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Man stumbles on round, spinning ‘creek circle’[Canada]
National Post ^
| 18 Dec 2008
| Kate Scroggins
Posted on 12/23/2008 8:20:07 AM PST by BGHater
A Mississauga mans photo of a bizarre creek circlea 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. Taylors 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 wasnt manmade. Not possible, she said. Unless it was a little guy from Mars up there, or a flying saucer or something. Thats what I thought at first. But dont call in the ufologists just yet.

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TOPICS: Outdoors; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: canada; circle; creek; water
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To: BGHater; eddy; Eddie; Flo; ice
Hey. Eddie, Eddy, Ice and Flo. Check this out!
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:39:51 AM PST
by
fso301
To: SouthTexas
Somebody lost a tar to their ice car! At 15' diameter, it's probably from something BIG!
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:42:14 AM PST
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
To: mylife
The Swirling Eddies I used to have one of their CD's L0LWill you also admit to having this guys album?
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:44:05 AM PST
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
To: Travis T. OJustice; tubebender
That’s charp dude, does it have hydraulics???
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:45:27 AM PST
by
SouthTexas
(And a Blessed Christmas to all!)
To: SouthTexas
I figure this guy found the dumping spot for the waste from Crop Circles
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:45:41 AM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: Travis T. OJustice
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:45:51 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: BGHater
—maybe it’s related to those streams in the Black Hills that the locals tell you freeze “from the bottom up”—
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:45:53 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: Travis T. OJustice
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:47:08 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: SouthTexas
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:47:15 AM PST
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
To: tubebender; Travis T. OJustice
I figure this guy found the dumping spot for the waste from Crop Circles THAT'S the ticket!
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:48:19 AM PST
by
SouthTexas
(And a Blessed Christmas to all!)
To: tubebender; SouthTexas
I figure this guy found the dumping spot for the waste from Crop Circles ROFL!!!!. Or maybe where another UFO crash landed.
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:49:41 AM PST
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
To: Travis T. OJustice; SouthTexas
Another possibility is the Crick Channel moved and uncovered a long forgotten ICBM silo...
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posted on
12/23/2008 8:55:32 AM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: Travis T. OJustice
Would that be an older Eddy, or a current one?
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:20:47 AM PST
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: tubebender
I always wanted one of those in my back yard. :(
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:21:47 AM PST
by
SouthTexas
(And a Blessed Christmas to all!)
To: Travis T. OJustice
Out west, it’s a rumor that Coastal Eddy is dating Offshore Flo...
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:22:52 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
("Zero"..STILL using that stupid "Office of The President Elect" podium....)
To: BGHater; Quix
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:23:36 AM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(This election gave the drunks the keys to the liquor cabinet!)
To: BGHater; martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson
I wouldn't step too close to it...
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:27:13 AM PST
by
mikrofon
(Near the Stargate studio in Vancouver?)
To: SouthTexas
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:33:08 AM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: tubebender
Maybe when Obama starts giving them away, we can get one!
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posted on
12/23/2008 9:36:52 AM PST
by
SouthTexas
(And a Blessed Christmas to all!)
To: Travis T. OJustice
And that's his sofa?
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:59:24 AM PST
by
Othniel
(Kirk: Don't trust them. Don't believe them. Spock: They're dying. Kirk: LET THEM DIE.)
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