- Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert directly adjacent to Landers, California, that covers 5,800 square feet of ground and is seven stories high
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Giant Rock facts
- Giant Rock is purported to be the largest free standing boulder in the world
- Native Americans of the Joshua Tree, California, area consider it to be sacred
- A single large room, which was subsequently filled in, was dug beneath the rock and resided in by a prospector named Frank Critzer during the 1930s and early 1940s
- Critzer perished in a self-detonated dynamite explosion in this room on July 24, 1942, while being investigated by local police
- In the 1950s it was a gathering point for UFO believers
- It is located on land which was at that time leased by George Van Tassel, a friend of Critzer's, a purported flying-saucer contactee and organizer of UFO conventions
- Van Tassel also built the nearby Integratron and a small airport in the vicinity, which he operated from 1947 to 1975
- Shortly after the turn of the 21st century, Giant Rock fractured in two, revealing an interior of white granite
- The exterior surface of the rock is partially covered in graffiti
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