Throughout New England, our found mysterious ancient stone chambers built on homesteads

going back as far as pre-colonial times.

Many of these chambers seem so odd that people have come up with all sorts of exotic explanations

for what they might be.

But here on Skeptoid, we don't just stop at being perplexed.

We dig in and find the solution to the mystery.

The mysterious stone chambers of New England are coming right up on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The mysterious stone chambers of New England.

Throughout the states of New England can be found hundreds of stone structures, igloos

of dry stacked local rocks.

For big summer small, most have crumbled many have not.

But what are they?

Who built them?

When?

And for what purpose?

An active community of believers assigns the stone chambers a mystical origin, either a

religious or astronomical one, or even that they were built by a long-lost civilization

that traveled here from Europe centuries before Columbus and then disappeared.

Today, we're going to look at what the legends say about New England's mysterious stone

chambers, and then see how that compares to the traditional historical explanation.

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