Dave Miller

Buried meticulously and ceremonially around the foundations of rock formations aligned across Clover Hollow Mountain are strange and creative portable artifacts that will stretch the imagination of the most hardened critics. They are carved with the same artistic and overall method as the permanent megalithic structures they are found buried beneath. These ‘mini-me’ portables are smaller pieces of art and come in all sizes from large and heavy rocks down to talisman or pocket-size. They are not tools or utilitarian in nature but more animistic, artistic, and culturally significant because of their ceremonial or religious connotations. The larger rocks are buried around the bases of the stone monuments and the smaller pieces are stuck in every nook and cranny suggesting

A paradox of unparalleled proportion is coming to life on the side of Clover Hollow Mountain. The first clues suggesting an ancient civilization might have once existed here comes in the way of high resolution photographic evidence of stone panels that are abstract, creative, unique, artistic, clever, crumbling, and alien in nature. The conundrum we are faced with here is whether we recognize these numerous stone panels as one-hundred percent natural and just randomly occurring in this one spot, or are we looking at bizarre and cryptic pieces of art created by an ancient culture of unknown origin? Pareidolia To get a clearer picture on what might be happening in Clover Hollow, we need to understand the phenomena of pareidolia

The Appalachian Orogeny is one of the geological mountain building events that created the Appalachian Mountains. This orogeny occurred about 325 million years ago and was caused by Africa colliding with North America at a time when these continents did not exist in their current forms. It applied massive stress on what is today the Eastern Seaboard of North America, forming a wide and high mountain chain. The Appalachians likely once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps, Andes, and the Rocky Mountains before they were eroded down to what they are today. The Appalachian Mountains are some of the oldest mountains in the world. Age of the Mammals About sixty-six million years ago, the Appalachian Mountains had been