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"The Racetrack"

Posted in Oddities by Greg Ross on February 1st, 2006

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In Death Valley, rocks move. No one's actually seen it happen, but they leave tracks hundreds of feet long. Experts think it's a combination of wind, ice, and mud, but some of the stones weigh as much as a man. One 700-pound rock disappeared altogether in May 1994. Hmm.