Hi,
i dont know where to put this topic..and i start it here...

Well,i need to know more about these moving rocks..
all i know is these rocks/stones can 'make a moves by themselves'..and that's
make me wonder...is it kind of strange desert 'animals'..??

Where it comes from...??is it somewhere in California..??then where..??
and for those who has more information bout these moving rocks please
share with me here...thanx.

Here's an older thread that provides several links with additional information;

CLICK HERE

Flash floods.

in death valley, california? i think not.

Shouldn't this be in ancient mysteries & alternative history?

normally, but here Mr. Pendekar was suggesting they were lifeforms, not just rocks.

Oh. Sorry I missed that. Good theory though. If they were a life form, what do they feed on?

Has anyone ever broken one open?

Speaking of lifeforms, is it possible the stones have a hollow and an animal lives inside it?

they could easily just be a hoax

I have heard about this phenomenon for a while, and I have found a very reasonable explanation. It does have its problems though.

During the winter season, death valley recieves small amounts of rainfall (infinately small, it is death valley) and at night it freezes into a big sheet of ice.

When wind blows over the stones they move easier on the ice, sliding along with much less friction.

When morning comes, the ice begins to melt and crack, showing why the rocks form different trails in different directions. This freezing and unfreezing process could go on for many nights in a row.

I think it's a colony of supersized ants that come out only at certain times of the night and push the rocks around as a sport, so they can see who is strongest. Or perhaps there are some really strong dung beetles that have been pushing around dinosaur crap for the last 65 million years.

Hi Pendal

the moving rocks are a very interesting subject.
i believe that they may be an alien life form.
There is a rock on Dartmoor in Devon called the mew stone that is
supposed to move.

[Edit: Lightedfire, please don't post in caps. I've changed the case and corrected your spelling]

HA! My theory of giant ants is coming closer to reality...

camaras set around the area didnt catch any giant olympic ants, either. look, people have done just about everything you could think of to these rocks. after a while, there wont be a rock in death valley that hasnt been cracked, disected, frozen, tied in place, gluded down, blasted with acid, poked, prodded, shot, taken to laboratories, or sampled to find the rocks mineral (or in some cases, genetic ) makeup.

Oh sure, you're just out to attack my delusions! First my ewoks now my ants...next you're gonna tell me that the muppets aren't real and that they are just somekind of puppet...is there any room for my insanity in the world?

I think you can go to this web site for more information.

http://www.death-valley.us/article332.html

It seems that one explanation for the moving rocks is mud, water, and wind. These can get pretty extreme in Death Valley. Still, nothing has been proved.

Notice the area of the valley how the mud is in a kind of honeycomb pattern. Might could have something to do with CSE. (cavernous structures effect)

nah. its just the dirt gets muddy, then dries out really fast, so it contracts, froming cracks like that.

Here's another link about the moving rocks of racetrack playa. CLICK HERE

These rocks are pretty nifty. The ice sheet theory is ok but there is one problem, if the ice sheet and the rocks move together there would be no intersecting trails. And we can clearly see that some trails do cross each other during the same movement, so the ice theory doesn't really jive with me.

The wind and a slick muddy surface seems logical but I think we would see this phenomenom else where if it was just these two conditions that were needed to move the rocks.

I haven't found anything on seismology, a sharp vibration could move the rocks like that. The one site I found from Magikman's linked thread had maps of these rocks' paths. When I first looked at the maps I thought of vibrations. Where as a good example would be to put some pebbles on a washing machine on spin cycle the vibrations would move the pebbles all around like the paths on the maps. They do I just tried it.

just got an idea...what if it's because of a magnetic field there or somthing?

there was some little creature that lived in the oceans near north england, that lived in hollow rocks or something like that. maybe it is the same kind of thing. or it could be like the dunes at pemberton. the dunes can re-arrange themselves over night.

whisper
Good theory..
...yea,lets check it out...


Pheenix
...bout the creatures..can you details..??

A quick interesting item from About's paranormal section about AnimalsFound Sealed in Stone. Seems that in the 17 and 1800's, there were a bunch of "well-documented" cases people finding live toads and lizards which were completely encased in stone, with no discernible way that they had entered, or how they had survived in there. Some cases even report that there was an impression in the rock cavity in the shape and size of the animal. Also, there was supposedly a group of miners who in the 1850's in France, found a living pterodactyl in the same condition. It all seems highly unlikely, but fun nonetheless.
...you never know....

maybe all the people who had pet rocks were not so stupid after all, they seem really interesting now!

The way the rocks moved is similar to the way a glass moved by itself when a layer of condensation form between its bottom and the top of the table. Gently blow on it and watch it move across the tabletop.

So the same thing happend to the rock. It rained, forming a thin layer of layer and wind blew the rocks across the surface!

There! SOLVED!!!!
Bow to my superior intellect!!!!

i would have to go with the magnetism, or the techtonic vibrations...has ne one seen if these rocks have a high iron concentration? or, since that meteor hit california, couldnt these rocks maybe be part of that that got flung out, and now are shifting with the magnetism of the earth?

You have to keep in mind that these rocks could just be moved by a person who has devoloped advanced telekenisis. Or caused by earthquakes.

Of course! Why didn't i think of that!!?

Some guy has the power to move these rocks from miles away with his mind for the sheer hell of it.

psi guy, i think you've cracked it.

just a theroy

OK.. actualy because of the proximity of the site to the Area 51, these rocks are actualy government experiments on a new generation of bombs.

well like someone said before the easiest way would be to set up a time frame camera. of course maybe the person doesn't want to see what the camera would catch. would you be happy seeing a rock scutle across the desert or would it leave you even more bafled. my idea is it might be a type of beetle(ever seen dung beetles?) insects seems to be able to move over 100X there body weight. the beetles could be using the stone for protection and water(condensation) but that wouldn't explain why the beetle would want to move it around but does a bug really have a reason for anything?

i think hes been standing in the sun watching those rocks a bit too long.....

some guy wasted a lot of his time dragging a rock through some dirt.......

any new informations about these mystery rocks dude...??
i really love to hear it,please...

I heard somewhere the wind blew them...which is reall, really hillarious.

This is a similar conclusion to what I once saw on a TV program and one that is probably more logical.