WALES – A man from a country called Wales claims to have found a gleaming silver monolith in the uplands around a place called Powys, which is pronounced like the word powers as spoken by an effeminate Englishman. There’s no good reason to suspect that Wales exists, and the man who falsely claims that he did not plant the structure there himself, Craig Muir, sounds like a drunk Australian doing an Irish accent.
According to this fame-seeking liar, he was going on a walk in atrocious weather and just so happened to wander out into a boggy area with no established trail, and just so happened to stumble upon this immaculately clean, obvious art installation.
“When I first saw it, I was a bit taken aback as it looked like some sort of a UFO,” said Muir, a builder who apparently has never seen an image of a UFO, or even heard a description of one, and lives in the fake-sounding town of Hay-on-Wye nearby.
“It seemed like a very fine metallic [material], almost like surgical steel. The steel structure was almost 10ft long and looked perfectly levelled and steady, despite the weather being windy.” He goes on to claim, “There were no obvious tracks around it and one would think that there would be a lot of mess around it, but there wasn’t.” However, after a quick glimpse of the video, which is mostly an inexplicable closeup of his lumpy, damp face, any observer can easily see that the ground is quite disturbed around the base of the monolith, and it’s obvious that someone was moving around it for quite some time, presumably making sure it was level and plumb, and presumably that person is named Craig Muir.
The Reality Register will not be linking to the video, for it is extremely easy to find, and has been featured on the Guardian, the New York Times and every single major news outlet, even though this is an obvious rehash of another obvious hoax back in 2020. In 2020, there was a global pandemic and accompanying hysteria, and the monoliths were a welcome distraction from the state of the world at the time. During the original hoax, there were several monoliths that had appeared nearly simultaneously all over the planet, and this is a single unoriginal hoax in what may very well be a hoax of a country by a man that is obviously of little credibility.
Various reports call him a builder, or a mason, and at least one article has indicated that he comes from a family of welders and metalworkers, which sounds like exactly the kind of guy who would hoax a metal monolith and then publicly compliment its craftsmanship. Mr. Muir is too late to be part of the original fun, and way too early to have any sort of retro cool associated with him.
This publication will always stand for the truth, and we condemn Mr. Muir and his pathetic hoax. If he comes up with an original hoax, we might forgive him, but this is just sad.
Stan Dirkson
