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The Brunton compass locked south-and it forced a buried quarry to be found

The Brunton compass locked south-and it forced a buried quarry to be found

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A Brunton compass in a Bellward Heights kitchen snaps south and won’t budge, forcing a retired chemistry teacher to chase a buried quarry’s secrets.

The Brunton compass locked south-and it forced a buried quarry to be found

In this episode, we trace how small, unexplained readings in an ordinary house coalesced into a strange pattern that pushed neighbors, a surveyor, and a retired chemistry teacher into action. What links a locked compass, recurring DC voltages, and a weird crack in a foundation?

Person: Lauren Riley
Person: Dennis Riley
Date: May 9, 2011
Location: 14 Sutter Crest Drive, Bellward Heights
Event: Brunton compass needle locked south

- A Meade County surveyor set a Brunton compass on a kitchen table at 10:14 a.m.; the needle locked south and did not move when the housing was rotated.
- Dennis, a licensed electrician, logged 22 DC voltage readings (4-6 V) on a dead wire in the crawl space across 15 months in a spiral notebook.
- A 14-inch hairline crack in the foundation slab ran on a precise northwest-southeast bearing that a contractor called a “weird line.”
- The house was built in 2004 on fill from Holloway Quarry’s drained pond; a geological survey of the land had been misfiled in the county archive for nine years.
- The surveyor photographed the stuck compass, Lauren documented the anomaly like a lab result, and Dennis’s meticulous notes tied recurring measurements to a place with hidden history.

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