Philadelphia Weirdness

The Strangeness Of Inanimate Objects!

There appears to be nothing exciting about the two, very large stone benches which flank the Smith Memorial Arch in West Fairmount Park. The monument has no eerie story, it is simply there to honor the Civil War heroes. However, these benches have often been given the name The Whispering Benches, for it is said that should you sit at one end and whisper a sentence, then your words will echo true and clear at the other.

At Upper Black Eddy in Bucks County, another set of inanimate objects appear to harbor strange powers that have never been fully explained. A field of rocks is the setting, the place close to where George Washington made his Delaware River crossing. The field covers some seven acres and appears not be very unusual except for the fact that the rocks which sit there are said to make a ringing noise!

Many people have flocked to the field, and tried out the ringing mystery, tinkering away on the rocks with a hammer. Strangely, not all of the rocks ring yet each one is said to be formed of the same substance, so the there are two mysteries: why do the rocks ring and why do only some of the rocks ring?

The area appears bereft of vegetation and paranormal resarchers claim that animals and insects often steer clear of the field.

The solutions to the ringing rocks and whipsering benches may lie with science, but such anomalies intrigue the world with their quirks. Until the mysteries are fully explained, those objects will always remain the stuff of legend.

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