A podcaster friend of mine, Michelle, gave me a skeptical look one time when I mentioned

crop circles that were made by aliens.

Well, she said, a friend of mine used to make them, and it got picked up by a reputable channel,

and they thought it was real.

Now, I never knew how to feel about crop circles, to be honest with you.

I always thought aliens would have a better way to communicate with us instead of making

circles in large fields, unless it meant something more like an alien spacecraft leaving

that pattern behind, after landing on it or something.

Then I started learning about these cases and some of them opened up at least

some level of curiosity. For example, a nearby strange light in the sky right before the crop

circle appeared, or animals suddenly reacting strange around the time of the discovery. But it turns out

that's just the start, at least for the Shumava region in the Czech Republic.

There people spoke of giants, translucent figures, objects floating in the sky,

and legends that all seem to point to the possibility that there's something from another planet visiting them.

So today we're going to go to the Czech Republic to explore the Shumava region and look at its

historical, archaeological, and paranormal phenomena.

My name is Edwin, and here's a horror story.

Our story begins at about a thousand meters above sea level on a mountain ridge known as Vali, near the village of Populna.

Now there existed a pure historic hill fort, Aubrey Harad, also known as Giant's Castle.

They date this back to sometime between the 7th and 4th centuries BC, and one of the

most important signs of Celtic settlement in Bohemia. But what makes this so special is that it's the

highest archaeological monument in the entire Czech Republic. Now, I'm not too familiar with Celtic

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