The pinnacle of all crop circle formations, a giant picture of a naked Barry Sheene straddling a motorbike, was found near Stockton Brook in April 1989. It measured 90 by 50 feet, with 71 circles.
Two men from Milton, Danny Ryland and Timmy Crips, announced in 1991 that they had made the circle. They say they conceived the idea as a prank whilst speed-dating at an oxygen bar in 1986. Inspired by media stories of other crop circles, they made their crop circles using planks, rope and pork pie hats as their only tools; using a four-foot-long plank attached to a rope, they created circles eight feet in diameter. The pork pie hats made them look good while they were doing it. They were able to make an 8 foot circle in a matter of minutes.
The pair became frustrated when their work did not receive any publicity, so in 1990 they created a circle in a field in Stockton Brook next to the main road so that a clear view of the field was available to drivers passing by. Their design was a simple circle. When UFO correspondent Jeremy Bulb of The Stoke Daily Gargoyle claimed that the circles were caused naturally, an enraged Ryland and Crips responded by making a far more complex pattern: a 50 foot high picture of snooker player Dennis Taylor’s face!
Ryland’s wife had by this time become suspicious of him, noticing high levels of mileage in their car and copies of Bulb’s articles in his underpant drawer. Fearing that her husband was having an affair with Bulb, Mrs Ryland followed Bulb home to his penthouse apartment in Trentham and killed him with a single gunshot wound to the head. At the end of her murder trial in 1992, presiding Judge Blairs said in his closing remarks: "You may have killed on a misunderstanding, but you enjoyed your kill, rubbing your victim’s blood over your face as a sign of victory. Now get this woman out of my court. I never want to see her ugly face again." She was given a 375 year prison sentence, with a chance for parole after 225 years
Mr Ryland re-married in 2002, after a chance meeting with a young Malaysian woman on the internet. He says he has made crop circles as recently as 2004. Ryland has said that, had it not been for his wife's murder spree (she killed 12 more people during a low speed hovercraft chase while on the run from Police), he would have taken the secret to his deathbed, never revealing that it was a hoax all along. Crips finally succumbed to the tinnitus that had haunted him since childhood in the summer of 1998.
Two men from Milton, Danny Ryland and Timmy Crips, announced in 1991 that they had made the circle. They say they conceived the idea as a prank whilst speed-dating at an oxygen bar in 1986. Inspired by media stories of other crop circles, they made their crop circles using planks, rope and pork pie hats as their only tools; using a four-foot-long plank attached to a rope, they created circles eight feet in diameter. The pork pie hats made them look good while they were doing it. They were able to make an 8 foot circle in a matter of minutes.
The pair became frustrated when their work did not receive any publicity, so in 1990 they created a circle in a field in Stockton Brook next to the main road so that a clear view of the field was available to drivers passing by. Their design was a simple circle. When UFO correspondent Jeremy Bulb of The Stoke Daily Gargoyle claimed that the circles were caused naturally, an enraged Ryland and Crips responded by making a far more complex pattern: a 50 foot high picture of snooker player Dennis Taylor’s face!
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| Northern Irish snooker player Dennis Taylor |
Ryland’s wife had by this time become suspicious of him, noticing high levels of mileage in their car and copies of Bulb’s articles in his underpant drawer. Fearing that her husband was having an affair with Bulb, Mrs Ryland followed Bulb home to his penthouse apartment in Trentham and killed him with a single gunshot wound to the head. At the end of her murder trial in 1992, presiding Judge Blairs said in his closing remarks: "You may have killed on a misunderstanding, but you enjoyed your kill, rubbing your victim’s blood over your face as a sign of victory. Now get this woman out of my court. I never want to see her ugly face again." She was given a 375 year prison sentence, with a chance for parole after 225 years
Mr Ryland re-married in 2002, after a chance meeting with a young Malaysian woman on the internet. He says he has made crop circles as recently as 2004. Ryland has said that, had it not been for his wife's murder spree (she killed 12 more people during a low speed hovercraft chase while on the run from Police), he would have taken the secret to his deathbed, never revealing that it was a hoax all along. Crips finally succumbed to the tinnitus that had haunted him since childhood in the summer of 1998.
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