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Effigy Mounds National Monument

Harpers Ferry, IA

More than 200 prehistoric mounds are preserved here, including numerous earthworks shaped like bears and birds. The landscape is culturally significant to multiple Indigenous nations and should be treated as a protected sacred archaeological site.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/efmo/

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