Some small, wide-eyed visitors have recently appeared in Grand Forks,
North Dakota.
Small rocks with glued-on googly eyes have been spotted around the city
in the last few weeks. The mystery rocks are located around the downtown
area.
They’ve been noticed by residents and are the source of much intrigue,
probably because no one seems to know who made them or left them around
the city.
“I’m not sure how they got there. I’ve been wondering myself,” said Mary
Weaver. “We’ve been seeing them around the parks and they’re not always
in full view, sometimes they’re hiding.”
Some of the rocks are sitting in large groups in plain sight, but some
are by themselves or in pairs, perched on business window sills or
partially hidden by plants.
Brian Baier noticed a pair of googly-eyed rocks sitting on a stone
pillar outside the Chester Fritz Library. Baier has run into the
mysterious rocks downtown as well, much to the delight of his young
daughters.
“Most recently, I had my two girls, we were walking around downtown and we went to the Arbor Park where there’s a whole gaggle?
I don’t know, what do you call a group of bug-eyed rocks?” he
asked. “There’s a lot of them there. We kept finding them everywhere we
looked.”
Baier said even his daughters wanted to know the origin of the rocks.
“Yeah, my girls were quite excited about it, and of course they asked
why they were there, and I said, ‘I think someone’s just enjoying making
people ask why they’re here,’” Baier said.
Will Martin was also excited by the rocks’ appearance.
“They’re cool,” he said. “It’s a nifty little thing. Who is responsible
for the googly rocks? One of the great mysteries of Grand Forks.”
Wherever they came from, the presence of the googly-eyed rocks in
unexpected locations has charmed people, like Kathy Holle of New Salem.
“Yes, they did brighten our day,” she said. “We were in Grand Forks to
visit our son and his wife last weekend and stopped at a pocket park
downtown when we started noticing them. It certainly made us smile. And
look around for more. We, too, are curious.”
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