Thomas de Charentenay
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Some walkers think they have discovered a site whose origin goes back to the deepest times. Each of their explorations raises new enigmas: for them, it is a "megalithic" site as important as the one of Carnac. They called it "Le Cadran du Pilat".

Two years ago, Thomas de Charentenay was walking in the forest at an altitude of 1200 metres (3900 foot) near the Pierre des Trois Evêques, in the Pilat massif.

Curious, Thomas ventures beyond the path, skirts a series of rocks, and mechanically, begins to count his steps. Surprise: it is the same distance between each stone: 12 steps exactly, 10 meters (32.8 foot) each time, and all aligned due East.

Like Carnac or Stonehenge!

This is reminiscent of the Megalithic Yard: the measure that would have been used in prehistoric times to erect sites like Carnac or Stonehenge!

Thomas then contacted Eric Charpentier, a friend who was passionate about mathematics and who detected geometric shapes based on the Pythagorean triangle in certain intersecting alignments.

The mystery thickens: the Stone of the Three Bishops seems to be the epicentre of a large dial, aligned on the winter and summer solstices, and pointing to the main Alpine peaks of the Ecrins and the Meije !


To go further, Thomas De Charentenay created a Facebook site: the "Cadran du Pilat" collective. And federates the passionate, to multiply together the investigations on the ground: No less than 600 aligned or precisely positioned megaliths are counted on the site. According to one statistician, there's only one chance in a hundred thousand that it's random.

Need help to understand

Solar calendar? Prehistoric map? The collective contacts historians and academics to understand... but none is willing to help them. Some see only the action of erosion and chance.

The "Cadran du Pilat" collective invites you to a conference on Saturday 26 May in Saint-Appolinard, to make this discovery public. And seek all the support that could help them to have what they feel is a major prehistoric site recognized.

Translated by Sott.net