What the Hell Are They?

[wolf]

I was on the New Jersey Turnpike yesterday.

I usually try to avoid this, but circumstances were beyond my control.

Anyway ... sometimes on the center concrete median, you see these things.

Kind of like Blair Witch Effigies that seem to be made of wood slats, or perhaps metal. They all look the same. They do not vary. They are not regularly spaced. You might see one in a five mile stretch, then see 3 of them within a mile ... They do not hold up signs, they are not festooned with reflectors, they don't seem to be hooked up to anything, like they aren't camera mounts, or solar cell arrays, or even simple milemarkers. There are, in fact, simple milemarkers on the concrete median that have no apparent relationship to the things. If they were in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, I might (not likely, only might) be convinced that there was some Pennsylvania Dutch/Pow-Wow Medicine significance to them.

I asked one of my doctors, who is a New Jersey resident about them. He was been wondering about them for years.