TDW 1290 - The Bell Rock : Stone Actually Rings

0:02 Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here

0:02 coming to you from beautiful Santa Ana,

0:04 California and I'm standing in front of

0:07 the Bowowers Museum. Now a few days ago,

0:09 I guess about a week ago or so, I

0:12 actually did a vlog on the backside of

0:14 the Bowowers Museum when it was not

0:17 actually open. It was so early in the

0:18 morning that the gates were not open

0:20 yet. And there was something I wanted to

0:22 document, but we got a little

0:24 sidetracked with some personal issues.

0:26 Today, this Tuesday, I am back. And now

0:29 that the gates have been accessible, we

0:33 are actually going to walk inside the

0:36 courtyard. And I want to show you

0:37 something historic, amazing that used to

0:40 actually be up in the mountains and has

0:42 actually been transplanted and is inside

0:45 here unbeknownsted to the general

0:48 population and those who actually pay

0:50 admission to go inside. This little

0:53 relic of

0:55 history is about to be documented on

0:59 this my second channel, daily vlog

1:01 channel. It's the Daily

1:04 Woo. And as we walk in, a very fantastic

1:08 bell is not ringing, welcoming us

1:11 inside, but these gates are open, and

1:13 that is actually a very positive thing.

1:15 And check this out. The Charles W.

1:19 Bowers Memorial Museum. And this place

1:23 actually has a lot of history. And you

1:27 can see here the hours is open from

1:30 10:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. closed on

1:32 Mondays, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving,

1:33 Christmas, and New Year's Day. So, we're

1:37 actually falling on one of those days

1:38 where it is actually open to the public.

1:41 It is, I think, five $6 to get in, but

1:45 to get in the courtyard area that we are

1:47 actually documenting right now is

1:48 absolutely free. It does not cost a

1:52 dime. So, if you're in Orange County and

1:54 near Santa Ana, cruise out here and you

1:57 can actually enjoy the peaceful

2:00 majesticness of this awesome courtyard,

2:04 including this

2:12 fountain. These flowers, are those

2:12 patunias? Actually, those are not

2:14 patunias. These actually remind me of

2:16 the flowers inside Walt Disney's tiki

2:20 room that actually sing. Look at these

2:23 orange

2:24 trees. Look at

2:32 this. Some oranges

2:32 here. Palm trees. Nothing says Southern

2:37 California like palm trees. And nothing

2:40 says Orange County, California like

2:43 orange trees. And look at this. This is

2:45 a little relic

2:48 here. Look at this guy. Got some

2:51 carvings on his face there. And is a

2:53 very thorny bush. And I have a question

2:55 for you. I was wondering as I'm walking

2:57 around on this sod grass, is this

3:01 actually like astroturf or is this

3:04 actual grass or sod? But I'll give you

3:07 guys a closer look and see if you guys

3:09 can figure out. Is this

3:20 grass? It almost doesn't look like real

3:20 grass. I've never seen grass that grows

3:21 like this. Maybe this is the kind of

3:23 grass they put on like miniature golf

3:24 courses, but it doesn't have that coarse

3:27 feeling like a miniature golf course

3:29 would have. What do you think this

3:35 is? Very interesting. Look at this

3:35 little rock over here. It almost looks

3:37 like a volcano rock. This rock has

3:41 different

3:42 indentations and different holes that

3:44 are now filled with water because it has

3:46 been raining over the last few days. The

3:48 last day or so it has not rained, but a

3:50 few days ago it was actually torrential

3:52 downpours because of El Nino out in the

3:54 ocean. But look at this rock. Very, very

3:57 peculiar. And I really like this area

4:00 over here as well. This is actually a

4:02 memorial fountain. Even though the

4:04 fountain is no longer operational, this

4:07 is actually Mrs. Bower's memorial

4:16 fountain. And you can see where the

4:16 fountain used to be right over here in

4:18 the corner. And I'm guessing water used

4:20 to actually fon out of the side of that

4:22 and down the side of these rocks. And

4:25 you can see all these carvings. So we

4:28 have talked about rocks being there. We

4:30 have talked about rocks being there, but

4:33 the subject of this vlog is a rock that

4:37 most people when they come inside the

4:39 Bowowers Museum ignore or do not realize

4:42 the significance of it. It is actually

4:45 the bell stone or the bell rock and it's

4:50 right over my shoulder.

