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Saturday, 8 June 2019

Written in Stone

Bill Gunther didn’t know much about how to track Bigfoot, but he knew enough to tell people that his hobby was called “cryptozoology.” As a full-time landscaper, Bill knew rocks. He knew that the big boulders you see pushed to the sides of yards and farm fields in Michigan and other Northern states had been pushed down by Canadian glaciers and deposited at the end of the last ice age. So when he studied the residential areas where dark, leathery-winged beings had been seen, Bill quickly noticed what all the sites had in common: 4 ft boulders in the flower beds, 3 ft boulders propping up bird-baths, 5 ft boulders at the edge of a property line.

What are these winged figures? What message is hidden in the stones? And what happened to Bill Gunther?

Possibilities

1 Using stones of a certain size and type, cultists marked the routes where some nightgaunts are known to travel, in hopes of finding and trapping the creatures more easily. These nightgaunts are rather harmless and neutral if left alone. The cultists killed Gunther to stop his meddling.

2 Plant-based creatures similar to nightgaunts hatch from these boulders. It may be difficult to find any of the creatures after they hatch, since they have no reason to return to their eggs. Fortunately Gunther left notes detailing what the egg-boulders look like.

3 The winged figures were erroneous reports, but what other blasphemies did the glaciers deposit? By bringing together enough of these empowered stones, cultists plan to raise the young god hiding beneath Kettle Lake (which was formed by a melting glacier).

© Rob Northrup

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