In Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a giant, rusty-looking die washed up on the lake shore this week.
One side of the die has some pipes coming out of it, and the dots on each side are surprisingly white. It’s about six feet by six feet, and not long after it appeared, city workers came through to remove it.
Locals speculated about the origins of the mysterious die: it seemed clear that someone had added the white decals to an otherwise unremarkable box.
The Coeur d’Alene Press heard one possible origin story:
This wasn't the first time Sam Gridley, a man who splits his time between Hawaii and Coeur d'Alene, has seen the sizable object.
Gridley says it's an old storage tank that washed up near his Driftwood Bay property in 2008 and stuck around.
One year, he said, someone put circles on the tank to give it the appearance of a die. He believes the recent flooding was enough to wash it back into the lake.
Because of rainfall and snowmelt in the area, Lake Coeur d’Alene is at unusually high levels for this time of year; there’s currently a flood warning in the area. There’s no telling what else might turn up—possibly another die to make a pair?