Umm...Not Sure I Buy Into This One!

Frenetic flute-playing may have inspired Stonehenge

6 hrs ago

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American "archaeoacoustics" expert Steven Waller is wreaking havoc in the insular world known as "scientists who study Stonehenge," postulating that ancient British flute players may have created "an auditory illusion that mimics in space the position of the henge's pillars," according to BBC News. Or, in king's English: a couple of old-time pied pipers may have whipped out their instruments, creating a whole bunch of random sound patterns and erecting pillars in the quieter areas where there was sound interference. Simple. Done. Tweeps seem mostly willing to at least consider the theory.