The Second Monolith Has Now Also Disappeared

The "structure disappeared overnight as quietly as it was erected."

X-Files 2.0

Reuters reports that the second mysterious monolith, spotted near an archeological site in northern Romania, has disappeared.

If you're keeping count, that's the second mysterious metal monolith that has disappeared without a trace recently. Last week, a monolith spotted in the Utah wilderness also disappeared — in what some open-minded folks would call an alien abduction.

As it later turned out, however, it was a gang of four men, who ripped the installation out of the ground and carried it away in a wheelbarrow.

Second Intervention

And now, Romania has lost its monolith as well.

"The 2.8 metre [nine feet] tall structure disappeared overnight as quietly as it was erected last week," local journalist Robert Iosub told Reuters.

It certainly was lacking the finish of the monolith discovered in Utah.

"An unidentified person, apparently a bad local welder, made it... now all that remains is just a small hole covered by rocky soil," Iosub said.

READ MORE: Mystery monolith vanishes in Romania - alien action or local prank? [Reuters]

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