation to even notice, let alone record in stone.
Whoever placed these markers wasn't just building walls, They were

(13:18):
mapping time itself. The modern caretakers have tested these alignments
with GPS and astronomical software, and bottom line, as they
check out on the summer solstice, the sunrise hits dead
on same with the equinoxes and the cross quarter days,

(13:40):
ancient dates tied to Celtic festivals like Beltane and sam Hayne.
These aren't random rocks, their instruments of skywatching carved into
the bedrock of New England, which begs the question what

(14:02):
were they watching for. Then there's what's being called the
sacrificial table, the massive slab with a groove that looks
suspiciously like a drain. Some call it an altar. Skeptics
say it was used for pressing lie or making soap.

(14:24):
But paired with the so called oracle chamber beneath it,
where a voice can literally travel through a hidden tube
and emerge from the stone above, it starts to feel ritualistic.
Imagine standing there, thousands of years ago in the dawn light,

(14:47):
hearing a voice rumble from the earth. Whether it was divine,
deceptive or ceremonial, the moment you've been, the moment would
have been powerful. And that's where things drift into the
unseen Across time, certain places seem to act like signal boosters,

(15:10):
sacred spaces where the veil gets thin. You've got Stonehenge,
Machu Pichu, the Pyramids, and maybe mystery hill. Cultures from
every continent built megalithic structures, structures aligned with the heavens,
all tuned to the same cosmic clock. Was it shared

(15:34):
knowledge or it shared intuition that the universe itself speaks
in rhythm and the stones were antennas to hear it.
If this was once a temple to the sky, then
it's desecration, commercialization, and manipulation mirror something just way deeper,

(15:59):
a cultural amnesia. We traded sacred architecture for tourist attractions
and truth for convenient myth. Maybe the Invisible War isn't
just spiritual. Maybe it's about memory, about how the keepers
of knowledge were erased, and how the echoes of their

(16:22):
work now whisper beneath the forest floor. America's Stonehenge might
not be proof of aliens, druids, or Venetian traders, but
it is proof that human beings once stood here, watching
the same stars, tracking the same sun, and wondering what

(16:43):
forces guided them. Maybe that same question is what brought
you here tonight. So what do we make of America's
Stone Hinge?

Speaker 5 (17:03):
Eh?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Maybe it's a Maybe it's an ancient observatory built by
forgotten astronomers. Maybe it's a colonial farmstead, that picked up
a myth along the way, Or maybe it's something else entirely,
a marker left by people who understood the earth, the stars,

(17:25):
and the energies flowing between them in ways we've long
since forgotten. Whatever the truth is, one thing's certain. This
still in New Hampshire forces us to confront how fragile
our version of history really is. Every generation builds its

(17:46):
own narrative. Some stories get written in textbooks. Others get
buried under moss and granite until curiosity or divine timing
uncovers them again. America Stonehean stands as a reminder that
the truth doesn't disappear, It just waits for someone willing

(18:09):
to dig for it. And in a world obsessed with
rewriting history, that might be the most radical act of
all to just simply remember. If this episode got you thinking,
I'd love to hear from you, leave a review, Share
this episode with a friend who loves a good mystery,

(18:31):
and make sure you're following broadcasting seeds wherever you listen.
That's how this show grows, and it helps keep these
conversations alive until next time. Keep your eyes on the
skies and your heart grounded in the truth. I'm Bennett Tanton,
and this has been broadcasting seeds all longly.

Speaker 6 (18:54):
Heelta wear the pies reading.

Speaker 7 (18:59):
There's circle made of granny on where.

Speaker 8 (19:03):
Gray or folks save farmers built just the cellar, just
some walls, but the sunrise.

Speaker 7 (19:13):
It's those markers.

Speaker 8 (19:14):
I could answer in ancient call.

Speaker 9 (19:18):
All the stones and the.

Speaker 10 (19:20):
Pine, the remember of them lost.

Speaker 9 (19:25):
Whispering through the seas and holding storages in the front as.
You can cover up the troops, you can barry every line.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
But the past keeps speaking softly through the stones and
the pines. There's a chamber in the hillside where he
had goes and never die, and the table carved with
channel like he drained the sacrifice. Some same months, once

(20:00):
across the ocean, riding currings in the dark.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
Looking for a place of worship.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
Guide adviy s strangers spark all the.

Speaker 10 (20:11):
Stalls in the pine, they remember what we lost, whispering
through the seas and old the stories and fra horse.
You can cover up the troop, you can bury every line.
The past keeps speaking softly through the storms and the pine.

(20:39):
Lantern light on losty ground footsteps.

Speaker 7 (20:43):
No one is something lose between.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
The trees not of this world, not of.

Speaker 6 (20:51):
These Now the tourists walk the hilltop, snapping pictures in
the shade, never knowing what was shifted.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
What was altered, what was meant.

Speaker 8 (21:10):
But the sauceess keeps all rising where it always used
to rise.

Speaker 6 (21:17):
Proof enough, someone long ago was watching sky.

Speaker 9 (21:23):
All the stones in the pies.

Speaker 10 (21:26):
They remember what we lost, Whispering through the seas, and.

Speaker 9 (21:33):
Hold the stories in the froll.

Speaker 10 (21:36):
You can rewrite every chapter, you can guard the dotted lines, But.

Speaker 7 (21:43):
The truth keeps breaking through us, like the sun between
the pines. Yeah, the truth keeps walking with us through
the storm.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
Was it in the past,
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