In case you're acquainted with the American Southwest or regardless of whether you're a devotee of the paranormal, you've known about the strange stones that move over the outside of a dry lake in Death Valley called Racetrack Playa. Hundreds and many rocks, dispersed about the outside of this few square mile mudflat, have abandoned path them where they've moved over the surface. No one has ever observed one move, in spite of numerous examinations. I came as close as possible.
Proposed clarifications run the extent from characteristic to paranormal to outsider. Peculiar attractive powers, mystic vitality, outsider shuttle, adolescent pranksters, and even trans dimensional vortices have all been proposed. The main logical speculation is that the stones are moved by high breezes, on uncommon events when the play is sufficiently wet to be incredibly elusive, and conditions are perfect. I've generally experienced difficulty with this clarification. I used to play in mud pads as a child, and when a stone is stuck onto that surface it's entirely damn difficult to move. The stones at Racetrack Playa are very smoothed out, and it's difficult to envision any wind sufficiently able to break their bond with the surface and push them along sufficiently profound to leave those path. The genuine reason for the moving rocks, it turns out, conveys much more punch than wind, and requires conditions that are not weirdo and that are effectively discernible.
In the late-winter of 2002, I made one of my numerous outings to Racetrack Play with two companions, Dan Bocek and John Countryman. The encompassing mountains were as yet secured with day off, the play itself was firm however had an enormous lake covering about a fifth of its surface, maybe an inch or two profound at its edges, accumulated at the play's south end where it's most minimal. We wandered out, outfitted with cameras, in the blink of an eye before dawn. The temperature was simply above freezing. The breeze, from the south, was very solid and freezing. At the point when we arrived at the lake, we found to our extraordinary amazement that the whole lake was moving with the breeze, at a speed we assessed at one portion of a mile for each hour. The sun was on the lake at this point and we could see a couple of extremely slight ice sheets that were presently dissolving once more into water. This entire parade was washing past a large number of the renowned rocks. It's anything but difficult to envision that on the off chance that it were just not many degrees colder when we were there — as it likely had been several hours sooner — the entire surface would be incredible sheets of flimsy ice. Strong ice, moving with the outside of the lake and with the dormancy of an entire encompassing ice sheet, would experience no difficulty pushing a stone along the smooth sloppy floor. Positively significantly more torque than twist alone, as has been proposed. The breeze was breezy and moved around a few, and since the surface isn't completely level and with rocks and different hindrances, the water didn't stream straight; rather it traded around as it moved commonly forward. Ice sheets driven by the water would move similarly, representing the turns and bends found in a large number of the stone path.
However, don't take my assertion for any of this. I disclosed to you we had cameras, and I caught the occasion on record. It's well worth two minutes of your time:
That no one has ever observed the stones move is anything but difficult to accept. When there's water on the outside of the playa, you're not permitted to go out there — and for sure, you most likely wouldn't have any desire to. Therefore there's no one around when the ice sheets drag the stones.
We missed the real occasion, most likely by half a month, so we didn't get the principal genuine video of a moving stone. Most likely somebody before long will. In any case, we did see and record all the powers at play, and I think our clarification is unquestionably more conceivable than any past speculations.
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