Your True Tales
July 2005 – Page 15

Mini-Stonehenge Makers
by Brandi

This is a strange tale, perhaps not paranormal, but very odd. My husband is a landscaper by trade and several of his clients live along the same hilly, ocean-view road. A few weeks ago, he needed to move some bricks that were left over after a renovation to his client's house. He put them in his wheelbarrow and moved them downhill from the house into the backyard. The lower yard is bounded by blackberry bushes all along the length of it, and there is a small path cutting into the bushes where the compost pile is hidden. My husband dumped the bricks next to the brambles and close to the compost and thought nothing more of it. His clients left on a trip out of the country for three weeks, so during that time he only went over to put their recyclables out for them.

The week after they returned, my husband was back to prune and mow for them. He took the clippings down the hill to the compost as usual, but when he saw the pile of bricks a creepy feeling came over him. The bricks had been placed in megalith-like forms with uprights and lintels, and in the center of it all was a small "house" of four or five of the bricks. This area is very sloped and almost difficult to stand on, but whoever created the forms managed to get one of the bricks to stand on its corner atop another one!

My husband asked the homeowners if they created it but their answer was of course, no. He went next door to another client (a good friend of the owners) and asked the same question, receiving the same answer. Are little people living in their garden using the brambles for shelter? Or was it a neighbor with an odd sense of humor? Either way, the homeowners left the forms as-is to encourage the artist(s) to continue.

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