A fourth monolith has been found off the coast of England on the Isle of Wight after the first mysterious structure was discovered in the Utah desert last month, before mysteriously vanishing.

Following the discovery and disappearance of the first monolith, another two structures appeared and disappeared: one in Romania and another in California.

These YouTubers filmed themselves visiting the Utah monolith before it vanished:

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The mysterious fourth monolith was spotted by an Isle of Wight local, Tom Dunford, who told Sky News: "I knew about all the monolith stories recently, so I recognized it straight away."

The 29-year-old explained that he discovered the mysterious monolith with his fiancée and sister as they walked his dog on the island's Compton Beach at around 7:30AM on Sunday morning.

Dunford said that the object is around 10-feet tall and "really reflective".

"The person who put it there knows what they're doing," Dunford said, before adding that he believes the mysterious structure was placed on the beach by "someone playing a practical joke".

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Dunford, a healthcare assistant, said: "I thought I was very bizarre when I first saw it and immediately researched the ones found in Utah, California, and Romania.

"We moved some of the sand from around the bottom and it's partly buried but we felt underneath and it was made of wood with mirrors stuck to the side."

The Isle of Wight County Press reports that, at first, people believed images of the Isle of Wight monolith to be a photoshopped hoax until the volume of evidence proved otherwise.

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While people speculated online about the origins of the original monolith, hazarding a guess that it could be anything from an art installation to aliens, credit for the unusual structures was taken by gallery owner David Zwirner, who said that the Utah monolith was "definitely" a secret piece from artist John McCracken - a claim that has now been refuted.

In an interview with Art News, a spokesperson from The David Zwirner Gallery said: "While this is not a work by the late American artist John McCracken, we suspect it is a work by a fellow artist paying homage to McCracken."

As per Fox News, a small community of "stunt artists" have now also taken credit for the monoliths (or, at least, the ones discovered in the US). The community, which is known as The Most Famous Artist, is now selling the objects for $45,000 each.

A fourth monolith has been discovered - this time in England