‘Who Blew Up The Guidestones?’

A deceptively ambitious whodunit brings receipts.

“What are you trying to get at?” a man on the phone demands. “What is your goal?” 

He’s speaking to — berating, really — reporter Tyler McBrien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. McBrien’s response is as gentle as his subject is combative. “Like I said, it’s just to get to the bottom of who blew up the Guidestones.” 

This fascinating, frustrating exchange happens late in McBrien’s seven-part series, “Who Blew Up the Guidestones?” By this point, listeners will be familiar with the question, as McBrien repeats it dozens of times while talking to law enforcement or swapping theories with locals. Sometimes he invokes it as a rhetorical aside, a naked plea for the truth to appear.

 

Katie Clark Gray is a Webby award-winning podcast producer, Pew Fellow, and partner at Uncompromised Creative. Currently she writes for Audible Originals’ “Scamfluencers” and “Business Wars.” Past credits include: “The Best Idea Yet,” “Masters of Scale,” “Spark & Fire,” “Meditative Story,” and feature film “The Paper Store.”