Alfred Watkins truly understood
If you haven’t been interested in UFOs and the Supernatural when you are in your early teens what were you doing with your life? Admittedly the 70s were a golden age for wondering if Aliens had really built the Chiswick by-pass and if you could sharpen the top of your pyramid if you put it near some razors. Among these things which seemed to make the world a jolly bit more interesting than ‘Songs of Praise’ or Petrol Price rises, Ley lines stand out as among the more playfully interesting. Forward to 1984 and a friend is doing something on them for his Geography Degree. He tracks down ancient sites in North Staffordshire which all seem to be linked. He then got someone to create a computer programme to create random points [it was 1984, give us a break.] The leyline was straighter than the random points! Oooh eee oooh eee. As he said, we need to do this a thousand times more to check. Others have. This in turn has created a lo...