These Racetrack Playa rocks weigh several hundred pounds, but still manage to inch their way across Death Valley National Park leaving long trails behind them. No one knows for sure how they move.

I can guarantee I will be at the bar later tonight trying desperately to convey to some poor, trapped soul how interesting/terrifying I find this phenomenon. “See, theese rocks…no boulders really….they’re huge….in the middle of nowhere…moving veeery slowly… (AO makes sinister creeping motion with hands)…”

This will fail completely. But we will know the real score, AO readers, won’t we?

Read more about these rocks coming to get you, slow but steady.

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