Alignments and patterns of powerful, invisible earth energy said to connect various sacred sites, such as churches, temples, stone circles, megaliths, holy wells, burial sites,
and other locations of spiritual or magical importance.

The existence of leys is controversial. If they do exist, their true age and purpose remain a mystery. Controversy over them has existed since 1925, It was suggested that all holy sites and places of antiquity were connected by a pattern of lines he called 'leys'. Mounds, barrows, tumuli, stones, stone circles, crosses, churches built on pagan sites, legendary trees, castles, motes and baileys, moats, hillforts, earthworks and holy wells were all thought to stand in alignment.

Many archaeologists and other scientists dispute the existence of leys and say the theory originated by Watkins was contrived because aligned secular and sacred sites from different periods of history. Ley enthusiasts contend that leys mark paths of some sort of earth energy that can be detectedby dowsing, and perhaps was sensed by early humans. The energy is compared to the flow of chi, the universal life force identified in ancient Chinese philosophy.

Points where the ley energy paths intersect are said to be prone to anomalies such as earth lights and unexplained phenomena and sightings of UFOs. Some suggest that the paths are navigational aids to extraterrestrial spacecraft. When the first spacecraft lifted off our Earth that last lights that could be seen from outer space were in the Bermuda triangle, fathoms beneath the sea. These energy leys, however, do not necessarily coincide with physical alignments of sites. Despite the controversy ley researchers hope at least to come to a better understanding of ancient sacred sites, and of the people who built them.

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