A metal pillar on the Batca Doamnei hill in Piatra Neamt, Romania.
Bucharest, Romania:
A metal monolith that mysteriously appeared atop a hill in northern Romania has sparked curiosity and ridicule online, just days after a similar object was found in the Utah desert.
Images of the four-meter-high metal object were first published last week by local media outlets in the Neamt region.
Jurnal FM radio station went to investigate the monolith after an email arrived about it on Thursday.
“We were surprised to say the least when we found a … metal structure that had spirals etched into its sides,” the station said in a story posted on its website.
Local news outlet ziarpiatraneamt.ro also posted a video taken by a man who went to the top of the hill to see the object for himself.
In a video posted on Facebook, the man says the object is “just an old junk that someone placed here.”
Another Facebook user, Alexandru, was equally scathing, commenting, “We are not even able to do a proper copycat.”
Others noted that the object had obvious weld marks.
When asked about reactions to the structure, Jurnal FM reporter Cirprian Solomon says the attention it has attracted “has a lot to do with Utah.”
“There are many unanswered questions,” Solomon told AFP, adding: “Why in Neamt? Why now?”
Those who are still curious to see the mysterious object up close for themselves may have missed the opportunity, as the pillar appears to have disappeared.
“The monolith disappeared on November 30, as mysteriously as it appeared,” wrote Jurnal FM in an update to his story.
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