After the mono­lith in the mid­dle of the Utah desert was sud­den­ly removed with­out a trace (lat­er to have been done so by Tik­Tok­ers), a third mono­lith has been dis­cov­ered in Cal­i­for­nia. This one is slight­ly dif­fer­ent than that which was dis­cov­ered in Utah, but the mys­tery of how these three got to their loca­tions remains the same. In addi­tion to Utah and Cal­i­for­nia, a mono­lith sim­i­lar to those two was dis­cov­er­ing in Romania.

Los Ange­les Times reports:

A shiny met­al mono­lith has been spot­ted on California’s Cen­tral Coast that appears sim­i­lar to one dis­cov­ered in the Utah desert.

It’s unclear who placed the gleam­ing struc­ture at the top of the Pine Moun­tain Loop hik­ing trail in Atas­cadero, Fox affil­i­ate KKFX in San Luis Obis­po report­ed Wednes­day. The tall, sil­ver col­umn drew some hik­ers to the area after pho­tos were post­ed on social media.

“Pret­ty sure it wasn’t here yes­ter­day,” hik­er Den­nis Swan­son told the TV station.

At least two oth­er mono­liths have been spot­ted else­where. A sim­i­lar struc­ture that offi­cials said was made of riv­et­ed plates of stain­less steel drew inter­na­tion­al atten­tion after wildlife offi­cials stum­bled across it in south­east­ern Utah, plant­ed in the area’s dis­tinc­tive red rock.

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Aman­da Shea
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