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From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Newsgroups: rec.misc,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Holes in Granite
Message-ID: <1471@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 10:44:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 10:44:13 1987
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In article <3013@whuts.UUCP> fv@whuts.UUCP (FRANKLIN) writes:
>While hiking up Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire this past weekend
>I noticed some odd holes in the granite on the top of the mountain.
>These holes were about 3-4 inches in diameter, about the same
>amount deep and were fairly circular in appearance.

>Has anyone seen these elsewhere or know what may have caused
>them?

What you have found are the footprints of the dreaded Fujiwatsu.  The
Fujiwatsu looks something like a cross between a goat and giant seal,
with fangs and three legs like fenceposts with knees.  It is immensely
powerful, and bounds from planet to planet in our solar system.
Naturally, when it lands it leaves holes in even the hardest rock.
Cannon Mountain is a place it lands infrequently, which is why you
found only a few holes.  Other mountain peaks and some lower rocky
places are riddled with these holes.

NASA once had a plan to lasso this creature and use it to haul
astronauts to other planets, but this plan was discarded as too
dangerous:  the Fujiwatsu eats things the size and consistency of space
capsules for lunch.  In fact, many of the iron meteorites that fall on
this planet are probably its feces.
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