Unexplained tree-top boulders found in forest

[Althalus]

Something unnatural is going on in Yellowwood State Forest.

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. The trees are 100 yards apart growing near the banks of Plum Creek in a seldom-visited part of Yellowwood State Forest, just southwest of Helmsburg.

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. The huge rocks couldn’t grow upward with the trees because the saplings could not have withstood their weight. The boulders must have been placed high in the trees after their trunks were sturdy enough to support them.

Brown County Indiana

[snuffypuffer]

I guess maybe, umm, never mind, I got no idea.

[Kismit]

Snuffy , my guess would be a guiser (crappy spelling) or similar erupting thing was the cause behind this particular phenomenomenom (spelling joke) , it is an interesting article though .

[Goku101]

Ithink it was a meteor of some sort maybe

[Benjo Koolzooie]

That is really weird!? I wonder how they got in to the branches!?

[Pale_Horse]

I've actually went and saw these things. Very strange!

[Benjo Koolzooie]

Was there any sign of self - levitating boulders?

[Pale_Horse]

Was there any sign of self - levitating boulders?

Nope, although many of the locals think that a bunch of enginering students got drunk and did this.

[fletch]

The drunk students is what i was going to suggest.... that and bigfoot trying to catch birds maybe..... but seriously some sort of natural geezer or gaseous escape