So says Dene Hine, a crop circle hoaxer who complains about others peddling ‘woo woo’ whilst sharing his own. We’ve been particularly interested in following Hine’s repeated claims from January 2024 about third parties apparently ‘dragging’ people with Parkinson’s Disease into crop circles, particularly as it has been repeated in various publications including The Sun. In fact, Hine felt so strongly about this matter that he gave it as a reason why he had retired from the fields. Only to come back a few months later. It meant that much to him. But as we’ve said before, with him it’s nothing to do with morals, it’s all about grabbing attention, financial reward and whatever is on offer. Anyhow…

At this point we will make it very clear that we share Hine’s conclusion: crop circles do not offer any verifiable cure to any illness or condition. We firmly believe that any temporary upturn in the health of any visitor to a crop circle is either due to unrelated matters or the placebo effect.

Nonetheless, we believe Hine has been deliberately disingenuous with his choice of wording as it plays to his narrative that crop circle researchers are performing nefarious acts to line their own pockets.

Let’s explore this more.

In 2019 Lucy Pringle and James Lyons authored The Energies of Crop Circles: The Science and Power of a Mysterious Intelligence. 

The book explores the effects that some people claim to have experienced after visiting crop circles. It also examines the effects people claim to have observed on animals and electrical equipment inside crop circles and after visiting them.

Pringle writes in the prologue:

‘We must ask the question, “is this really so?” “Do crop circles have mysterious energies?” And further, “Can these energies heal us?” The answer to these questions is “Yes.” Having had an unexpected personal healing experience in 1990, and having had many others reported to me, I am left with no other option than to say, “Yes, it does happen.” 

In Chapter 1 she writes:

‘Occasionally permanent healing can occur as a result of visiting crop circles, but the majority of reports fall into the negative list of effects: visitors to crop circles automatically expect to feel well and therefore are surprised and dismayed when the opposite occurs … However, while the greater number of healing effects are unfortunately only temporary in nature, they are still worth discussing…’

The book details a number of instances in which people with a range of medical conditions and illnesses have experienced some permanent, but overwhelmingly temporary relief from their ailments. She notices, in the Prologue, that ‘arthritus and rheumatism sufferers seem to gain noticeable but temporary relief’.

Within Chapter 10, Pringle shares anecdotes from crop circle visitors who claim to have experienced:

• A feeling of being thrown to the ground
• Nightmares
• Sore throat
• Sore eyes
• Panic attacks
• Vibrating fingers
• Disruption to menstrual cycle
• Weariness
• Disrupted sleep
• Inability to focus mentally
• Depression
• Brain fog, like ‘treacle’
• Leg pain, spasms and aches
• Dizziness
• Nausea
• Cold hands
• Hot feet
• Feeling faint
• Shakiness
• Extreme hunger
• Nosebleeds
• Gout
• Extreme thirst
• Chest pressure
• Disorientation
• Dehydration
• Craving for alcohol, specifically red wine
• Feelings that time has ‘slipped’ into the past

Further negative effects are detailed in Chapter 4:

• Chronic tinnitus and a worsening on subsequent visits to crop circles
• Dental pain leading to the development of abscesses

From Hine’s hysterical rants towards Pringle, you may suspect that she has reeled off a long list of people she believes to have been healed as a result of visiting crop circles. In fact, she mentions just three, one of them being herself! No evidence is presented by Pringle to justify her confidence.

In the Prologue, Pringle claims

‘I had hurt my right shoulder playing a ferocious set of mixed tennis doubles the previous evening. I had been unable to use my right hand to brush my teeth that evening, as the pain in raising my arm was considerable.

‘As I was sitting, relaxing [inside a crop circle close to Winchester in July 1990], I became aware of energy rippling through my shoulders … I stayed where I was and let the energy continue to flow until my shoulder was completely mobile and free of pain.’

In Chapter 1, Pringle shares the testimony of Sue Bowness who went on a crop circle tour in 2010, incidentally with damaged hamstrings in both legs from the previous December:

‘As soon as I reached the road (after visiting the formation) and took a few strides, I realised I was no longer hobbling but walking evenly, with my stride lengthened to what it had been before the injuries.’

Within Chapter 4, artist Jennifer Denning claims that following her visit to the ‘Mayan Calendar’ at Silbury Hill in 2004 her ‘macular degeneration’ had been halted and her ‘eyesight was normal!’

No. 

Neither Pringle or Lyons claim that people can be permanently cured of Parkinson’s as a result of visiting a crop circle.

Pringle initially became aware that people with Parkinson’s Disease may experience positive effects in crop circles after a friend visited the ‘Torus Knot’ at Alton Priors in 1997. In Chapter 8 she writes:

‘She entered the circle with a friend and experienced a temporary but wonderful physical respite from the exhausting and continuous shaking after sitting in the center for about twenty minutes. Subsequently she did not shake for twenty-four hours. The physical relief was enormous during that period, as was the amazing feeling of well-being that went along with the physical respite.’

Pringle conducted a series of ‘study days’ on an annual basis to see what effects people with Parkinson’s Disease would experience from visiting a crop circle:

David Greenwood, a Parkinson’s sufferer states in Chapter 8:

‘The tremor stopped after I had entered the [Barbury Castle, 2011] crop formation and had walked approximately 30 metres on the laid crop in the direction it had been laid. A slight tremor in my hand returned after I had finished walking the formation.’

Chapter 8 also refers to Gill Puttick who

‘had great difficulty walking up the tramline toward the circle [Liddington, 2012]. However, after being in the circle, she led the way out of the formation striding along the tramlines without any problems whatsoever. In addition, while inside the circle she had been able to get up out of the floppy canvas-seated chair (not everyone could) but after the double control tests at the perimeter of the field, she was unable to do so.’

The same lady is referred to again in Chapter 8:

‘Gill [Puttick], who had trouble walking down the tramline [Overton, 2013], strode out of the field without any problems.’

Also mentioned in Chapter 8 is Tina Martin, who states:

‘The major thing I noticed in the circle [Savernake Forest, 2014] was that my right hand (which had been shaking very badly when the initial tests were done) was completely still … [it] is never completely still like that.’

It is clearly stated by Pringle and Lyons that these effects proved to be temporary.

No. 

Pringle’s subjects are willing volunteers. 

Not that we are aware of. We are more than willing to be corrected if we are wrong. But don’t let us interfere when it comes to Dene Hine misrepresenting the words of an old lady.