The Devil Tower still exists today in the United States covered with many myths, legends and mysteries.
The Devil’s Tower is actually a monolithic stone structure, also known as ancient The volcano is located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County in northeastern Wyoming on the American Belle Fourche River. The tower has a peak 1558m above sea level and is located 386m higher than the surrounding terrain.
This mysterious natural wonder was considered a Monument by the late US President Theodore Roosevelt. America’s first nation on September 24, 1906.
The spectacular landscape surrounding Devil’s Tower consists mainly of sedimentary rock. The oldest rocks that can be seen in the National Monument were in shallow marginal areas during the mid or late Triassic period, about 225 to 195 million years ago.
The first time humans We learned about Devil’s Tower in 1893. It was two guests William Rogers and Willard Ripley who discovered this natural wonder.
They found the crack vertical and narrow from the ground to the top of the mountain. At that time, the two used pieces of wooden planks to make stairs to go up. Until 1927 wooden stairs were still in use. The remaining vestiges are still preserved today.
It is a thrilling sightseeing spot because many legendary and mysterious stories surround the Devil’s Tower.
Old stories are told. In the legend of the indigenous American tribes Kiowa and Sioux Lakhota, young girls went out to play and encountered a group of giant bears. They chased the girls very closely. To escape danger, the young girls climbed onto a rock and knelt down to pray to God to save them.
When the Holy Spirit heard the prayer, he Make the rock fly up from the ground so the bears can’t chase it. Because the rock was huge and too steep, the bears could only leave their claws on both sides of the rock without doing anything. When the girls went to heaven they turned into the Pleiades constellation. That is one of the legends that describes the formation of today’s mysterious Devil’s Tower.
Back in modern times, the Devil’s Tower was used by filmmakers as a setting in the movie. movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” in 1977.
Another mystery surrounding this tower is told to each other by many tourists and locals. They saw a magical light appear in the sky above the tower. Some people even said they saw light appear at the top of this tower. However, this has not yet been confirmed.
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