Debunkers said: Drunk hedgehogs of course

It was August 22, 1678 a farmer said a “Mowing Devil” made a circular pattern in a crop of oats—overnight.

“it fell out, that very Night, the Crop of Oats shew’d as if it had been all of a flame…no Mortal Man was able to do the like”

Debunkers said: Drunk hedgehogs of course.

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Honeystreet, nr Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, July 2011.

No footprints in the mud, 16 hours from farmer last visit to morning discovery.