Fake Runestone and Touristattraction around a Hoax.
ONE WOMAN’S RELENTLESS BELIEF TURNED what was just an odd stone into the central monument of a state park. The Heavener Runestone is a ten-foot by twelve-foot high sandstone slab carved with symbols that are controversially attributed to the Vikings. For nearly a century, locals referred to it as the “Indian Rock” and assumed that the inscription was made by the Choctaw.