A hidden Stone Tunnel Chamber, in an unrevealed location, in Vermont. Photo by Mike Luoma.

Ancient Stone Mysteries of New England

Exploring Stone Chambers in Massachusetts and Vermont

I’m inside the dome-shaped interior of a beehive stone chamber. Optical luminescence dating (OSL) places its time of construction at around 1200 to 1500 AD, 500 to 800 years ago.

Inside of the domed interior of The Upton Chamber, in Upton, Massachusetts. Photos by Mike Luoma.

This isn’t somewhere in Europe. This is in Upton, Massachusetts.

Passage into the domed interior of The Upton Chamber. Photo by Mike Luoma.

This stone chamber with its long passageway has inspired much speculation. The stone construction’s resemblance to similar structures found along coastal Northern Europe fueled a great deal of speculation in the 1970’s on the presence of pre-Columbian European explorers. Other researchers detailed stellar alignments they found from inside this chamber using stone points on nearby hills, and made a case for this being a Native American spiritual space and stellar observatory. And there are more…