Mystery mounds in the U.S. are now open to the public
The US's 2,000-year-old mystery mounds
2 000 year-old mounds from a civilization that left no written record opened for public viewing in January, 2025.
"There was a sweat lodge or some kind of purification place there," said our guide, Brad Lepper, senior archaeologist for the Ohio History Connection's World Heritage Program (OHC), as he pointed to the circle. I looked inside to see a perfectly manicured lawn – a putting green. A tall flag marked a hole at its centre.
That's because from 1910 through 2024, The Octagon had been used as a golf course. But on 1 January 2025, this ancient, enigmatic site reopened to visitors for the first time in more than a century.
Fuck golf.
At least the Spiro Mounds just got horrifically looted, not desecrated by lazy shits in their go karts day drinking. (And then the racists had to have the fake runestone, just like Kensington, because it had to have been white people who built these structures, right?)