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What's most widely agreed upon—based on the evidence available—is that the Guidestones are meant to instruct the dazed survivors of some impending apocalypse as they attempt to reconstitute civilization...

Fascinating - I had no idea this existed.

If it was built 1980 the planning should be stored in papers and the craftsmen account as well as the client's name and land owner of the place must be known. It seems the work of a doomsday-prophet's sect! For me it remembers much more to the mystic monolith than to stonehenge or other ancient astronomers buildings - those were in use for hundreds of years and have no dark ominous presence.

@Kreuzberg-Jakob: The original banker who dealt with RC Christain says he has a boxful of notes and papers, but that the founder wanted to remain absolutely anonymous, and the papers may be destroyed on his death. It's in the article. The article also discusses the property rights.

And, even in ancient times the Original Stonehenge had somewhat sinister implications. There's a PBS special in the Secrets of the Dead series about a decapitated body found buried there. Why and how he got there is fascinating, and they go into a bit of the history of Stonehenge.

Never a shortage of surprises in this golden age of communication.

@tabsey: I read somewhere that, to date, carving in stone is actually the longest-surviving, most method of recording information. Lots of media are becoming unreadble within years of their introduction.

I remember Betamax.