Norway Lake Stone

[Sandsted]

I have a question, a little North of Willmar, Minnesota, there is a lake called Norway Lake. In it there is a runestone, now called the Norway Lake Runestone, I don't know exactly how it was found, there was someone out fishing or something that saw it and stood on it with their head out of the water. And now they've been trying to find it again, using under water cameras in the winter and scuba diving now. They haven't scuba dived yet, but also they were dowsing and they knew where the it was in the lake. But then when winter came they got no reaction, they went out on the ice and dowsed and got nothing, and they drilled 700 holes for under water cameras and came up with nothing. They're going to go out to the area scuba diving but haven't got out yet.

But nobody can figure out how the stone can just dissappear like that, its name has changed from Norway Lake Stone to Ghost stone.

Any answers?

[Tim Williams]

Is there an article on this stone maybe in a local paper or something we can read about it. Sounds like people are going through a great deal to find this stone. Hopefully no one found it and removed it. The stones location may be the key if there is anything there at all.

Tim

[Sandsted]

No, I don't know of anything. There isn't much more to say then what I've wrote.

[Sandsted]

Just an update, I have found some information, but I can't scan it on this computer, I'll put it on soon.

The stone was actually found in the 1800s, late when there was a huge drought and the lake dropped many feet, and then in the 1930s when that happened again. Old timers tell about jumping off of it into the water, there was an island formed there. And they would go out to it and swim there because of the nice sandy beach. Actually it wasn't an island then, the only photo was a government one in 1938 when the water dropped even more to make it into an island.

There were other rune stones there, checked this by dowsing, but they weathered completely away due to the water...