There have been a lot of tears shed over the recent crop circle at Weir Farm, underneath Hackpen Hill. It was ‘fantastic … thoroughly beautiful’ until it was revealed it had been commissioned for a television show featuring celebrity Bradley Walsh, due to be broadcast by Sky History at the end of the year. Then, the circle became a ‘dismal mess’.
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Today’s crop circle viewers are a funny lot. They complain when there are no crop circles and often complain when there are, without any understanding of why things aren’t like they used to be in the fields. Take the circle that recently appeared, partly in poppies, on the side of Etchilhampton Hill. To quote one observer in Facebook’s most subnormal group, ‘is there a competition this year to make the most ugly formation possible?’
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Mark ‘Billy’ Breen is a thief and has been caught out stealing the work of other photographers and attempting to pass it off as his own, in public. What a loser.
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A melodramatic farmer, an argument as to why someone needs to get out more, and a rather angry camel. It must be Croppie Gossip time.
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Congratulations to Mark ‘Billy’ Breen for finally heeding our advice. He’s now posting his early bird photos on Facebook under the name ‘artrumours_from_abovegound’. It’s a cool name and we like the quirkiness of the spelling. We’re pleased for Mark that he knows the (withheld) location of this new circle:
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Over the weekend we were told by a third party of a new crop circle that had appeared at an undisclosed location. We deflected the question as to why anyone would withhold such details, but learnt the formation’s arrival was announced through one very specific Facebook group.
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‘Mike Farrow’ recently posted an article on his website relating to expectations for the 2026 season. He raises something we heard a lot at the end of last season: the idea that circle making teams are reporting each other to the police.
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It seems our recent article on Andrew Pyrka, ‘Mike Farrow’ and the Canvas Of Gold website has touched a very raw nerve. We knew it would and we weren’t disappointed.
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On Easter Sunday morning, The Croppie’s email inbox chimed with a surprising message: the ‘Crop Circle Messiah’ had likely risen from the grave after the best part of seven years away from the croppie scene.
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2025 set a precedent for tedium. The rare genuine crop circles were vastly outweighed by generally clumsy hoaxes and ‘collabs’ from the convicted criminals of Dene Hine and Deiniol Davies. We knew that as soon as they rushed out to the fields, their weird looking little puppy with a Kangol hat and a pea on its ear, Mark ‘Billy’ Breen, would psychically receive instructions to get the first footage for his TikTok account and Hine’s Facebook group.
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Croppie Gossip: The Tears of Hackpen Hill INTRODUCTION 2026 was a crop circle season that will be...
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Croppie Gossip: The Tears of Hackpen Hill INTRODUCTION The 2025 crop circle season hummed with...
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