One thing is certain, there's no shortage of unexpected discoveries out there.

Sometimes all we need to do to find them is to dive a bit deeper.

Back in 2021, archaeologists from the University of Texas at Arlington announced that they

had found something startling beneath the waves of Lake Huron, which, if you know your

geography, is one of the great lakes, situated above and between Lake Michigan and Erie.

Now what they found wasn't necessarily groundbreaking in and of itself.

They were just flakes of a type of stone known as obsidian, that volcanic rock that looks

a lot like chunks of black glass.

Obsidian was highly valued by earlier cultures, because they could create sharp, useful

blades by flaking it into thin pieces.

And again, it's not odd to find them in a dig site.

What was odd though was that these obsidian flakes, dating back roughly 9,000 years, came

from a source that wasn't very local to the people who'd been using them.

It turns out this obsidian was from the Oregon area of the west coast of North America,

a distance of more than 2,000 miles.

Think about it, for a small and easy to overlook as these rocks might seem to most of us,

they hint at a much larger and more significant story, one that would have been missed entirely

if researchers hadn't decided to look underwater.

Not all stories begin and end on dry land.

Some tales it seems can only be found if we get a little wet, tread some water, and

brave the waves.

As we've learned over the years, folklore is a creature that thrives in the shadows,

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