MUKAH: Believe it or not, wood can become coal and eventually turn into a stone in its original shape and size.
A lucky contractor was not able to witness the natural transformation process but had the opportunity to see the product of nature’s power unfolded before him.
Lu Sin Aik, 56, has been keeping the stones since 2017, the year he found them.
The three stones were a mixture of black and slightly silver in colour, and varied in size and shape.
One looked like the back-side of a frog about 60cm wide, another took the shape of a timber log about 1.1m high, while the smaller one resembled a broken piece of timber log about 30cm high.
Lu, a local resident, claimed that by looking at the nature and appearance of the stones, they originated from wood and then became coal, and eventually transformed into stones.
He revealed that he found them while extracting coal deposits near a longhouse along Jalan Mukah-Selangau sometime in 2017.
“These stones could be millions of years old,” he claimed.
New Sarawak Tribune asked him about his ‘mysterious’ collection during the Chinese New Year visit to his open house here on Saturday.
The coal extraction contractor also claimed that the frog-shaped stone was very heavy and it took 10 men to pull it to his car porch.
