Paranoidal

Check out this tidbit from Pop Occulture …

A friend sent me this link, thinking it was legit. It’s supposedly about someone named Tucker Darby who is investigating the story of Iowa farmer Benjamin Stove, who abandoned his family farm in 1988, leaving behind a mysterious painting of a crop circle.

I did some digging (and so have some folks on the site’s forum), and it turns out the domain is registered to GDM Studios.

GDM has links to Crispin Porter, the group responsible for such viral marketing promotions as the Subservient Chicken.

I can’t find any upcoming movies or TV shows that incorporate the idea of alien abductions and/or crop circles, so I’m not sure *what* they are trying to promote, but it’s interesting.

This sounds very similar to the M. Night Shyamalan/Sci Fi Channel mockumentary promotion for the Village. If he didn’t already do Signs I would peg this on him.