Forty feet below Lake Michigan in Grand Traverse Bay, a mysterious pattern of stones rises from an otherwise sandy half-mile of lake floor. Likely the stones are a natural feature.
Forty feet below the surface of Lake Michigan in Grand Traverse Bay, a mysterious pattern of stones can be seen rising from an otherwise sandy half-mile of lake floor. Likely the stones are a natural feature. But the possibility they are not has piqued the interest of archaeologists, native tribes and state officials since underwater archaeologist Mark Holley found the site in 2007 during a survey of the lake bottom.
According to BLDGBLOG, in 2007, Mark Holley, professor of underwater archeology at Northwestern Michigan College, discovered a series of stones arranged in a circle 40 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan. One stone outside the circle seems to have carvings that resemble a mastodonan elephant-like animal that went extinct about 10,000 years ago.