Sunday, June 8, 2008

Romania may be known as the land of Dracula, heaped with bloodthirsty vampires and other creatures shaped by Hollywood imagination, but it is also a land where nature has had an interesting activity.

Far less known to the world than Dracula, stand an impressive number of stones which quite literally grow by themselves. This may be a great subject for the next Stephen King novel: living stones attacking a group of American scientists, who were trying to investigate the roots of Dracula’s legend. The stones are real and known to mortals as Trovants. more....