Photo credit: M. Ciavardini.
The Balanced Rock Hudson Valley Mystery
North Salem, N.Y. is a small town in Westchester County with a very big mystery: a boulder formally named the Balanced Rock rests on three significantly smaller stones. It’s a geographic anomaly that has never, in the minds of some, been sufficiently explained. This large chunk of granite apparently does not match other rocks found in the area.
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What Is the Mystery of the Balanced Rock?
I suppose the boulder balancing on a handful of rocks by the side of Titicus Road in North Salem, N.Y., could have been placed here naturally by rushing water or a melting glacier, but I prefer the more mysterious suggestion that the boulder was placed here, without benefit of electricity or machinery, as some sort of altar or other religious artifact by humans a long, long time ago.
Some think that the smaller rock upon which the balanced rock rests could not reasonably hold the boulder but for some unusual energy helping to keep it up. Those more in tune with vibrations and the other world sometimes visit, sometimes during equinoxes and solstices or at moments when the veil between the current reality and alternatives ones is particularly thin.
What Is the Big Deal about North Salem’s Balancing Rock?
It’s that other Salem, the one in Massachusetts, that tends to be known more for other-worldly events, but I like to think that North Salem’s balanced rock is a beacon of sorts, a runway light full of energy leading celestial beings to their appropriate landing places, like the Nazca lines in Peru or at the pyramids in Egypt. The Balanced Rock emanates its own bit of magic right here in an unlikely pocket of northern Westchester county more known for horse farms and its rural character.
The Balanced Rock, located near the road so it is difficult to miss, has been entrancing generations of visitors. North Salem’s mysterious boulder appeared on old postcards dating from the turn of the last century.
Balanced Rock, 667 Titicus Road (near Keeler Lane), North Salem, NY 10560
—Lori Tripoli
Lori Tripoli is the editor and publisher of Bashful Adventurer. Based in the New York City vicinity, she writes about travel for a variety of publications.
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The balanced rock and the 4 stones supporting it all share the TREE LINE CURVE in common. Prof. Claus Mattheck describes this curve in the Mathematics of Trees you tube. This curve forms in every living and non-living thing exposed to tension, compression , and rotational forces. These stones were rolled around by a glacier and by outwash water, forming these curves. The large erratic landed on top of these 4 stones and held them in place, while hundreds of adjacent stones were washed away, creating the illusion of the erratic being placed upon the 4 stones. The tree line curve is facing the same direction in all 5 stones, indicating the direction of outwash.
If it’s from the last ice age those trees weren’t there to explain that tree curve.