Travis Louie, The Mighty "Moonstone", 2012, acrylic on board, 29 x 29"
The giant floater of Utah was first seen
hovering over lakes and ponds during the warm season in 1877. When
Charles Lansing unearthed a shiny opal-like boulder during a dig for
dinosaur bones, he had no idea what he had found. He managed to haul the
large "stone" to his barn a few miles away. That evening, the great
stone came to life. To Charles' amazement, it crashed through the roof
of his barn and floated into the sky. It emitted a soft glowing light
and moved at such a slow rate, people who saw it in the night sky
thought it was the moon. For the next twenty years, it always came back
to Charles' barn to hide during the daytime and lay dormant during the
winter months. When Charles passed away in 1897, the great stone
reburied itself and was never seen again. |