Thread by @MoundLore

There are scars across the Southeastern U.S.

Shallow, elliptical, rimmed with sand.
Over half a million.Each one tilted the same way, like something swept the land.

They’re called the Carolina Bays.

And to this day, no one can explain them.

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They stretch from Maryland to Florida, some over a mile wide.

But here’s the strange part:
Almost every one points the same direction NW to SE.

Not random. Not chaotic.
They look like impact shadows.
But there’s no crater.

No debris.
No blast.

Mainstream geologists say wind and thaw shaped them during the last Ice Age.

It’s neat but it doesn’t explain the precision.

The scale.
The symmetry.
Or why we don’t see new ones forming.

Then there’s the cosmic theory.

Some researchers believe these were caused by a meteor swarm ~12,800 years ago the same time mammothsw vanished and the Younger Dryas cooling began.

They say the impacts hit ice sheets, not rock….leaving no craters but massive flooding and fire.

Indigenous oral traditions from the Southeast speak of sky fire.

Of animals dying, forests burning, and waters rising.

One Choctaw elder called them the “tracks of the sky serpent.”

Some stories remember something science still can’t prove.

We’ve mapped the Bays by satellite.
Cored them. Measured them. Modeled them.

Every theory has holes.
No one can explain why hundreds of thousands of ovals all face the same way.

Or why they only exist in this region.

My guess….thawing and wind.
But i wonder.

Maybe it was wind.
Maybe fire.

Maybe something we’ve forgotten.
But these shapes inspire myths.

Too quiet to be myth.
And too vast to be coincidence.

The land remembers something we don’t.

Tell me your theory.