According to an oft-repeated story, if you take a piece of petrified wood from the national park you will be cursed. In the visitor center you can find letters written by people who have sent back pieces of rock that they took so that their cursed life will now be better. Apparently they get back a piece in the mail every other day. Things like “lost a job”, “death in the family”, and "You're right, it's a curse to take wood from the forest. My girlfriend of three years finished with me on the drive home. So here's your damn wood back." Some pieces are returned after years of “bad luck”.
The solution is to buy a piece at one of the many shops outside the park. The pieces are from land outside the park. The biggest shop is amazing and perhaps sad on how much of the petrified wood can be found in just this one shop. The things you can buy are so cool and varied. Tables that cost $12,000 or fossils that cost only $1. So now I have a few very small pieces without any curse!
BTW, here’s “Wild Bill”. It’s a 2-600 million year old alligator that they had in the shop. Not sure why there’s such a large time range. But cool!
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