PETRIFIED FINGER/TOE?

[keezer29]

I found this in a creek and thought I could make a story up to my kids about some indian who lost his finger fighting a grizzly bear, but now I think it might be real. What do you think?

 

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[72cheyenne]

Welcome to Tnet there keezer. That thing is freaking weird!! Don't have a clue, but it sure looks like the end of a finger.

 

[collector01]

cool find I found one just like it several years ago, I think its some type of coral or something similar I found mine near a bunch of other fossiles but it did look just like my big toe.

 

[Roger Mn.]

It looks real.
Now don't be scaring your kids unless you want to be woke up all hours of the night.

 

[Noodle]

Have it scraped for DNA, then you'll know. Looks like a rock to me, sorry...

 

[gxray]

It was fairly common practice amongst some American Indian tribes to wear necklaces made up of the fingers of advesaries as "trophies"...similar to collecting scalps. I have seen pictures in the past of indians wearing necklaces of fingers ...that being said , I think you may have a petrified finger or toe on your hands (no pun intended...lol)

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Dude! bury that thing! Even if it is real why would you want to know! lol looks like a rock anyway

 

[gxray]

If my memory serves me correctly , I saw one of these necklaces on display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington DC.

 

[gxray]

http://books.google.com/books?id=RE...X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPA126,M1

 

[ivan salis]

oh if its the real deal ---- its not a thing to be triffled with --the injured dead persons spirit might return for it* or the warroir who's trophy you now "claim" for your own that he won in battle might be miffed -- that your claiming his "prize" that he risked his life for ---or the old indain lady that cut it off in "revenge" for the loss of a son, husband , freind or lover and cast it away

hopefully its NOT real --its just a bit of stone -- a very very creepy looking bit of stone.

ps if weird stuff starts occuring --put it back with a bit of tobbacco as a "peace offering"

 

[Monty]

I don't think human beings have been around long enough for their fingers to be fossilized? But it is a strange and interesting rock. Looks like river rock to me? Monty

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

that's creepy!

 

[TheDane]

Hi all !

It is definately a fossil !

It can NOT be a petrified human finger or toe.
It has to be many, many millions of years older in order to petrify !!!

Funny thou that the fossil looks like a human finger or toe !!

Super find !

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Hey KEEZER, Put that sucker on ebay. I would just love to see how many people that would actually bid on it. Yeah, tell them it was the finger of a famous grizzly bear encounter. hehehe

 

[Peeber]

You have to just throw it away! You can't give it to somebody. It is not socially acceptable to give somebody the finger!

 

[truckinbutch]

Hey KEEZER, Put that sucker on ebay. I would just love to see how many people that would actually bid on it. Yeah, tell them it was the finger of a famous grizzly bear encounter. hehehe

Hugh Glass's , by golly ! Verified by the griz that bit him on the .......er , finger .

 

[RELICDUDE07]

I would carry it at all times,kinda like a lucky pocket piece!!!!!!!!

 

[RPG]

Looks can be deceiving. It's a cool looking piece though.
Randy

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Geologic concidence.

Bone ossifies (fossils). Meat rots. It certainly wouldn't "petrify" in a nice plump fingertip. It would be kind of shriveled up.

 

[UncleVinnys]

This is an easy riddle to solve, with no pesky mathematics required.

When you boil it in water with potatoes, does it make soup?

Good one, Plehbah!

I was gonna say - it's one of 'em COPROLITE things - -
petrified dinosaur dropping.
Though I'm not sure about the dinosaur part,
OR the petrified part, for that matter!

(Clue: Bad joke!)