A Pyramid Hidden in Plain Sight

Is Pilot Mountain just shaped like a pyramid? The archeology papers of Surry County are all restricted access (tDAR.org) so it is really not possible to know what is known about the mountain. That information is only released on a need to know basis and it is redacted when released to the public. There does seem to be a huge borrow area (like the Hopewell and Newark earthworks) behind the new Pilot Mountain State Park Visitor Center. That could also be the result of construction of I-52 on the other side of the borrow area. With the current level of interest in Pilot Mountain maybe in the near future someone will dig down about a foot in the soil with a research permit. Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill have prestigious archeology departments that could do studies on the mountain with minimal travel expenses. They could then determine if there is any evidence or man-made aspects on the huge pyramid shaped quartzite mountain.

The pyramid view is only seen on the east-west access out on country roads that mainly just the locals in Pinnacle, North Carolina see each day.

What proof would we need that it is a pyramid shape? Maybe a pyramid shadow? Or a respected university professor publishing that it looks like “an almost perfect pyramid” in a prestigious journal almost eighty years ago?

Traveling on I-52 the pyramid aspect of Pilot Mountain in Surry County, North Carolina is hidden in modern times.

Pyramid aspect was widely known in the 1800s. Even if you couldn’t read you could see the boxwood engraving in the newspaper depicting the pyramid view. The image (left) was first published in 1836 in a newspaper and later in a textbook in 1858.

This is how the pyramid shadow starts about ninety minutes before sunset. This image catches the pyramid shadow crossing the Pilot Mountain State Park visitor center parking lot. It is moving slowly toward the nearby RV Park and you can see the Sauratown Mountains in the background.