[Swordmaker]

Gobbler's Rock

[farmfriend]

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[Doctor Stochastic]

A joke that would require heavy-duty moving equipment to get the boulders into the branches.

That's assuming a rope to be heavy-duty-moving-equipment.

[Moonmad27]

This qualifies as strangest story of the month, if not the year.

[capitan_refugio]

The boulders were put there by the jackalopes.

[Consort]

Unexplained Resting Boulders: A new branch of geology.

[MHGinTN]

Then there's the 'Coral Castle, in Florida, where a man working by himself moved and stacked multi-ton masses of coral stone, to build a shrine to the woman he loved and lost. He had to move the massive structures to a new location and the hauling truck driver swears the man moved the masses by himself and placed them on the flatbed with each trip! All in a matter of moments with no visible block and tackle, merely out of eye-shot from the driver!

[bluefish]

The boulder was eventually dubbed Gobbler's Rock after the turkey hunter.

Does the turkey hunter gobble himself? Perhaps a hunter can tell me if they make "turkey call" doodads kind of like the "duck call" thingies? That, or the rock was named after the hunter's prey, not after the frekin hunter!

Sorry, I'm in a bad mood and feel like being nit picky.

[BJungNan]

Known to locals as URBs, or Unexplained Resting Boulders, officials can't explain how the boulders got wedged into the branches in the first place.

No mystery here. At least not as to how the rocks got there. Who did it we might not know, but it is certain someone put them there.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

They are probably tree sitters who climbed up there to keeep loggers from cutting the trees. They probably also took a porn magazine to pass the time.

My momma always said if I looked at one of those magazines I would turn to stone. I peeked at a porn magazine once. Momma was right! I started turning to stone!

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[Iris7]

If a person is tempted to have an opinion about something he or she has utterly no knowledge, and then forwards an hypothesis based on this opinion, then I for one am under no obligation to consider this hypothesis or opinion as more valid than, say, the barking of a dog - unless they at least bound their imaginations by Occam's Razor!!!

Right, Doc?

[Centurion2000]

Bigfoot is playing a joke on us.

[capitan_refugio]

The resting boulders don't bother me so much. it's the ones that move that have me worried.

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/OddPics/Playa.html

[leadpenny]

I get up to get a drink of water and check on the World Series score and I run into this thread. Trying to imagine how that rock got up in the top of that poplar is not going to help me get back to sleep. Thanks a lot.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

On the top is says "Killroy was here"

[wideminded]

I've seen boulders in trees when I visited placer gold mining areas of Northern California and Southern Oregon. They appeared to have been placed by winter flooding although there was amazingly little damage to the trees. They weren't as large as these ones but were too large and high up to have been lifted by hand. The article doesn't say much about the exact topography of the area although it mentioned that the trees overlooked a ravine.

[G.Mason]

A new mystery to challenge and bewilder "crop circle" devotees.

I'm sure these rocks will start showing up in trees all over the world, and in short order.

It's the little green men don'tcha know?

[Thinkin' Gal]

The mystery began a few years ago when a turkey hunter, scouting in a remote area of the 23,000-acre forest, discovered a large boulder in the top of an 80-foot-tall chestnut oak tree. What he saw wedged among its branches was a boulder about 4 feet wide and a foot thick.

The boulder was eventually dubbed Gobbler's Rock after the turkey hunter. It sits high on a south-facing slope overlooking a ravine near Tulip Tree Road in western Brown County and is thought to weigh at least 400 pounds.

After the initial sighting of Gobbler's Rock, hikers have found at least two more giant sandstone boulders sitting in the top limbs of two sycamores. One boulder is nearly 45 feet off the ground and both rocks appear to weigh about 200 pounds.

Yellowwood looks like a good place to avoid like the plague.

Revelation 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

5464 chalaza {khal'-ad-zah}
probably from 5465;; n f
AV - hail 4; 4

1) hail

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5465 chalao {khal-ah'-o}
from the base of 5490;; v
AV - let down 6, strike 1; 7

1) to loosen, slacken, relax
2) to let down from a higher place to a lower

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5006 talantiaios {tal-an-tee-ah'-yos}
from 5007;; adj
AV - weight of a talent 1; 1

1) a weight or worth of a talent
1a) a talent of silver weighed about 100 pounds (45 kg)
1b) a talent of gold, 200 pounds (91 kg)

[leadpenny]

A prank.

It is recent. The supporting limbs would show signs of being deformed, especially where the rock meets the bark, if it had been placed there any longer ago than three to five years.

If heavy ground equipment had been used, evidence would still be visible.

Answer: A well planned and coordinated helicopter sling-load operation.