Finding things where you don't expect them

Finding things where you don't expect them - part two

Published on April 29, 2004 By KarmaGirl In Life Journals

This one isn't quite as cool as the first one, but it was odd anyway. I can't really tell you the exact location of this, but it is in very Northern lower Michigan. The great lakes were formed by glaciers, so there are interesting rock formations and hills in Northern Michigan. We were driving around when I asked my husband "what the heck is that off the road there?" So, we turned around. It is a gigantic rock. Just sitting there. No real path to it or anything. (That is my husband acting all dorky posing in front of the rock- shows you how big the rock is because my husband is almost 6 foot tall)

So, that was another odd thing that I saw on my journey of doing nothing.

Peace and Coffee,
Karma

Comments

MasonM

on Apr 29, 2004

Without that sign how many people would see that boulder and not even wonder how it got there in the first place?

MasonM

on Apr 29, 2004

Oh, almost forgot this.

Are we absolutely certain that a glacier deposited it there? There are other explainations. Perhaps some alien visitors were having a barbeque and needed a good place to sit? Just a thought. (Ok a silly one, granted)

KarmaGirl

on Apr 29, 2004

If that sign wasn't there, I might have thought that it was part of the hill and never noticed it. It wasn't exactly on the road. But, you are right, it may have been aliens and the government is covering it up with the excuse of "glaciers".

MasonM

on Apr 29, 2004

Oh come on now! That is just plain silly. The government would never cover something up.

Would they?

Darius Farrar

on Apr 29, 2004

It's even scarier when you consider that someone probally spent a lot of time to identify that rock, and then to get the sign produced. And they didn't even make a trail. What a pity.

KarmaGirl

on Apr 30, 2004

Oh come on now! That is just plain silly. The government would never cover something up.

Would they?

Maybe I'm an alien and you just don't know it......

It's even scarier when you consider that someone probally spent a lot of time to identify that rock, and then to get the sign produced. And they didn't even make a trail. What a pity.

I know. And, the sign is well maintained, and they cut the trees down that were close to it. But, there is nothing that points to it, or anything that would catch your eye when you drive by. I really wonder how many things like that exist, though. I would assume a whole lot.

MasonM

on Apr 30, 2004

I really wonder how many things like that exist, though. I would assume a whole lot.

In 1996 I was exploring a really old road (more of an overgrown trail) up in the Blue Ridge Mountains when I came across some native stones set upright in what must have once been a clearing or even a small field. It was obvious that these were grave markers. The writing on them had long since weathered to the point of being impossible to read more than a few letters.

There was a historical sign on a post which stated that these had been a family of early pioneers who died of yellow fever in the late 1700's. It was a really amazing piece of history to find stuck out in the woods. This was not an area that saw a lot of hikers. It is very rugged and isolated (my favorite places to explore) and I wonder how many people even know it's there?

I explored a bit more and a few hundred yards away discovered signs of the old cabin or house that they must have lived in back then. Took a good bit of work but I could pretty much lay out the farm they had established so many years ago. I spent three days camping there and exploring this, imagining what their lives must have been like before disease took them.

The treasures abound to him that seeks them.

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