We know who paid for the Georgia Guidestones, but no one knows R.C. Christian’s true identity nor his intentions for ‘America’s Stonehenge’. Now destroyed, the mystery behind the monument lives on.
Atop a windswept hill in rural Georgia stood a 19-foot, 3-inch-high granite monument with a series of instructions for living in a future “age of reason.”
Unveiled in 1980 near Elberton, about 100 miles northeast of Atlanta, the Georgia Guidestones have been shrouded in mystery and the center of controversy for decades. The true identity of the man who commissioned the monoliths and the meaning behind its cryptic 10-part message inscribed in eight languages remain unknown.