In November of 2020, a 9-foot-tall metal structure was discovered in a very remote part of the Utah desert. No one was certain how it got there, or who built it, which made it even more perplexing when it disappeared without a trace days later… only to show up in Romania. But this monolith wasn’t one of a kind. Dozens have been popping up all over the world and continue to mysteriously appear, even in 2024. Leaving us to wonder, are these art installations, or do they serve a more… supernatural purpose?
Utah Monolith. Courtesy of Slate.com and Zak Podmore/ The Salt Lake Tribune
The Romanian monolith. Courtesy of The Art Newspaper and Twitter
The California monolith. Courtesy of The Atascadero News
John McCracken’s piece titled Magic in 2008. Installation at Napa Valley, CA 2009. Image taken by Grant Delin. Courtesy of ArtForum.com
The Las Vegas monolith. Courtesy of The New York Times, LVMPD and X
Episode Source Material
WEB/SOCIAL MEDIA/MESSAGE BOARDS
- A mysterious monolith appears near Las Vegas. Why? It’s Anyone’s Guess. (online news article).
- Welsh metal monolith appears four years after similar find in Utah desert. (online news article).
- Mystery of metal monolith at least partially solved as sleuths figure out its location. (online news article).
- Artist or aliens? Mystery surrounds Utah monolith’s appearance and disappearance. (online news article).
- What’s that monolith in Wales? How it compares to a one found in a Utah canyon in 2020. (online news article).
- The Saga of the Monolith Isn’t Over Yet. (online news article).
- Trying to Make Sense of the Mystery Monolith Craze of 2020. (online news article).
- Visitors to Utah’s mysterious obelisk left behind human waste, scarred the land. (online news article).
- Mysterious monoliths are appearing across the world. Here’s what we know. (online news article).
- “This is wild”: mysterious monolith found in Utah desert. (YouTube video).
- Utah Highway Patrol (Facebook page).
- Now a mysterious Arthur C Clark-style monolith appears in ROMANIA after unexplained metal vanished from Utah – so who (or what) put it there? (online news article).
- 2001: A Space Odyssey – the Dawn of Man. (feature film clip via YouTube).
- Aliens erected a monolith in Nevada? Not likely. (online news article).
- That Mysterious Monolith in the Utah Desert? It’s Gone, Officials Say. (online news article).
- Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah? (online news article).
- IN SEARCH OF… THE ART OF JOHN MCCRACKEN. (website).
- The Utah monolith probably wasn’t the work of aliens, but it’s still a mystery. (online news article).
- Mysterious monolith materializes in Seattle’s Magnuson Park on January 1, 2001. (website).
- Utah monolith. (Wikipedia article).
- 38°20’35.1″N 109°39’58.3″W (Google maps location).
- Dacian Fortress of the Orastie Mountains. (Webpage).
- Ceahlau National Park. (Webpage).
- Mysterious monolith is back in Atascadero – and another one just popped up in SLO County. (online news article).
- Golden monolith appears in Columbia after more towers popped up around the world. (online news article).
- List of works similar to the 2020 Utah monolith. (Wikipedia article).
- Could the metal monolith recently discovered by biologists in a remote area of Utah be of extraterrestrial origin? (Quora thread).
- Reflective Monolith in Las Vegas Removed By Police – What We Know About the Strange Structure And Others Like It. (online news article).
- The Long and Crazy Story of the Utah Monolith. (online article).