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Odd magnetic stone. Perplexing...or not.

Monday, June 18, 2012

This video of a stone with apparent magnetic properties has been posted on YouTube. Problem is, it doesn't function like a magnet--at least, not one without another magnetic field nearby to cause it to move. However, the first part of the video shows the object on a wooden table. There could easily be a powerful magnet under the table. The second video is more subtle--the object appears on a glass table. But look closely. A third of the glass is obscured by what appears to be a stone base. So, is the magnet hidden there? As always, there's a remote possibility that this is something genuinely anomalous. How your Out There editor longs for that ONE video that is beyond dispute!

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Might it be a naturally formed "rattleback"? Here's the wiki-link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattleback.

Posted by Joseph Martin on 19 Jun 2012 at 18:27

Check this video by klaus Dona for strange objects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmMwo1Xzgus&list=FLIMC1dP6obtpK2WOcd2WHNA...

Posted by 19 times on 20 Jun 2012 at 02:25

Just look at 3 seconds in - the object moves before he has even touched it, so my guess is that the magnet is hidden in this guy's hand.

The object probably does have magnetic properties, I am not denying that but it is definitely interacting with an external magnet.

Posted by CHRISTOPHER HUGHES on 20 Jun 2012 at 12:33

I have one of these that is made out of plastic. I bought it at OLD TOWN near orlando. It is the shape of the object that will not let it spin in one direction.

Posted by Fred Ecker on 22 Jun 2012 at 00:46

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattleback

Posted by Fred Ecker on 22 Jun 2012 at 01:06

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattleback

Posted by Fred Ecker on 22 Jun 2012 at 01:06

When I watched this at first, it was on my mobile phone, without sound. Now I have had a chance to watch it with better quality and sound, I tend to agree with the other posters that the object is a 'Rattleback' - I want one!

Posted by CHRISTOPHER HUGHES on 23 Jun 2012 at 11:03

The "Rattleback" explanation seems likely, but then there's the fact that it moves, in the first few seconds of the video, before it is touched. I think there's at least two causes in operation.

Posted by Mark Mywords on 24 Jun 2012 at 22:41
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