In the summer of 1978, a quiet farm on the outskirts of Bentonville in Benton County, became the center of local speculation about occult activity. A worker named Steve Ferguson was hauling rocks from old Doc Compton's property when he noticed a crude structure hidden among the briars and trees: native fieldstones stacked like a low fireplace or altar. In the center sat a cow skull, and the surrounding rocks bore painted symbols and inscriptions. One message, scrawled in whi