The Georgia Guidestones: America's Most Mysterious Monument($18.95Value)

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“Raymond Wiley and KT Prime do a first-class job of telling what is known about the stones and what is not, revealing and exploring their mysteries one by one.”—Graham Hancock, bestselling author of  Visionary  and  Fingerprints of the Gods The Georgia Guidestones are a collection of standing stones near Elberton, Georgia. Built in 1980, they are primarily composed of six slabs of granite: one central pillar, four “major” stones that fan out from the center, and a capstone. The capstone has engravings on all four of its sides in four ancient languages, all of which read, “Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason,” when translated. The major stones are each engraved on both sides, and each side contains text in one of eight modern languages asserting the same ten guidelines. Those guidelines have proven extremely controversial, causing speculation and rumors of conspiracy that go far beyond northeast Georgia. Conspiracy theorists surmise a global plot on the part of a group of shadowy men to subjugate and oppress the world’s population and create a “new world order.” Others believe that the man behind the monument was a Rosicrucian and that the stones are representative of that group’s magical manifesto. Some people even believe that it is a landing site for an alien spacecraft of some kind. At the heart of this confusion is the missing piece of the puzzle: who was the mystery man who started the entire chain of events? Raymond Wiley is an historian, broadcaster and producer based in Athens, Georgia. Episodes of his audio series, Out There Radio and The Disinformation Podcasts, have been syndicated on numerous AM and FM stations and downloaded millions of times. He has been described as "a sober, Southeastern version of the radio host Art Bell, exhaustive in chronicling conspiracy theories and the occult." KT Prime is a freelance writer and novelist from Athens, Georgia. Her first novel, ONE, will be available in 2013.