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Some visitors mailed petrified wood back to Arizona’s Petrified Forest with letters describing bad luck. According to Messy Nessy’s, a museum archive holds returned rocks and remorseful letters dating back to 1938. Some writers believed their stolen souvenirs were cursed after experiencing misfortune and wanted to be rid of them. A keepsake they had chosen to take home had become something they no longer wanted to keep.
The article says photographer Ryan Thompson encountered the archive during a 2011 visit to the park. He documented the letters alongside the returned rocks online, and the material later became the book Bad Luck, Hot Rocks. The letters do not establish that the rocks caused anyone’s troubles, but they show how strongly some visitors connected the two. How many letters does the museum’s archive actually hold?
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