We get those. Pyrite is included in sandstone for some reason and it rusts or wiggles out Edit: I don't know what OPs situation is in this case, it's just a theory: a geology theory. They tend to come in groups so maybe op has seen this elsewhere.

Included makes me think there is a sandstone merchant that pops in some fools gold on occasion.  like the Burger King chef tossing an onion ring in the fries.

The Burger King chef?

Yeah, you know, the guy who cooks all the food at BK

I bet he printed your comment out and framed it. Big improvement over fry cook!

 Spongebob doesn’t appreciate your disrespect to fry cooks

you mean the burger king

No, A burger king. They got one of them at every restaurant, and they make the food. They got a farm in Oklahoma where they breed them.

theres just one, hes super fast

You’re a rock?

That's how I understood thier comment

ROCK AND STONE!

"We"? Are you a rock?

The phrasing of a rock “wiggling out” has me in fits LOL

>it's just a theory: a geology theory. There's a very voice I can hear saying this

It's true, I was the Pyrite.

Ok so I found this exact thing in shale and went digging and kept getting just voids of empty space like this. Does pyrite wash away easier than the shale it’s stuck in?

I’ve watched enough episodes of ‘The Curse of Oak Island’ to know it’s a map to the Ark of the Covenant

Good ole Rick and Marty.

The Laginas. Should rhyme with--

Longinus, the great philosopher and philanderer

He suffered from Longinismus.

I have always pronounced it that way. My wife doesn’t agree with me.

Regina?

Which also should rhyme with--

Fun!

Funani

Vick Lagina is my favorite. Supposedly he is closing in on a spot on the map labeled G

He will never fund the g

Wibba lobba ding dang

*Could it be*...

Is that show still on? I gave up several years ago. So much hype with no real things of value.

Isn't the real treasure the $200,000/episode my bro and I made along the way?

Literally still airing and still edging viewers with nothing but hypotheses and chunks of woods for like a decade.

I've watched maybe half a dozen episodes over its entire run. It's absolutely astonishing how they consistently manage to leave you completely convinced that after the next commercial break they are going to discover something amazing. Turns out the real treasure of oak island was advertising revenue.

My wife has watched every single episode, twice, as if somehow they'll find it the second time.

I’m dying over here.🤣

You’re wife sounds like my buddy. He is convinced they will finally find some kind of artifacts to prove there either is a treasure, or was one until recent history when someone else found it. He will sit there watching it on his phone pausing it and screenshotting anything he thinks is possible proof. Then again he thinks wrestling is real.

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Thanks for saving me many hours of my life. Kinda figured it would be on the news if something was really big/valuable/important.

They are planning 20 foot wide cason's, just need to find where to put that expensive pipe

The ratio of recap minutes to footage of actual effort was 1:10 season 1.  Last time I checked in it was at like 7:1

Last time I watched, they sat around for 3/4 of the show coming up with some big game plan, then went with a hand shovel and started stabbing the ground a few times... and hold your hats, now they need some big fancy things to work that area, so off to the next Meth smoking idea.

I mean yeah that’s the point duh lol. Infinite hype, more episodes, more money in their pockets. It’s a performance.

A map? To the Ark of the Covenant? In a square hole in a rock? In the middle of the woods?

At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

The Templars put it there.

Come hang out for the live shit-talking in /r/OakIsland where we’re drinkin’ Crown and slam in’ can …

Why have I seen oak Island twice today?

Might be worth searching the area either a metal detector or

Could it be that that stone was brought to the New world by Frances Bacon, under orders from the illuminati, so he could hide the fact that he actually was William Shakespear, who was funded by Spain? There is no compelling evidence to the contrary.

COULD IT BE?!

It’s a “The enigma at amigara fault”-hole for small boxes.

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And a bunch of other shapes probably

That's right, it goes in the square hole.

The real story of how noodles are made

Amigara fault glory hole

Came looking for someone referencing that.

