Just northeast of Atlanta is the lowly town of Elberton , Georgia — the self - proclaimed " Granite Capital of the World . " For over four decade the Georgia Guidestones , a hugegranitemonument some visit " America ’s Stonehenge , " sit at Elbert County ’s highest point , in perpetual Libra , in an former moo-cow grass . The history surrounding the Guidestones is shrouded in privateness , and from the very daytime of its unveiling , conspiracy theorists have tried to find both the significance behind the repository and the mystery man who commission it and pay for its construction .
When and Why Were the Georgia Guidestones Built?
The Guidestones was custom - built in 1979 for a human who called himself " Robert C. Christian . " Christian claim to represent a group of " loyal Americans " who had been figure out on the designs and specifications for 20 years . Christian engage Joe Fendley of the Elberton Granite Finishing Company to build the Georgia memorial , and worked with Elberton banker Wyatt C. Martin to handle the finances . Both Martin and Fendley — the only locals ever to converge Christian in person — were swear to secrecy about his true identity , and to this day have never broken that vow and disclosed the creator of America ’s Stonehenge .
Although this granite monument was destroyed in 2022 ( more on that afterward ) , it included four vertical slab arranged around a fifth center gemstone , finished off with a horizontal finishing touch , all in never-ending balance . The slabs behave as a sundial , calendar and clock . When the small-arm was unveiled , local pastors immediatelydecriedit as the piece of work of Satan .
The Georgia Guidestones Always Spawned Conspiracy Theories
From the start , the Georgia Guidestones was a lightning rod for conspiracy theories , let in claim that Christian was actually Ted Turner and that theIlluminaticommissioned it . The pseudonym R.C. Christian also has been enounce to reference theRosicrucians , or Order of the Rosy Cross , a occult club that accentuate reason and harmony with nature . The monument was defaced with spray paint on a couple of affair before security cameras were put in , but maybe the strange injury to the report of the Guidestones came in 2022 when a campaigner in the 2022 Georgia Republican governor ’s primarycalledthe Guidestones " Satanic " in a campaign ad , and call for their removal .
The Georgia Guidestones monument was controversial for its orphic origins , certainly — was it some sort of astronomical calendar ? — but the inscriptions on the granite monument made some people queasy . The monument got its name from the copestone , on which " Let These Be Guidestones to an Age of Reason " was etched in ancient languages like Babylonian cuneiform — one of the earliest systems of writing . On each of the vertical granite slabs , 10 commandment , or " guides , " were inscribe in eight different voice communication , including English , Swahili , Russian and Arabic . They order thing like " Protect people and nations with fair law and just courts , " " uphold humanity under 500,000,000 , " " poise personal rights with social duties " and " Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — get out room for nature . "
The Unsolved Bombing of the Georgia Guidestones
Seems sensible enough . But still , the Georgia Guidestones repository did n’t baby-sit well with some apparently , because an early first light attack on the site July 6 , 2022 , with an explosive gimmick destroyed much of the capstone , rendering the site so unstable that it was break up later that day .
Elberton Mayor Daniel Graves hadthis to say : " My initial reaction was heartbreak and angriness , defeat , " Graves said . " And I think that ’s consistent with the residential area ’s response . "
A surveillancevideoreleased by theGeorgia Bureau of Investigationshowed a machine fleeing the view after the explosion . No defendant have been name in the shell , and no motif for bomb the monument is known . As of this composition , the Georgia Guidestones monument remains permanently closed . The Georgia Bureau of Investigation persist in the hunt for the culprit .
