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Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in northern Ontario. Now, revealing the stone’s existence, they’re asking the public for help.

By Alan Yuhas

Two trees fell in the forest. Whether or not anyone heard, the fall eventually revealed runes below.

A stone carved with 255 runes had lain beneath the trees, long hidden by soil, moss and roots in a densely forested corner of Canadian wilderness. On the same stone, someone had carved an image of a boat with passengers.