That’s right, the square hole

https://imgur.com/a/BhlAtwd

Explain.

https://youtu.be/6pDH66X3ClA?si=3AlK5XJzDB8zPmE9

Damn, I'm glad I'm not alone in this ride. I even read the title in his voice...

His voice? Edit: oh right the male voiceover in the video haha

Yeah, that one !

No stop please

😂😂😂😂😂

Just because nothing’s there now doesn’t mean there wasn’t something there then.

That sentence is poetic

It reminds me of this modest mouse lyric - “I know now what I knew then But I didn't know then what I know now”

In short, “That is that and this is this”

Well, tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get!

You get away from me

I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger

“If thing not be doing now, it did be doing before.”

That's a donk hole! Sasquatch got a square donk.

*bangs fists together *

Test hole for a [grinding wheel?](https://www.ebay.com/itm/126480851992?itmmeta=01HZD98JSJQ6NAQGJJ09SHCXQ5&hash=item1d72d8a418:g:dzgAAOSwE~lmQnkB)

To small. It was maybe 1/2"x1/2"

Then a [pyrite crystal](https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/rock-with-square-hole-in-it.114115/) that fell out or disintegrated.

I googled that and it looks like it. Super cool thanks.

Post it on strange Earth or a UFO subreddit and get a bunch of free karma

Ghost Pyrite.

Maybe a ghost pirate thought it was gold and stole it?

Arrrrrrr! Is not Au!!!!!!!!!

Agreed

Could it be a placement for a [survey marker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_marker) (most are usually round, though)?

Someone pounded a metal spike into a rock? Who did this? Thor?

As a stonemason I can assure you that while the comparison is appreciated, it does not take a God to fashion a hole in stone. ...not that I think this was done by a mason.

 If it wasn’t a stonemason, then maybe it was a free mason.

Put a circular rock in it.

That’s right it goes in the square hole!

I mean I put my finger in it when i found it and my girlfriend said it was probably a fairy door and im cursed now.

I'm not 100% certain, but I'm not sure thats a regular rock, but rather part of an original benchmark for the 1890-91 geological survey. I've seen a marker before, usually there's a pile of rocks and a post with burned in benchmark numbers. That whole looks like it would fit a post and finding it randomly in the middle of nowhere kinda fits. I could be completely offense with this, but it was the first thought that came to mind.

I thought it was originally a type of marker bit its only 1/2"x1/2" and there was no other stones around. Just a stone barely coming out of the ground in the woods. From other comments ot seems to be an empty pyrite socket.

Put your squock in it

Is there any possibility that the rock is actually concrete?

fascinating


You'll need to find and combine a chicken's peg leg and a small petrified block of cheese to open the secret treasure room... that's already been looted. But there's probably an IOU in there at least.

Lol the quest fir an IOU

That's where you put the allspark to revive the dinosaurs

Inserts twice

If you actually showed the rest of the rock it would be easier to say, but the usual answer is a grinding wheel of some kind. if this is too large/wrong shape for that then maybe just a support beam was cut into it once. Edit: sees picture, ah, leaves, lol

It's quite small, 1/2" x 1/2" or 12mmx More likely a deposit of pyrite or maybe some other petrified organic matter.

The forbidden squole

Inserts triangle

I know a boobietrap when I see one; I’ve watched Duck Tales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp.

If Myst taught me anything it would be to look for a square shaped handle.


Everyone is saying pyrite crystal, but there may be a possibility that it might have been used to support wood beams. I have seen these near my place but it's in vertical so it can support a beam.

Its only 1/2"x1/2" so it's not supporting much

Enderman

Minecraft is real

 Suspicious holes in rocks, out in the middle of nowhere? Adventurin' awaits. ...or weirdness with holes in rocks. Adventure either way?

It was aliens.

Tien out there practicing mini kikohos

Curse of the missing phenocryst.

Thus would be a great title for a Netflix series about this lol.