5:00 Gung gong. That's it right there. Now,

5:00 if you were to walk past this, would you

5:02 think, "I'm going to go check out that

5:04 rock. I'm going to go see what that rock

5:06 is." Most likely, you would not. You

5:09 would actually continue to go on the

5:11 path into the museum. But fret not, my

5:14 friends. We are going to take a closer

5:16 look at the bellstone, at the bell rock.

5:21 Let's go up and take a little bit closer

5:24 of a of a look at this. The

5:28 bell stone. You can actually read this

5:31 information. This is one of the ringing

5:33 rocks of Southern California. Native

5:37 people discover that some rocks resonate

5:40 when struck due to the structure of the

5:42 minerals and the positioning of the

5:44 rock.

5:46 And I have not actually attempted to try

5:48 this, but there are actually little

5:51 carvings and

5:52 indentations in the rock. Like look, the

5:55 biggest indentation would be here, but

5:57 there's also different indentations all

6:00 throughout the rock. And the way that

6:03 the rock is actually positioned, if you

6:06 look underneath the rock, check this

6:08 out.

6:19 If you look underneath the rock, you

6:19 will notice it's actually arched. It's

6:21 actually like has like an arched back

6:24 underneath the rock itself. Can you see

6:28 underneath there? How the rock actually

6:31 has a little area that actually lets air

6:35 and a little breezeway underneath the

6:37 bottom of the rock. So, check this out.

6:47 It's a very odd, very peculiar shaped

6:47 rock. Now, I have not actually attempted

6:49 this yet. This is going to be a first

6:51 for me. I came in here a minute ago

6:53 before I started the vlog just to make

6:55 sure that the rock was still here, but I

6:57 have not actually tested the rock out.

7:00 And how are we going to test the rock

7:02 out? I have brought a smaller rock and

7:06 I'm going to try to make the rock sing.

7:10 I'm gonna make the rock ring out. We're

7:12 gonna rock and we're going to roll

7:14 together by actually taking this rock

7:17 and

7:19 tapping tapping the hole. So, let's

7:22 start off with this one.

7:42 That is crazy. It's actually making a

7:42 bell sound. Each one of these

7:44 indentation makes a different sound.

7:47 Like this is a lot deeper. That's a lot

7:50 deeper. But if you get down to

7:52 these, see how it resonates?

8:01 That's probably the loudest one. Listen

8:01 how loud that

8:04 is. That is cool. It actually sounds

8:07 like a

8:10 bell because underneath the rock, that

8:13 indentation, that circular pattern under

8:15 the rock makes a sound go through the

8:17 rock and out the bottom. So, it's very

8:21 interesting. by tapping on the regular

8:23 rock surface like here. See? Listen to

8:26 that.

8:27 Listen. It's pretty much like a bland

8:30 rock against rock sound. But when you

8:33 come over here to the

8:35 indentations, listen to that sound.

8:37 Listen to the

8:38 difference. Super

8:45 cool. And they actually transplanted

8:46 this from one of the mountains here in

8:49 Santa Ana. from the Santa Ana Mountains

8:50 in Orange County,

8:53 California. Pretty interesting. Ringing

8:55 rocks are regarded as culturally

8:57 important among the tribes of Southern

9:01 California. The curved depression or

9:04 cupola is man-made and may have been a

9:07 striking point or a mortar for the

9:09 grinding of medicinal plants. So very,

9:13 very interesting. So there you go.

9:15 Another weird wacky roadside thing that

9:17 a lot of people do not know about. I

9:19 discovered this online doing some Google

9:20 research and I said that is very

9:21 peculiar. I need to go down to Santa Ana

9:24 and check out the ringing rock, the bell

9:27 stone. What did you guys think of this

9:29 vlog? Leave some comments down below.

9:31 Have you ever seen anything like this

9:33 before? And if you have something

9:36 unusual or peculiar that is very similar

9:38 to this, where else do these exist? I'll

9:40 see you guys tomorrow. Have a great day.

9:42 Goodbye.

TDW 1290 - The Bell Rock : Stone Actually Rings

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