Mystery rocks.

In Canada there are some mysterious stones lying around.

They appear to be ancient and have petroglyphs in places.

Any suggestions??

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Very interesting. I'd love to see them first-hand.
But they are nowhere as bizzare as the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland

how bout a good link to the giants causeway...i wanna see it

those are really neat rocks... i'm guessing a very early age of native americans did that, or atleast carved i them.

and this is giants causeway (courtesy of a google image search!)
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Giant's Causway reminds me of Devil's Postpile

They are natural formations called columnar basalt formations, not manmade.

Sorry for the double post.

[edit on 6-9-2004 by nyarlathotep]

Awesome find.

What neat places to go.

I wonder if you could use those "Devil posts" for curbs??

The canada rock formation looks a bit like the limestone pavement at Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales

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It was more than likely the Norse!

Nyarlathotep's right... those are natural formations.

The petroglyphs, however, that's another matter. I can say that they are apparently old (hard to say from a photo, but there's lichen growing on some sections), and that they are NOT Runes, Cuneiform, Ogham or any writing system I'm familiar with.

Interesting!

I think all the weird stuff from ancient times. Pyramids, weird rock formations, stone hendge(sp), spynx, large carved cities, and statues etc... were made simply because people were bored to tears and had nothing else to do with their lives.

I mean all they had were they skies and each other to look at for entertainment.

If they had computers/tv back then we would not have any of that old stuff to look at now. Imagine what you could accomplish if TV/Movies/Computers did not exist?

This is the best thread i've seen all week, Lots of great images and links, thanks to all for making my afternoon a good !!!

What's interesting too is the balancing rocks, I've seen them on the internet and they can be found all over the internet! I think that they are some of the neatest mysteries ever. How long have they been there? how do they stay balanced through high winds and earthquakes, and such?

Here are some links!


rock-on-rock-on.com...

Near where I live there is a provincial park where all of the Native leaders used to carve things into. Its really cool they are depp in there and there are easily 200 of them

Most liley built by the Indians who lived there.

wow. this is pretty crazy. i live in saskatchewan. i should check this out. my guess is this was done be the natives that lived here a long time ago. oh no. i clicked the next page button and it happens to be the dam from the #ty little town i grew up in. i never would have thoguht i'd seen anything form this area on here. this palce never ceases to amaze me.