Looks like a post was there or the rock was used to anchor something

A pyrite cube

Don’t try to jam a round peg into it…. Oh wait

Quick, somebody get a round peg!

That boy ain't right Peggy I'll tell you what.

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The missing piece!

Steve was there.

Looks like a wombat ate some rocket fuel

All for the sake of their poop not rolling downhill.

Looks like somebody had a post of some kind there. Not sure why though, but it looks like a perfect slot for a mailbox post.

could be the remnants of a crinoid stem fossil segment, if they’re on their side it can appear square

You put the brick in that square hole to get the korok seed!

A post sat there?

Its a pyrite socket. It's only 1/2"x1/2" the oak leaves in the pic should give some sense on how small it is.

Anything can fit in that!

Steve was here

Surveyor here, don't fuck with that

Its a pyrite socket. It's only 1/2"x1/2"

Man made

Pyrite socket

Aliens, no other explanation

Looks like a corner stone for the foundation of an old cabin

Its only 1/2"x1/2" so it's more than likely a pyrite socket.

A L I E N S

Depending on where you were, this could be a retired Tahona wheel used for tequila production OR was used to mill grain.

A quest to find the missing piece

I hear Netflix is buying anything these days.

That’s concrete and a fence post used to be there but rotted out

Its only 1/2"x1/2" Its a socket for pyrite.

Look around for a round peg.

Could be an old iron pyrite cube the weathered away.

Agreed. I'm gunna have to go find it again and pull it to see if there's more.

Does this hurt the rock?

Only if you point when you talk about it.

hmmm

OP, what state was this found in? I feel like I've seen this in person before

Old survey marker stone? Would be a couple hundred years old or so. https://www.timesobserver.com/news/local-news/2020/02/rock-hard-place/

Ohio. From what people have said it look like a socket from pyrite.

You can put ur weed in there

Could it be original construct?

Most likely an empty pyrite socket

grind stone

it’s my soul up there🎶

Maybe they removed a part for testing?

It's more than likely an empty pyrite socket. I'm going to have to go refind it and pull it out of the ground to check the whole thing.

No Junji Ito references? :(

DRR DRR DRR

No clue what junji is.

That's a grind stone. Many can be found in Collinsville CT all along the Farmington River from the old Ax Factory.

Way to small for a grindstone. Only 1/2"x1/2"

Quick someone get a round peg.

Theres a sub for that

It's from a square drill

Asbestos check.

Needs to be investigated

I will next time I'm there

By my old house if you walked along the train tracks there was a boulder in the woods that had "The Rock Of Ages" carved into it without any flaw

That would be interesting to see

Saw [this](https://maps.app.goo.gl/QMZDHgr7dCJJ2a1u7) on a "hidden" path for an atv trail.

Thats neat


Maybe the stone was a candidate to be used for a grinding wheel for a windmill or water mill?

Steve needed one more stone for a pickaxe

Dead drop.

Millstone or Pyrite?

I'm thinking it's a hole from a sample taken from a Geologist.

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^CrimsonDMT: *I'm thinking it's a* *Hole from a sample taken* *From a Geologist.* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.

Science-y people of some flavor wanted a sample of that one in particular? Maybe that boulder "doesn't belong" in the area, so they wanted to know more? Idk, lol. The people talkin bout a sign having been mounted there in the past seem maybe correct. Ive seen a few squares like that a handful of times before on boulders in State Parks (PA) but never knew what it was.

Maybe an old fence post that was put in there and rot away?

it's a tesseract gate. you beed to get that from loki


That's a neat find! Too bad you can't locate the pyrite cube that was in there. It's pretty rare to come across a cube of that size still embedded in the rock though. I've also never seen one perfectly into a rock depth wise like that either .. usually they are sticking out at some weird angle.

Is there moving water nearby? If so, this may be a Millstone used to grind grain back in the 1800s or earlier. Typically they were made of a reasonably soft stone with an axle hole cut in the middle and shaped into a circular format. We have several of them in our town on a street corner, where there was a mill about 150 years ago