Erik Rintamaki was looking
for rocks on a Michigan beach last summer when he came up with what he calls a
"mind blowing" discovery. Hidden among the thousands of pebbles
covering the Lake Superior beach, Erik Rintamaki saw a glowing rock.
Erik Rintamaki told
CBS News he regularly goes rock hunting. But on this exact June night, he discovered
a rock unlike any other — a florescent orb that he later named
"Yooperlite." Like lava glowing through cracks in the earth surface,
a glowing light oozed out of the lines in the small rock.
Erik knew this
couldn't be the only Yooperlite out there, but he couldn't find any info about
glowing rocks online. He knows many people in the gem and mineral field, but every
person he asked had no clue what these glowing mysterious rocks were.