Doug Bower & Dave Chorley (crop-circle hoaxers)
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Two painters with planks and string are the confessed origin of the whole crop-circle craze.
Who they are
Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two English landscape painters.
What they do
The documented starting point of the modern crop-circle phenomenon.
How it works
In September 1991 they confessed that over roughly 15 years they had flattened hundreds of crop circles using nothing more than wooden planks and string.
Why it matters
They anchor the plain, mundane explanation for crop circles — the 'it was hoaxed' baseline against which any anomaly claim has to be weighed.
The engine's record — word for word
Anomalous-Phenomena raw-data extraction (2026-06-11): the two landscape painters who in Sept 1991 confessed to making hundreds of crop circles over ~15 years with planks and string — the documented origin of the modern hoax wave. The (A) anchor.
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