Vikings, Phoenicians, Egyptians or the lost tribe of Israel? What? According to author Mark Jager and his Mystic Michigan series of books, Michigan might have been home to these four groups of people at some point. Writing his books on top of mysterious archaeological evidence found in Michigan, Jager tells about a stone circle like that of Stonehenge found on Lake Michigan’s Beaver Island that could have been built by any of these ancient groups. I raised my eyebrow when I read this and wondered why us Michiganders had never heard of such an extraordinary discovery. According to the book, Beaver Island doesn’t want it to be a tourist attraction. There are “thirty-nine stones forming a 397 foot circle.” The stones very in size and as to how the stones got there is the biggest mystery of them all.
My cousin recently started working on Beaver Island in the Lighthouse School so hopefully Michigan’s Otherside will be visiting Beaver Island in the Spring of 2008. She saw and took pictures of the proposed “ Stonehenge” but there didn’t seem to be much to look at. Supposedly much of it is buried.
Stay tuned for updates!!!
Reference
Jager, Mark. Mystic Michigan Part One. 3 rd Ed. Marion: Zosma Publications, 1999.
Written by Amberrose Hammond