Man stumbles on round, spinning ‘creek circle’[Canada]

National Post ^ | 18 Dec 2008 | Kate Scroggins

[BGHater]

A Mississauga man’s photo of a bizarre “creek circle”—a round piece of ice, spinning, on the surface of a frozen creek — has become an Internet hit.

Brook Tyler,a research director and amateur photographer,stumbled across the six-foot-wide circle on Saturday morning, as he strolled across Sheridan Creek in the Rattray Marsh Conservation area.

“It was a perfectly round circle with about two inches of slush and water around the sides, and it was spinning,” he said. “I was so excited to see if I could capture the movement.”

Mr. Tyler, 49, photographed the mysterious rotating disk, which he called a “creek circle” as a tongue-in-cheek jab at crop circles, unusual designs that have randomly appeared in farmers’ fields, and posted it to the Flickr photo-sharing Web site.

In the days since, it has drawn considerable attention online. BlogTO featured Mr. Taylor’s photo, and nearly 150,000 people viewed it on Digg, and debated its potentially paranormal origins.

Mr. Tyler insists he did not alter the photo, aside from brightening it a bit, and says the ice circle was not manmade.

“The ice was actually too thin on the creek to walk on and there was no footprints on the ice. The creek had just frozen,” he said.

This is not the first “creek circle” to appear in Canada. Eight years ago, Joan LaForty stumbled across a similar phenomenon her backyard in Delta, Ont.

The 15-foot-wide spinning circle of ice drew quite a crowd in the small eastern Ontario farming town. “It was nature or environment or something. It wasn’t manmade. Not possible,” she said. “Unless it was a little guy from Mars up there, or a flying saucer or something. That’s what I thought at first.” But don’t call in the ufologists just yet.

[fso301]

Hey. Eddie, Eddy, Ice and Flo. Check this out!

[Travis T. OJustice]

Somebody lost a tar to their ice car!

At 15' diameter, it's probably from something BIG!

[Travis T. OJustice]

The Swirling Eddies I used to have one of their CD's L0L

Will you also admit to having this guys album?

[SouthTexas]

That’s charp dude, does it have hydraulics???

[tubebender]

I figure this guy found the dumping spot for the waste from Crop Circles

[mylife]

Nope. cuz I dont L0L

[rellimpank]

—maybe it’s related to those streams in the Black Hills that the locals tell you freeze “from the bottom up”—

[mylife]

Euc!

[Travis T. OJustice]

Si!

[SouthTexas]

I figure this guy found the dumping spot for the waste from Crop Circles

THAT'S the ticket!

[Travis T. OJustice]

I figure this guy found the dumping spot for the waste from Crop Circles

ROFL!!!!. Or maybe where another UFO crash landed.

[tubebender]

Another possibility is the Crick Channel moved and uncovered a long forgotten ICBM silo...

[stuartcr]

Would that be an older Eddy, or a current one?

[SouthTexas]

I always wanted one of those in my back yard. :(

[ErnBatavia]

Out west, it’s a rumor that Coastal Eddy is dating Offshore Flo...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

BTTT!

[mikrofon]

I wouldn't step too close to it...

[tubebender]

LOL...So do I...

[SouthTexas]

Maybe when Obama starts giving them away, we can get one!

[Othniel]

And that's his sofa?