Mysterious Indiana Tree Boulder Falls
Written for the web by Jason Kobely, Internet News Producer  


NASHVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- One of the strangest sights in Indiana is no
more, but the mystery about it continues.

It's a century-old chestnut oak tree that held a giant rock wedged in
its branches. The 400-pound sandstone boulder was about 40 feet off the
ground.
Debbie Dunbar of the Brown County Convention and Visitors Bureau
discovered that the tree had fallen down when she took a travel writer
to the site in southern Indiana's Yellowwood State Forest.

Known as Gobbler's Rock, it was first spotted in 1998. Since then, a
half dozen others trees containing boulders have been discovered in the
area.
Forest property manager Jim Allen thought maybe tornadoes were lifting
the big rocks into trees, but now thinks somebody with ropes and pulleys
is doing it. He said as long as the elevated rocks aren't a danger,
he'll leave them up.

The question now is who's doing it, and, more to the point, why.