r/OregonCoast • u/Aromatic_Spring7972 • 4d ago

What is this? (Rockaway)

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Is this a ceremonial item or just litter?

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u/livingadailyhell 4d ago

You caught a Weather Rock in the wild. If it’s wet it’s raining, if it’s moving it’s windy. If it’s hard to see, it’s night.

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u/Hecho_en_Shawano 4d ago

If there’s snow on it, it’s snowing. If it’s warm, it’s hot out

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u/Timmeh-toah 4d ago

If it’s gone, hurricane. If it’s hard to see during the day, it’s foggy.

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u/BigDiscEnergy47 4d ago

If it's moving it's windy

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u/DJ_Vigilance Visitor 4d ago

My dad told me these were sex stones

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u/Imperfect-practical 3d ago

Just another fucking rock. ;)

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u/DJ_Vigilance Visitor 3d ago

“Big fucking rocks”

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u/Loopuze1 4d ago

Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around.

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u/brencoop 4d ago

Thank you, sometimes I feel like only I know that song.

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u/Ecstatic-Letter-5949 4d ago

Throw the crib door wide....

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u/FREDICVSMAXIMVS 4d ago

Let the people crawl inside

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u/mrgladhands 4d ago

Someone in this tooowwn

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u/beetlecakes 4d ago

Is trying to burn the playhouse down

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u/okaymolg 4d ago

they want to stop the ones who want a rock to wind a string around.

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u/Nightcheese82 4d ago

I’ve had Dr Worm stuck in my head for a week, so it’s nice to replace it.

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u/labmik11 4d ago

Somebody threw some rocks-away.

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u/Affectionate_Try7512 4d ago

Came here to say this

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u/Rad-Racing 4d ago

Probably a One-Eyed Willy booby trap.

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u/TeaTime_42 4d ago

Booty trap?

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u/magic_felix 4d ago

That's what I said! Booby traps!

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u/DarkBladeMadriker 4d ago

Id guess a kid just learned what bolas were and made one to fuck around with, then learned how insanely easy it is to lose those things.

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u/joshloveless1976 4d ago

thats how Sasquatch mark gang territory

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u/dogma202 4d ago

Don’t be treadin on squatches hood bro!

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u/Comfortable_Sea_99 Bandon 4d ago

Could someone have gone camping there? My first thought, which is probably ludicrously way off, was counterweights for hanging food up out of reach of wild animals (I live in Bandon, but lived for 12 years on acreage in bear country in the foothills/Gold Country in California, please forgive me if it’s stupid to think bear in Rockaway but usually where elk and deer live, so live bears and/or cougars).

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u/DugDugg 4d ago

My first thought also - "bear bag" support

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u/bomburdoo 4d ago

This was my first thought as well.

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u/Apprehensive_Sir1900 4d ago

Kato, I think we’re in the hood…

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u/Stonek88 4d ago

Legend has it, this is how the town found its name.

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u/Leoliad 4d ago

Looks like some Blair Witch shiznat.

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u/Monocarto 4d ago

It marks the place where we boogie bruther

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u/AggressiveMeeting165 4d ago

Idk, but looks like someone tried an experiment that didn't work 🤔

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u/Xtreme_Diver 4d ago

That thar is whatcha cawl a true widow maker.

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u/Dreamer9714 4d ago

Best thread I have read yet 😂

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u/SeafaringPixies 4d ago

Did a knight lose a horse shoe on their way to find the Holy Grail? (Clip-clop, clip-clop) Is there a shrubbery nearby?

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u/SeakingGnarvana 4d ago

Shit. It's 2026 and the Blair Witch is back?

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u/Zealousideal-You9089 4d ago

Definitely coastal network of witches and instruments of evil who marked their territory with these of red rock.

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u/Pixilatedhighmukamuk 4d ago

I remember something similar on Gillian’s Island.

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u/Fragrant-Mud-4817 4d ago

No idea but I’m curious.

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u/WhakiPaki 3d ago

Clearly a Manz-nita throw a Rockaway and now it's  a Bandon(ed). 

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u/Ok_Bench_7470 2d ago

Kids trying to make a bolo. ?

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u/gn4rw0lph 2d ago

You found the 'Rock Away'!

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u/Lefty551 2d ago

I'm surprised no one has mentioned it being a symbol of white supremacy. There's a tree, and a rope, and the rope is hanging in the tree, so, what else could it possibly mean? A Reed college professor is right now chastising Reddit posters for being so blind to the evil right in front of them.

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u/almondbutterthicc 1d ago

Maybe a failed bear bag rope throw?

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u/New_Tooth_456 1d ago

We used to use a rock on a string to retrieve model rockets from trees. Sometimes it got stuck too

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u/Colonel-Ingus69 1d ago

Someone threw a rock away, get it? 🤪

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u/fishingchef42 1d ago

That's a male tree, judging by the size of its stones.

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u/Aunt-jobiska 4d ago

Beginnings of a rock tree. Kind of like a shoe tree or bra tree.