Yes, I admit it. I’m the man who put the shinny Obelisk in a Vermont stream. I conjured it in ten minutes, out of a spruce two-by-six, some tinfoil, a little duct tape and a ten-inch spike. Then, as the sun was getting low and I wanted to catch the last light on the valley floor, I walked quickly down the long driveway to the bottom.

I got there in time to climb down to the water’s edge, move out into the current and poke the Obelisk spike into the stream-bed. I took two convincing photos of the relic in the “Godlight-at-the-end of-the-day” light.  And, that was it. Oh, and I didn’t drop my phone in the brook as was reported in the article; that was fake-news.  I took the obelisk from the brook, climbed the steep bank to the road and staged a few more photos in the hilly meadow on the other side of the brook. After that, it really was the end of the sun for the day, so I walked back across the bridge, and up the hill to the house.  I needed to post a photo and write some fake-news.  I left the Obelisk standing in the woods along the driveway.