So some people in the early 20th Century got tricked by something as simple as some kids posing with cardboard cut-touts. Don't start getting cocky and thinking we as a species got any less gullible after that. Even today there are those more stubborn UFOlogists yes, that's a real term still ready and willing to argue that crop circles are the creation of visiting extraterrestrial leaving messages. In flattened corn. That's a particularly odd choice of hill to die on when the whole phenomena has be debunked multiple times, by almost everyone who has been involved with it, with the reports of such and other media depictions of crop circles since all about how the thing is just a big hoax. And yet the belief in crop circles persists. Documented cases have substantially increased from the 1970s to the present day, but in 1991 a couple of hoaxers, Bower and Chorley, claimed they did the majority of those in England by just flattening fields with bits of wood. It's either that or stoned wallabies most of the time, never UFOs.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
