Just as in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a monolith has appeared.
This time, though, it showed up near the 12th hole of a St. Catharines golf course.
The piece of art, standing about three metres in height, appeared at Rockway Vineyards Golf Course sometime during the last week.
Jordan Foley, controller for Rockway, at the St. Catharines-Lincoln border, said he was dropping his kids off for school when he noticed an object on the course.
“I noticed something out of place,” he said. “I thought, ‘What the hell is that?’”
The monolith is about 20 or 30 yards in. Foley described it as being “quite seamless.”
“Whoever did it, did a hell of a job,” said Foley. “Really good job to the artist.”
He said course staff have “absolutely no idea” who put the object there. Even the groundskeeper, who lives across the road from the golf course, did not notice anyone in the act of erecting the monolith.
Foley and Rockway staff are curious about who put it there and why.
Currently there are no plans to remove it, but Foley said he hopes whoever put it there will remove it soon.
“They did no damage, but it is going to have to be removed,” he said.
There are not many people at the golf course this time of year, but all the workers who have seen it so far have said it looks pretty cool, said Foley.
Similar monoliths have been popping up in different locales all around the world, including California and Utah in the United States, as well as Germany and Romania. The edifices, most of them made of shiny metal, have mysteriously appeared and then been removed.
There have also been Canadian cases of monoliths appearing, such as one in Pinawa, Man.
The Rockway edifice is the first reported discovery of a monolith in Niagara.
Report: Mary Zhang
FROM：NIAGARA FALL SREVIEW