FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — They are called “conscience” rocks and there are piles of them in northern Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Unlike the “pet rock” craze of past years, these rocks aren’t ...

There’s beautiful trails and a storybook lake at the Escalante Petrified Forest State Park near Escalante, along with plenty of campsites and a luxurious bathroom facility — the floor is heated and ...

In Netflix’s dark comedy “Dead to Me,” the superstitious Judy asks her ex-fiancé Steve if their recent bad luck was caused by his having stolen a cursed rock on a trip to the Petrified Forest in ...

As Nichole Schwend weaves through the basalt rocks that litter Celebration Park, she points to faint engravings on the dark desert rocks and asks visitors what they see. One carving near the ...

HOLBROOK -- Under a cloudless southwestern sky, Kip Woolford drives his vehicle down a bumpy road out of sight of visitors to Petrified Forest National Park. Woolford, who is a ranger at the park, ...

Would you take this rock? People who steal from Petrified Forest tell stories of their terrible luck. In 1980, an anonymous writer sent some stolen rocks back to Petrified Forest National Park along ...

Here’s something that ought to pump some life blood into moon-landing-conspiracy theorists everywhere. If you visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam over the last 17 years and thought you saw a genuine ...

HOLBROOK , Ariz. – The first letter turned up at Petrified Forest National Monument in 1935 all the way from Budaun, India. It was addressed to "The Officer in Charge." " Dear Sir," it began, the ...

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