The Mystery of the Bondsville Ring
by Scott Browne
Every few weeks or so we get together with my brothers family and have dinner with an occasional drink or two. My brother owns 63 acres of land in one of the most picturesque parts of our town and has lived there for over 30 years. Years before the land was used for numerous things such as farming and hunting, but now is only used for its hay to feed various animals on other farms.
Now let me state up front that my brother has zero interest in this subject and is almost indifferent towards it. As I stated in the documentary I am not sure if the events of our childhood are related to this phenomena, but if they are, my brother is directly involved. Its very strange that they had not notified of this earlier considering that they are fully aware of my interest in anomalous subjects.
After dinner on Friday night we sat around talking and laughing as usual when my sister-in-law turned to my brother and said "Did you tell Scott about the circle in the field?" My ears instantly became perked, but with caution because I know these things can many times turn out to be nothing. My brother looked at me and began to explain that this "ring" or circle appeared in the grass approx. 2 years ago and they thought nothing of it until the snow fell because the snow would melt in the ring area much faster than the outer area. He explained that when summer came and the grass was cut the grass in the ring grew much faster than the rest of the area. We decided to drive out there on Sunday so I could take a look and take some photographs of this strange ring.
Now let me state up front that my brother has zero interest in this subject and is almost indifferent towards it. As I stated in the documentary I am not sure if the events of our childhood are related to this phenomena, but if they are, my brother is directly involved. Its very strange that they had not notified of this earlier considering that they are fully aware of my interest in anomalous subjects.
After dinner on Friday night we sat around talking and laughing as usual when my sister-in-law turned to my brother and said "Did you tell Scott about the circle in the field?" My ears instantly became perked, but with caution because I know these things can many times turn out to be nothing. My brother looked at me and began to explain that this "ring" or circle appeared in the grass approx. 2 years ago and they thought nothing of it until the snow fell because the snow would melt in the ring area much faster than the outer area. He explained that when summer came and the grass was cut the grass in the ring grew much faster than the rest of the area. We decided to drive out there on Sunday so I could take a look and take some photographs of this strange ring.
I showed up on Sunday at about 10:30 in the morning and we jumped in my brothers van to follow the path out there. Approx. half the land is taken up by a Solar Farm which the electric company leases from my brother and his wife.
I threw a barrage of questions at my brother as we got out of the van and approached the ring. He said there was never and equipment on the spot or anything else that could have affected the area. The "Ring" is 8 ft. wide and the ring itself has the accelerated growth including where the cut path crosses over the edge of it. The cut area is also growing much faster than any other part of it.
What fascinated me right away was the obvious accelerated growth of the outer ring itself. The path was cut right over it, yet the growth was much faster than the rest of the path.
The accelerated growth in "authentic" crop circles has been well documented as well as other well known cases. I won't speculate on what the cause was, but this area of grass was affected by something and it is quite visible. I have found nothing in nature that could cause this to happen and if what my brother says about the ring during the winter with the snow is true I plan to return to photograph it.