When I visited my family in Beggs, Oklahoma, I became interested in a local curiosity, The Giants’ Highway, or Checkerboard Crossing. The unusually flat limestone bed, crossed with regular cracks, is the subject of much local folklore; and has been marketed at times as a tourist attraction. It had generally escaped the notice of simulacra and rock buffs, so I wrote it up for the October 2005 issue of Fate. This being the 666th issue, they put Crowley on the cover, thereby enraging many pious readers.