Overview
- The discovery by two horseback riders uncovered roughly 100–200 small solar-powered speakers jutting from a mountainside near Mount Shasta, a site the finder says she first noticed on June 23.
- Reporters and the finder confirmed the speakers run on solar power and play preloaded recordings stored on each unit rather than streaming from Bluetooth.
- When heard up close a single speaker plays a human voice repeating short mantras, but the unsynchronized voices blend across the field into a static-like drone that many described as eerie.
- The finder located and exchanged messages with the private landowner, who told her the project aims to spread messages of peace, compassion and veganism and asked that his identity and the exact location not be shared; a reported text about removing speakers tied to public vegan pledges has limited independent verification.
- The episode has drawn viral curiosity and wide-ranging theories, and it raises local concerns about trespassing and potential wildlife effects against a backdrop of Mount Shasta’s long New Age and folklore associations.