Explained: The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Utah Metal Monolith
The mysterious appearance and disappearance of the utah monolith and the romania monolith has people extremely intrigued.
The mystery of the metal monolith that appeared in Utah and then disappeared all of a sudden, has people on the edge of their seats. With various conspiracy theories floating around - from aliens to a dead artist placing it at the remote location - everyone is hooked on to every piece of news about the structure.
However, a recent development has revealed the reason behind the disappearance of the monolith and - spoiler alert - it is not aliens.
On Tuesday, pictures of four men working at night to remove the triangular pillar from the far-off location in the western United States desert, surfaced on social media.
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Photographer Ross Bernards was visiting the monolith on Friday and took to Instagram to explain how four men suddenly came out of nowhere in the night. According to him, they pushed the structure over and dismantled it to carry it off in a wheelbarrow.
In his Instagram post, Bernards wrote, 'On Friday, 3 friends and myself drove the 6 hours down to the middle of nowhere in Utah and got to the ¡°trailhead¡± around 7 PM after passing a sea of cars on our way in'.
'We passed one group as we hiked towards the mysterious monolith, while another group was there when we arrived, and they left pretty quick after we got there. For the next hour and 40 minutes we had the place to ourselves'.
He added, 'I had just finished taking some photos of the monolith under the moonlight and was taking a break, thinking about settings I needed to change for my last battery of drone flight when we heard some voices coming up the canyon. We were contemplating packing up our things as they walked up, so they could enjoy it for themselves like we did. At this point I looked down at my watch and it was 8:40 PM'.
He explained further, '4 guys rounded the corner and 2 of them walked forward. They gave a couple of pushes on the monolith and one of them said ¡°You better have got your pictures.¡± He then gave it a big push, and it went over, leaning to one side'.
'They quickly broke it apart and as they were carrying to the wheelbarrow that they had brought one of them looked back at us all and said ¡°Leave no trace.¡± That was at 8:48'.
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The mysterious monolith was first noticed on November 18 by local officials who were flying in a helicopter, counting bighorn sheep.
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Making things more mysterious, a similar metal monolith was spotted on a hillside in Romania which also disappeared on Tuesday from mountainous Neamt county.
"The 2.8 metre (9ft) tall structure disappeared overnight as quietly as it was erected last week," journalist Robert Iosub of the Ziar Piatra Neamt local newspaper, who had seen the structure, told Reuters.
"An unidentified person, apparently a bad local welder, made it... now all that remains is just a small hole covered by rocky soil," local reporters had discovered, he said. The sheet metal structure had a badly-welded join, he added.
Officers are investigating into the illegally-installed structure, said a spokeswoman for Piatra Neamt police, Georgiana Mosu.
So the #Monolith first appeared in #Utah and then disappeared yesterday. Then seemingly instantly appeared on the other side of the globe in less than 24 hours in #Romania ?!?!? pic.twitter.com/MrgG3La5vE
¡ª David Vox Mullen (@DavidVoxMullen) November 30, 2020
What in the monolith is happening?
