A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax
I&#x27;ve been there and have mixed feelings about this.<p>On the one hand, the boulder has always seemed fishy to me. It&#x27;s a remote location and I doubt many people would track something that small, or care enough about it to know about the seasonal changes at that boulder. It also doesn&#x27;t make a lot of sense to me geologically, although it&#x27;s possible. I also years ago remember people familiar with the site jokingly talking about how &quot;<i>if</i> there were a boulder there...&quot; which lent the whole thing a sense of fiction when I started reading about it. It was easy to see how a humorous fantasy could change into folk legend and then into documentation.<p>On the other hand, where are the photos? Where&#x27;s the meticulous documentation? To trek all the way there to address this and then not take copious photos to share with the media?<p>They also got lost, which adds to my skepticism they even made it there, or were sure they did. Can you get lost there? I suppose -- there are a ton of islands and things there so I can see that -- but the area is blanketed with topo map coverage, and you&#x27;ve got GPS now. If someone were to get lost there, I&#x27;d question whether or not they even got to where they wanted to begin with. Siskiwit Lake is a fairly large feature on Isle Royale, and the nesting doll nature of the goal makes your target hard to miss.<p>In short, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the boulder isn&#x27;t there (or isn&#x27;t surrounded by water). However, I also wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if this guy and his mother never actually went to where they claimed to go.