Head to the Pinnacles desert in Western Australia, and you might just think you’ve stumbled onto a Star Wars set, with a vast field of towering spikes of rock sticking out from the dark yellow sands. But while they definitely aren’t the remnants of moviemaking, exactly how and when these strange structures formed has long been the subject of debate. Perhaps the darkest theory comes courtesy of the Yued people, who believe that the pillars are the hands and fingers of young men who were warned by elders not to enter the area, but did so anyway, and were sucked up into the sand as a result. This…