Kicker - A striking discovery

MARY REICHARD, HOST: A man in Michigan made a striking discovery under his house when he went to demolish his back stairs.

David Olsen said he found a hard spherical object buried in the sand behind cinder blocks. It looked almost exactly like a bowling ball, but it didn’t have finger holes.

Then he found another. And another. And then about 160 more.

Olsen told WZZM-TV:

OLSEN: It became mind blowing. It kind of felt like a paleontologist where you see it where they’ve got the little brush and their dusting the bones off.

Well, the objects looked a lot like bowling balls because that’s exactly what they were. Turns out, Brunswick Bowling Products used to have a plant near his town. Olsen learned its employees used to take scrapped bowling balls to use as an alternative to gravel or concrete blocks.

Olsen’s happy he found bowling balls instead of blocks. Easier to roll out of the way!

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