01.06.04 The Mysterious Mima Mounds

chrismaier · Site Admin Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 26

Have a comment or a question about this report or a theory on how the mounds might have been created? Post it below!

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gæst · Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 1

Hallo Chris

I've just been directed from Phenomena (former Daily Grail) to your article and I must say that I enjoyed reading it. I had heard of the Mima Mounds before, but it was nice to have a summary of the theories in an easily accessible manner.
One thing I liked, was the lack of wild theories, it is all to easy to find sites that conjures ancient civilizations or alien beings to explain, what may be a hoax or a natural phenomenon.

You mention that 'Mima' means death or burial in the Chinook language, though they have no legends - but the simple solution might be, that the Chinook wondered about those hills, just like the rest of us, and that they named them after what they thought they were?

regards,
Gæst

rdiver · Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Central Oregon

Hey Chris

I liked your article. No speculation about alien space pods or anything like that. We have these type of mounds north of Shaniko here in central Oregon. They are on both sides of highway 97. It looks as some of the ranchers have leveled some of them. Still, there are hundreds of them.
The only explanation I can come come up with was the flood when the ice dam on the Columbia broke during the ice age. But if they are all up and down the west coast, I guess that doesn't work.

Anyway,nice articles, I will keep reading.

rdiver

mokeeffe · Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 1 Location: San Jose, Ca

Hi Chris,
I lived in Alabama for a few years while in the Air Force (during the late sixties!) At that time, Alabama (and most of the Southeast U.S.) was undergoing an "invasion" of ants that were called fire ants. (They had not been there in previous dacades.) The anthills could be seen almost everywhere - and they were huge - like spires sometimes 8-10 feet tall and 2-5 feet wide.

I can immagine that if a rodent "invasion" occurred thousands of years ago in western North America (or gophers, or some species related to prariedogs), they could have left behind the mima mounds. I recall learning that prariedog communities discovered in the 19th century covered hundreds of square miles.
Mike
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