Historians claimed that the town had been built into the rock due to the extreme heat of the local climate - it was easier than saying that all sources from the time claimed the mountain had just appeared overnight and left most of their homes in the absolute darkness of granite caves.
Even the time and date are exact across the entire spectrum of sources - from the diary of a clergyman to a local newspaper to a letter from one local to their cousin in Greece. It's clear that everyone was talking about it and was sharing the news yet painfully few sources outside of the town hold the same records. Either is was classed as nonsense or it wasn't a surprise, perhaps a regular occurrence - after all, there are so many cities built in and under "natural" mountains, aren't there?
This particular case is most notable for the homes that are built deep inside, as previously mentioned when the mountain allegedly just appeared overnight. The streets between houses have names carved along them, a mixture of traditional gravestones and modern graffiti. Some think these are the names of those who were outside when the mountain appeared, who lost limb and life to it. This goes hand-in-hand with the rumours that there are skeletons half buried in the stone down a certain alleyway.
Local superstition and rumour aside there is one other strange thing about the mountain village and that is inside the stone itself. Fossils, to be exact, originating from a large crater on a completely different continent. The oldest maps of that area show that there was a hill there which was originally put down to artistic interpretation like the sea monsters on old oceanographic diagrams until the mountain was climbed.
Dozens of human skeletons were dotted about the top, all in varying states of being pulled into the stone or perhaps trying to escape it. That and the plant samples that had somehow survived, confirmed to be a mix of grass and local scrub bushes matching those around the crater make for a truly compelling case.
But still it brings back the question - why was the rest of the world unsurprised?
Even the time and date are exact across the entire spectrum of sources - from the diary of a clergyman to a local newspaper to a letter from one local to their cousin in Greece. It's clear that everyone was talking about it and was sharing the news yet painfully few sources outside of the town hold the same records. Either is was classed as nonsense or it wasn't a surprise, perhaps a regular occurrence - after all, there are so many cities built in and under "natural" mountains, aren't there?
This particular case is most notable for the homes that are built deep inside, as previously mentioned when the mountain allegedly just appeared overnight. The streets between houses have names carved along them, a mixture of traditional gravestones and modern graffiti. Some think these are the names of those who were outside when the mountain appeared, who lost limb and life to it. This goes hand-in-hand with the rumours that there are skeletons half buried in the stone down a certain alleyway.
Local superstition and rumour aside there is one other strange thing about the mountain village and that is inside the stone itself. Fossils, to be exact, originating from a large crater on a completely different continent. The oldest maps of that area show that there was a hill there which was originally put down to artistic interpretation like the sea monsters on old oceanographic diagrams until the mountain was climbed.
Dozens of human skeletons were dotted about the top, all in varying states of being pulled into the stone or perhaps trying to escape it. That and the plant samples that had somehow survived, confirmed to be a mix of grass and local scrub bushes matching those around the crater make for a truly compelling case.
But still it brings back the question - why was the rest of the world unsurprised?
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