pixabay.com

In May of 1988, thirteen-year-old Jamie Parks and his friend, Trevor Johnson, went into the woods in Washington state near the Canadian border and found a bizarre rock. When Jamie Inadvertently knocked moss off the rock, he found what looked like strange, cryptic, alien-like drawings on it. It was later thought that the markings belonged to an ancient Native American Tribe.

Archaeological excavating and carbon dating procedures have established a human presence at Tumwater Falls on the Deschutes River as far back as 2,500 to 3,000 years ago. The Nisqually and Squaxon tribes gradually established themselves in the area. They built a settlement of longhouses at the falls, which they called Tum-wa-ta, meaning “strong water,” and wintered on a peninsula they called Cheet-Woot (the present-day site of Olympia).

Trevor showed it to his parents, and afterwards, the Johnson family began to have a stroke of good luck, including the opening of several stores in a local mall and becoming very wealthy, they believe it was because of the "mystery rock."

A still taken from the story "Mystery Rock" on Unsolved Mysteries, air date Nov. 1988

From left to right, the four foot slab bears markings that resemble the rays of the sun, a water drop, two clumps of grass or perhaps a rising sun, an inverted keyhole, a backwards ‘D’, a triangle and an ‘X’ with a circle above the apex. Rick McClure, a US Forest Service archeologist who specializes in the study of petroglyphs believed it had been carved with metal tools within the last 100 years.

According to this passage from http://www.skepticfiles.org *:

This Awareness indicates that this rock appears to have been that of an ancient Indian tribe that has long been extinct. This appears to have been in association with Indians who traveled in a southern direction. This Awareness indicates that it appears that the carvings were placed there approximately 700 years ago.

This Awareness indicates that it appears these carvings were not, nor was the rock, so much the bringer of good luck, but rather that the entities' cycle, which comes about in terms of one's horoscope and certain cycles, reached a point in which the entities were to begin experiencing good luck, good fortune. This Awareness indicates the finding of the rock was part of that good fortune.

This Awareness indicates, however, that it does appear that the symbols of the rock, when used by individuals with the story being told that the rock and the good luck accompanied each other, can serve as a trigger to influence an individual's subconscious into believing that the symbols can bring good luck; and in so acting as a suggestion, have an effect of helping to bring good luck to entities.

This Awareness suggests that in this sense, it works much like the placebo which the entity believes is a cure-all for his ills, or the good luck charm which an entity may believe in as bringing good fortune, and as long as the entity carries it, focuses on good fortune and therefore energizes good fortune, and to that extent, enjoys good fortune.

This Awareness indicates that the mind expecting good fortune tends to get it; the mind expecting difficulties and ill fortune tends to draw that to them. Therefore, it can serve as a suggestive force to bring good luck if it is marketed or promoted properly, with the right kind of suggestions.

This Awareness indicates that it appears it already has taken on the legend or aura of good luck from the stories that have been told, and this, in turn, is energizing the symbols to bring good luck.

The revelations of the Mystery Rock remain today.

Resources:

*REVELATIONS OF AWARENESS is a cosmic newsletter, published by Cosmic

Awareness Communications, Box 115, Olympia, WA  98507, a not-for-profit organization

 http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Mystery_Rock

 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7979

 http://www.skepticfiles.org/skeptic/aware417.htm

 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1345&dat=19880624&id=A0NYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5fkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3460,1346731&hl=en

Originally posted by LFN Member Joseph Morningstar