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American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, an enthusiast for New England megalith stone sites, is known to have visited Mystery Hill sometime between 1928 and the 1930s. Mystery Hill is popularly attributed as inspiration for Lovecraft's story "The Dunwich Horror". Scholars, however, place Lovecraft's visit too late to have inspired the 1929 story.
The site was featured on an episode of the American History Channel TV series Secrets of the Ancient World which aired on January 14, 2002, and in which Boston University archaeology professor Curtis Runnels refuted the theory that the site was built by Celts in ancient history.
In Search Of..., a 1970s show narrated by Leonard Nimoy, did an episode about the site, titled "Strange Visitors". It was referred to as "Mystery Hill".
In the Weird or What? TV series hosted by William Shatner, the "Human Popsicle" episode covered America's Stonehenge and a variety of explanations as to its origin.
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