Stone cold wonder: A petrified man pulled from Montana’s Missouri River in 1897 was marketed as murdered Civil War governor Thomas Meagher. The exhibit toured nationally before fading into obscurity – and the figure has never been found.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/mysteries/petrified-man-of-the-missouri-river

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