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Christchurch is the latest place in the world to become the home of a mysterious metal monolith.
First it was Utah, then California, Romania and the Netherlands.
Now, half a world away, Christchurch is the last place in the world to become the home of a mysterious metal monolith.
The 10-foot object appeared overnight at Christchurch Adventure Park in Port Hills.
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A monolith was placed in a red rock desert at an undisclosed location in Utah’s San Juan County last month. Later it was removed, the gleaming monolith seemed to melt as mysteriously as it appeared in the American desert.
It’s similar to one found in the desert in San Juan County, Utah in November, which made headlines around the world.
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The most likely theory is that they are the work of an obscure art collective, but another is that they were installed by aliens.
Cam Hill, events manager at the adventure park, insists the company did not erect the monolith and says staff are puzzled about how it got there, showing up sometime between 5 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. the next day. .
“We have no idea who put it there or why,” he said Sunday. “The team discovered him this morning, he wasn’t there when they closed on Saturday at 5.15pm.
“We have a boundary fence and none of the locks were damaged, so they would have had to load it.”
This monolith was discovered on the top of a hill in Atascadero, California, before being replaced by a cross.
The Christchurch monolith is hollow, with the base buried in the ground. It’s about 750 meters from the closest parking lot, Hill said.
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After news of the Utah monolith broke, similar objects were later seen in Romania, California, and the Netherlands.
It is now believed that the objects were put there by impersonators or pranksters.
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A monolith was found on the Batca Doamnei hill, on the outskirts of Piatra Neamt, in northern Romania, in late November.
Authorities have since removed the original monolith from Utah, and in December a group called The Most Famous Artist posted clues and behind-the-scenes footage of the monoliths’ construction on their Instagram account.
The group, which is based in Sante Fe in New Mexico in the United States, offered to sell the monoliths for around $ 63,000 (US $ 45,000) to interested parties.
When the followers asked him directly if it was “you” who was responsible for the appearance and subsequent disappearance of the monoliths, the most famous artist replied “if you mean us, yes”.
Hill said the Christchurch monolith has created a “real buzz”, with cyclists and walkers stopping and taking photos.
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The heads of Christchurch Adventure Park say they cannot explain how the object got there.
“It seems safe, so we’ll leave it there for now, until we know what to do with it.”
But anyone wishing to glimpse the object must be quick: other monoliths around the world have vanished within days of being erected, disappearing as silently as they appeared.
Assuming the monolith is not the work of aliens, this is not the first time Christchurch has seen mysterious art appear in its landscape.
Shortly before the closure of Covid-19, a “rebel artist” installed a large metal sculpture in the shape of a paper plane that protrudes from the sacred rock of Sumner Beach, Rapanui, also known as Shag Rock for the Cantabrians.
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Mana whenua Katarina Te Maihāroa complained to the Christchurch City Council after being furious that Rapanui, Shag Rock, was adorned with a sculpture.
The artist created it to symbolize the city’s ability to come together and overcome difficult times, but it generated so much criticism that the city council dismissed it and the person in charge apologized.
A mysterious sculpture also appeared atop Christchurch’s Mt Vernon Park last December, leaving park owners wondering who was responsible.
Monoliths are famous in the world of science fiction through Arthur C. Clarke Space odyssey novels and Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation, in which they are machines built by aliens.
It is not the first time that strange sightings around the world have sparked speculation about extraterrestrial life.
From the Nazca Lines in Peru, believed to have been drawn 2,500 years ago, to today’s crop circles, a number of mysteries have been attributed to aliens.
