In 1979 a well-dressed man walked into a Georgia granite company, gave a fake name, and commissioned a 19-foot granite monument carved with ten commandments for surviving the apocalypse in eight languages. Nobody ever learned who he really was. In July 2022, an unidentified figure blew the whole thing up on camera and vanished into a silver sedan.
A full-episode overview: what the monument was, the commandments it carried, and the 2022 explosion that finally destroyed it. Start here for the whole strange arc.
Randall Sullivan's definitive 2009 feature, the deep dive everyone else cribs from. The astronomy is so precise a University of Georgia astronomer had to be brought in to align the stones.
The verifiable core: dimensions, the eight languages, the astronomical windows, and the sourced accounts of the commission and the bombing. Your anchor amid the conspiracy fog.
A sober, research-heavy attempt to actually identify 'R.C. Christian' — running down the leading candidates and the banker who claims to know the truth and swore to take it to his grave.
'We know where they are and what they say, but everything else is hotly debated.' A concise look at why the ten guidelines mean wildly different things to different readers.
The actual text carved into the stone — 'Maintain humanity under 500,000,000,' 'Unite humanity with a living new language' — the lines that made the monument both revered and feared.
July 6, 2022 — security cameras catch a person planting a device and fleeing in a silver car. The state demolished what was left the same day. The bomber has never been caught.