We know that the Romans played a bowling game about 2,000 years ago, that Germans in 400 A.D. miniature pins and balls were discovered in an Egyptian child's ancient grave. THE EARLIEST FORM of bowling - using a ball to knock down objects - dates to at least 5200 B.C. But they looked practically new.Īs he stood there, Olson could finally contemplate the question people all over the world were wondering: Where the hell did all these bowling balls come from? About 10 were grey and misshapen Olson and Zeke had started calling them alien eggs. Some had dents and dings, some were dark black, others a light blue. This was the first time he'd paused to count them. Olson wandered over to the edge of the deck and stood above his yard, looking out at the mound of bowling balls he'd just unearthed. As afternoon turned into evening, long after Zeke tapped out, Olson reached the last step. He didn't know his five Facebook posts had gone viral, and that tens of thousands of people were following his quest. Olson kept going even though the summer sun was melting him. It was grueling, mysterious and exhilarating. David would unearth a ball from the sand, plop it on the ground behind him, and Zeke would chuck it off the back deck. When his 5-year-old son, Zeke, got home from preschool, he joined in. He'd post an update to the Facebook group, find 10 more balls, get a drink of water, find 10 more balls, eat something, find 10 more balls. He kept going.įor the rest of the afternoon, Olson shoveled out sand and bowling balls. David continued his work on the steps, but 30 seconds later he stood up in surprise again. She was equally perplexed, but quickly went back inside to her job designing software. So he posted pictures of the bowling balls to the Facebook group, then went and told his wife, Megan. Now he was in the middle of a mystery at his own house. He loved how so many of the mysteries did not get solved, that you had to use your imagination to plot out what must have happened. One was called "Stuff people find in walls," and the other was "Stuff people find in the woods." The woods group had some creepy finds, but he loved reading about old watches and fake skeletons that people found during home renovations. He'd recently joined two large Facebook groups, about people discovering strange objects. As he peered into the dark area in the middle of the hole he just made, he couldn't believe what he saw: three bowling balls, half-covered by the sand. He took a step back, surprised to see that the ground underneath the steps was sand, not dirt. Olson yanked the first cinder block up with his hands. There were four cement steps, angled toward the left, and he planned to tear them out in one day. So in early July, Olson used an off day from his job as a machinist in Norton Shores, Michigan, to grab a sledgehammer and start the demo job himself. The steps were crumbling and had to go, anyway. He'd stare out the sliding glass door at the back of David Olson's house all day, tortured by a steady stream of critters carrying nuts through cracks in the cement steps that led to the back porch. THE CHIPMUNKS WERE making Peter the Cat crawl out of his fur. The remarkable story of a man who found 162 bowling balls under his house You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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