Croppie Gossip: Spare A Thought For Mr Hine

As much as this website is very often written with tongue firmly in cheek, there are occasions when we need to pause and reflect with honest seriousness. The deaths of Janet Ossebaard and Michael Glickman are two such examples. And now we have a third: over on his Facebook group, Dene Hine — Team Ten Watt supremo — has announced his retirement from making crop circles after suffering a stroke.

Yes, really. Look:

Of course, it always horrible when someone suffers a stroke, no matter who they are. But, are we buying it? Afterall, this is the same individual who has repeatedly said they’ve retired since 2018. The same man who told newspapers crop circles had ended — like he was the only one out in the fields — due to his concerns over the war in Ukraine. He also said he’d retired because people with Parkison’s Disease are apparently being ‘dragged’ into crop circles in search of a cure. Yes, the very same individual who was telling others he was also suffering from a ‘cancerous growth’.

Poor Mr Hine, so out of strength and off balance he was seen on a beach in Cornwall not very long ago making a large sand circle. Don’t believe us? Again, look:

So, are we swallowing this story about him being all weak and feeble? We call bullshit when we see it, and here we are seeing bullshit so we are going to call it (especially having seen his TikTok account where he seems perfectly mobile when he’s filming in the woods and pointing his phone creepily at a young lady working in a chip shop).

Isn’t it strange that Hine is pleading his retirement once again, when eyes have been on him over his role in the awful ‘jester’ hoax. Oddly enough, his eyes were on our Crop Circle Explorer Instagram account when we first posted a still of it, yet Hine never usually looks at our story — and neither does the ‘recovering artist’ Harry Pack, whose work is suspiciously like the ‘jester’, yet he too suddenly popped up that same day.

How weird too that Hine seems to have been extremely closely linked to the design of the hoax that appeared near the Culliford Tree Barrow just a few weeks ago.

Isn’t it also peculiar that there is a hoaxed crop circle currently sat in a field in an as yet undisclosed location. It looks very much like the symbol on the side of the alleged UFO in a fresco at the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo.

Given that Hine has it slapped over his own personal Facebook wall, we can’t help but wonder if he has something to hide here as well. And isn’t it bizarre that Hamish Jacobs, a man who spends his life ridiculing the idea that crop circles are anything mysterious, suddenly pops up as the innocent bystander to draw that comparison between the crop circle and that symbol in the fresco. Wow, it must be paranormal. Would he do that for anyone but his bestie, thereby drawing attention away from Hine until a safer date?

Call us cynical, but isn’t the real situation here that whilst Hine and his Team Ten Watt crowd all like the attention they gain from shouting about their creations, on the inside they’re trembling until the harvest comes in. Just remember the panic they were all in over the ‘jester’ hoax’ after their photographer Billy Breen dropped them in it by getting to that thing before its location was made public.

So there it is. Dene and team … liars and mystery weavers. Who would have thought it. Well, okay, it’s what we’ve been saying all along.