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The Williams Petradox / Enigmalith (Stone With Embedded Plug)

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Stone with plug letter in FT

Apologies if this has a thread elsewhere, I did search for it but couldnt find anything.

What do you make of the letter in this month's FT about the guy who found the stone with some sort of electrical plug embedded in it?
 
I mentioned it in the FT183 thread:

http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=363009#post363009
Link is obsolete. The current link is:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/issue-183.14437/#post-363009

but I suspect its worth its own tread so here is what I said:

Emperor said:
I thought the enigmalith (page 74) was interesting - its also here:

tsc-global.com/petradox.htm
Link is dead. The MIA webpage can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040427012305/http://www.tsc-global.com/petradox.htm

See the thread dedicated to this anomalous stone:
The Williams Petradox / Enigmalith (Stone With Embedded Plug)
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...ox-enigmalith-stone-with-embedded-plug.14477/

I have seen plenty of similar objects on the beach (without the metal prongs) - my guess is it is a piece of concrete which has been eroded and rounded by the sea (or by a river). What it originall was is unclear (esp. as it could have been nearly anything - although the metal prongs might be your clue).

Emps
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I'll stick with that theory for now - you'd need to know the area and the kind of buildings and such like upstream (although it is possible that someone caried it from a beach or a river elsewhere - I know it looks like the kind of thing I'd pick up ;) ).

Emps
 
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If you look at the bottom left photograph, you can see the prongs at clearly. It seems to me that the are surrounding them and the prongs 'holes' have been drilled into the rock - there's a small surrounding indentation around all of them.

It might have been the base for something (maybe a model of some sort) which had been attached to the rock by someone, the pins forming a secure fixture.

Either that or it's some alien rock verion of a Glade plug-in air freshener. ;)
 
It looks suspiciously like the three plugs that you stick the power lead to your kettle into to me.
 
My initial thought was that it's a "hot-rock", an artficial stone with a heating element inside it, used by reptile keepers to heat their animals, like this one:

http://www.zoomed.com/html/rock_heaters.php

If it is though, it's a fairly poor one, as it would need a separate plug and lead would create a risk of shorting out if a snake or lizard crapped on it.
Any other ideas?
 
There was this little three-legged Stonecritter, minding it's own business, basking in the sun then some pillock comes along and starts making "Von Daniken" noises!

It's hard enough when people keep catching you to use the copper-brass of your wee little legs to make crap folk-art jewellery to sell at Hippy conventions ...
 
It was featured in last months UFO magazine and the consensus was it was probably a "rock speaker". They had obtained photo's of similar ones from an American magazine.
 
What's a rock speaker? sounds like something from the flintstones.
 
Pete Younger said:
What's a rock speaker? sounds like something from the flintstones.
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See:

http://images.google.com/images?q="rock speaker"

It sounds more like somehting Man O' War would use - at one time allegedly the loudest band ever (at somewhere near 130 dB). If this picture is anything to go by them might aslo be going for 'least sleeves on a heavy metal band':

http://www.manowar.ch/band.html

Back to the rock speakers - perhaps we need to find soemone with one to take photos of the underside (not the kind of thing often photographed).

Emps
 
It looks fake to me. Super-fake, one might say. At first I thought you guys were talking about the Coso artifact (which was also a hoax if I remember correctly, just a 1920's sparkplug with some caked-on mud), but even that doesn't strike me as being so blatantly false. I'm fairly certain I could make a copy of this "artifact" with a plain old rock and a power drill if I wanted to waste ten minutes of my "precious time."

It reminds me of something I found as a child. It looked like oversized circuitry coming out of some sort of stone, and I was convinced it was some kind of alien technology. It was even slightly magnetic! Turned out to be a piece of a hair brush, or something as equally and embarassingly mundane.
 
Originally posted by Sertile
It was even slightly magnetic! Turned out to be a piece of a hair brush, or something as equally and embarassingly mundane.
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Magnetic hair brush? bet that made your hair stand up.
 
Looks like the inside of a 3 pin mic connector, which would fit with some kind of audio recording/listeing device.
 
Bump for updated info and access to the photos discussed above ...

Here is the introductory text that appeared on the now-MIA webpage announcing the find and soliciting feedback.
"The WILLIAMS PETRADOX" or
"The WILLIAMS ENIGMALITH"

a Coast to Coast Cover Story (coasttocoastam.com, 4/6/04)

a UFO Magazine Cover Story (Feb.2004 issue)

Rock with Embedded Manmade-Like Electrical-Like Component Discovered!
Where did this mystery Rock come from? What was/is its purpose?
Is it of Alien or UFO origin? Was it made by an Advanced Lost Civilization?
Is it of an Alien or Lost Advanced Civilization Technology we dare not ignore?
Is it a Healing Stone? A Crosse 'God Stone'? (clear photos & much more below!)
By: John J. Williams, M.S.E.E., CEO Consumertronics, P.O. Box 23097, Albuquerque, NM 87192
[email protected] <= For comments, criticisms, suggestions, questions. Email Subject Line: "Mystery Rock Inquiry."

In 1998, while on a hike, I found a mystery Rock with an embedded manmade-like electrical-like component (see images below). Is it of alien or UFO origin? Made by a high-tech ancient people or advanced lost civilization? Of modern man-made origin? What was its purpose? Was the component formed with my Rock? Or was somehow later built or press-fitted into my Rock? Have you ever heard or seen a similar phenomena? Would you like to evaluate my Rock as a paid professional consultant? Do you believe that my Rock is a hoax/prank and would like to debunk it ($100 Contest Rules below; provide make and model/part # proof of rock or its embedded component)?
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SALVAGED FROM THE WAYBACK MACHINE:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040427012305/http://www.tsc-global.com/petradox.htm

(Full Presentation At The Link Above)
 
This really reminds me of my old Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World book, and some of the anomalies that he reported, such as the frogs in the flint nodules, hominid teeth in coal and other such apparent incongruities.

I think Colin Wilson also covered some of these apparent finds, but many of them appear to be from the early industrial age, or similar and so genuine provenance is hard to prove.
 
Ascalon said:
This really reminds me of my old Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World book, and some of the anomalies that he reported, such as the frogs in the flint nodules, hominid teeth in coal and other such apparent incongruities. ...
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... And we have threads dedicated to many different sorts of such things. The most general threads should be find-able by searching on 'OOPArts'.
 
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