Date Reported: 24 July 2025
Location: Long Man, Wilmington, East Sussex

Photograph by Barry Reynolds

Here’s a crop circle we’re not too sure about. Hence, we’re not yet going to consign it to the hoaxed or commissioned brackets without any further information. Maybe all will become clear at some point in the not too distant future, though maybe not.

This pair of feet, together with an accompanying splat, were initially reported from underneath the Long Man of Wilmington, in East Sussex, on 24th July 2025. The first mention we saw of it was on the Instagram account of The Stone Club that same day.

A pair of giant footprints for a giant on a hillside. Okay, nice idea, but a bit naff at the same time.

Wilmington Long Man, July 2025. Photograph by Barry Reynolds.

Then, in the middle of the following night, an advertisement came up on YouTube for me. Reflo sportswear and their advertising campaign built around the previous weekend’s British Open golf championship at Portrush, near the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland (or the north of Ireland, if you prefer). Part of the reel contained a pair of giant footprints on a beach, and the campaign was named ‘Giants’. Alongside the reel was a representation of the mythological giant Finn McCool, drawn out in sand by none other than Manu; the sand artist who made a beach companion to the wonky spider hoax by Dene Hine and his Team Ten Watt halfwits at Cerne Abbas. Obvious questions are there to be asked.

A week on and still nobody has claimed responsibility. 

We will leave you on this one with croppie Barry Reynolds’ ground report as it’s a throwback to when people cared about the circles:

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Description: a pair of feet, each with five toes

First seen on Thursday 24th July 2025

Visited and photographed at midday Friday 25th July 2025.

Weather between Wednesday night 23rd July and Friday 25th midday was warm and sunny with little to no rain.

Crop was very ripe and mature but appeared to be shorter than normal. Possibly due to unusually dry spring / early summer.

Formation was on a north facing, small hillock at the southern end of the field, immediately at the base of the Long Man of Wilmington.

There is no doubt that the formation represents a pair of bare feet, both with five toes. It is situated absolutely perfectly on the hillock so that the feet are visible as soon as you arrive at the Long Man car park and remain visible as you walk toward the figure.

As you start to climb Windover Hill, the feet temporarily disappear from sight. When they reappear and you get close to the side and ultimately the head of the Long Man, it becomes quite difficult to ascertain what they are. There is no doubt that they are meant to be visible as you approach and are below the Long Man.

• The big toes are approx. 2m / 6’ wide and are by no means circular. The other toes gradually diminish in size until you reach the little toes which are approx. 90cm / 3’ wide.
• The ball of the foot would be in the region of approx. 5m to 7m in width with the heel being maybe 4m to 6m.
• The lay was clockwise around the heel, down the outside of the instep to the ball, clockwise around the ball and then back up the inside of the instep to the heel.
• There were no signs of nodal bending or expulsion cavities but that would be because the crop was at maturation and was devoid of moisture.
• There were no crease marks visible on the crop most of which had been laid at ground level.
• There were no visible signs of trampling or damage.
• It is quite possible that no-one else had entered the formation prior to my arrival as there were no visible tracks through the crop from the pathway alongside the field.
• The right foot was away from the tramlines with no visible signs of entry and so I did not enter it.
• There was only one part of the formation that crossed a tramline and that was the left big toe. At that point, the lay of the crop left the general clockwise swirl and partly headed in the opposite direction.
• On the opposite side of the tramline where a small portion of the big toe had been laid, some crop had been pulled into the flow from behind, and from within, standing crop.
• In the feet themselves, the crop was only lightly laid and there were many standing stems.

Whilst the obvious conclusion is that the pair of feet are manmade simply because of their location, we should not forget that this field had its first visitation some 35 years ago in 1990 when a ‘broken’ dumbbell appeared. The field immediately to the west had an impressive yin-yang symbol in 1995 and then in 2014 two formations appeared. To the north a complex pentagram, and to the east a Celtic cross type formation. 2021 saw some rather odd shapes just to the north of the 2014 Celtic cross.