A man wanted to remove a stone near his house, but dug up a 10-ton block from the Ice Age (3 photos + 1 video)
Brendan Dudas, a 31-year-old teacher from Indianapolis, decided to deal with a rock that was preventing him from mowing the grass near his house during the holidays. But the simple idea turned into a real adventure that captured the attention of social networks. 
The man's video went viral - it has gained more than 9 million views. According to Brendan, he constantly looked at this boulder in the yard and finally, having nothing better to do during the summer holidays, decided to dig it up.
But the first steps made it clear that his "rock" was not the case at all. Dudas dug, throwing away the earth in buckets, but the stone never ended. He began documenting the process on TikTok, and commentators advised asking crane operators for help.
Eventually, they connected the crane, and only then did it become clear that this was not just a stone, but a huge boulder weighing more than 10.3 tons. According to Dudas, it could be from 10 to 15 thousand years old - approximately since the end of the last ice age.
"Digging up that boulder started a chain reaction that eventually led to a complete makeover of my yard. I wanted to make the yard the pride of the street, and I did it, one step at a time," Brendan told People.
When the work was completed, the man decided not to remove the boulder, but to make it the centerpiece of his landscape design. He surrounded the boulder with smaller stones, added mulch, soil, native plants, and now plans to install lighting so that the "night boulder" will please the entire neighborhood.
His example inspired his neighbors: people began to come out more often to clean up the area around their houses. Now Dudas does not plan to dig up new "surprises", but enjoys what he has - the dug up boulder has become not only part of the landscape, but also a symbol of how an unexpected find can change not only your own yard, but also an entire block.
