"Breaking" boulder news from New Hampshire

Yesterday, a 2016 Papergreat post titled "Old postcard: 'The Mysterious Hanging Boulder' in Polar Caves" suddenly zoomed toward the top of the most-read posts.

Alas, that's because, as of yesterday, the hanging boulder is no longer hanging.

An Instagram video by Wildfernandfield first detailed the 80-ton boulder's new position, attained due to the inevitability of time and gravity. It appears that, most fortunately, no one was hurt. That Instagram video (and a subsequent Reddit thread) led a bundle of folks who wanted to see what the boulder looked like before it fell to Papergreat.

Wildfernandfield added in a comment: "We reported it, we were the first customers through the park at opening. In their morning inspection the rock was not like that."

The park is the privately owned Polar Caves Park in Rumney, New Hampshire. 

One commenter on Reddit wrote: "The rock is so obscure. Like there is no entries on Google about this rock besides this Papergreat site and other pages. I swear, most of us is going to learn about this rock only because of this video haha."

And one Papergreat commenter wrote: "Sad I won’t ever get to see it in person."

Well, I'm fairly certain you'll still be able to see it someday, after the park safely reopens (probably in the spring). It'll just be aligned much differently. That boulder isn't getting up and going anywhere. And we still have the old postcards.