Me too. When I was a kid, I found one along the railroad tracks. It was beautiful: bright purple, rectangular in shape, with deep black striations. I knew it had to be from outer space, so I took it to the town’s chief rock hound, who even had his own rock hound business, to help me identify it.
“Meh,” he said, “They’re nothing. They’re everywhere.”
C’mon, man! Who’s he think he’s kidding. I was eleven. I’d been everywhere and they weren’t there. Clearly, he was trying to cheat me.
I don’t know what happened to it over the ensuing 50 years, but it disappeared somehow. I figure the Neptunians came one day and took it back, in the middle of the night. Never seen one like it before or since.
I’d be going back to the tracks to see if there are anymore of them, could be life changing If it was one.
I did some prospecting for ‘Herkimer Diamonds’ once (not real diamonds, they are a type of clear quartz, worth a little bit of money), and paid to go into a site to dig. Didn’t find squat. I was heading back home when I noticed the banking along the road leading down to a river was li Ed with the same type rocks that I was just searching in the pit area. I stopped just out of curiosity, and broke open a bunch of the rocks (the crystals form in small pockets inside the rocks), and found quite a stash of the ‘diamonds’. Still, got some, but gave most away, they aren’t worth a whole lot rea.ly, just cool to have if a person likes to collect rocks and minerals of various kinds.