The Faces of Pilot Mountain

Honestly, some people see the stone faces on Pilot Mountain’s trails and some don’t. No worries either way. The main question asked at talks is are the stone faces natural or man-made? That question was the reason the North Carolina Division of Natural and Cultural Resources banned the book from sale at the mountain. The deeper question is do the stone faces have a heartbeat in the consciousness sense of Ontology Physics and can you communicate with them? After all, they could be 1.6 billion years old and might have some wisdom to share with humans.

Edited by Matt Zeeman.
“Mountain Dreamer” Words and music by Victy Silva, Patricia Sperry,
Mitchell Yates and Billy Ralph Winkler © 1997
(c) Video 2024
Musicians: Mitchell Yates and Billy Ralph Winkler
Recording location: Deep Gap, North Carolina

This video below is about the Pilot Mountain pyramid which is dedicated to George Howard who is the producer of Cosmic Summit.

Edited by Matt Zeeman.
Lyrics and music to “Mountain Dreamer” by Victy Silva, Patricia Sperry, Mitchell Yates and Billy Ralph Winkler © 1997 (c) Video 2024
Musicians: Mitchell Yates and Billy Ralph Winkler
Recording location: Deep Gap, North Carolina

This is my second talk on the mountain from last summer at Twin Lakes in Burlington, North Carolina that was SRO. Since then I’ve done over a dozen talks but each one has different slides for the Powerpoint so no two are alike.

This is a short video below of what it is like to walk up to the stone face that looks like a Moai on the steep trail.

Very curious spot on the Pilot Knob Trail that is called the Devil’s Den and has an entrance to a rather famous cave that is now blocked by boulders.

This was an attempt by the author to do a video of the pyramid shadow forming from the air in an airplane. It was a very hazy day and we only got one pass by the shadow before the sun was blocked by the haze.

Pyramid shadow from the Pilot Knob Trail walking around the Big Pinnacle of Pilot Mountain.

This video below was taken on a day that a cloud covered the entire top of the mountain along the Ledge Spring Trail. This is a stone face which reminds the author of a Moai on Easter Island and it even has a top knot. When Dr. Robert Schoch was shown an image of this particular stone face via email he was intrigued by the notch on the lower right portion of the top knot but did think it was otherwise natural. Forensic geologist, Scott Wolter, toured the Pilot Knob Trail around the Big Pinnacle with the author on June 24,2025 and also felt the stone faces were natural. The author had already taken out the question, “are the stone faces natural or man-made?” that the NC Division of Natural and Cultural Resources objected,k but even after it was deleted the ban continued for the book onsite. This ban is also making research difficult and the one permit that was approved did not allow the author to tape record of video anyone on the mountain. The subject of the permit was the local oral history of the mountain by visitors on the fourth of July weekend in 2025.

This time-lapse video of the pyramid shadow is from a few weeks after the summer solstice. Eighteen minutes of real-time video is compressed into one minute. The very last few seconds of this video shows the fade.

This is the equinox sunrise looking from the Little Pinnacle to the Big Pinnacle. While this video was running on a tripod in 20 mph wind there was a still shot that was taken that is the cover of “Lessons of Pilot Mountain.”

This video is from the Winston-Salem Journal of the aftermath of the Pilot Mountain State Park fire. While there was serious damage to the Little and Big Pinnacle, elsewhere in the main, it was a ground level forest floor fire. They had a plan for a control burn of the entire mountain that they had never used, but put it into effect within 24 hours of the start of the fire.