I've NEVER FOUND Treasure Like THESE Before! "Lightning Stone" Hunting on Lake Michigan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- FINALLY! This is something I've been wanting to do ever since I first saw these beautiful stones online. I have been to Michigan quite a bit over the last few years, but was just recently made aware of "Lightning Stones". I had no choice but to take a drive and go hunt for these beautiful and unique stones for myself! I think I had a great day!
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Wow! I just wanna take all the rocks!!💜💜💜
So pretty!
HEY Kyle, that one with the circle looks like a tree on the back side.
I thought the same thing!
First image I saw was the tree
I see the same thing too.
Me to, was surprised to see others saw it to. Great minds 😉
I see the tree! Awesome!
I've just spent like five minutes rubbing at my screen, only to realize that the smudge I was seeing in the middle was on YOUR camera, not my screen... lol
Anyway, very cool rocks! Love them!
OMG I'm sorry 😂😂😂
Great adventure! Your on my home turf! Lake Michigan is the most dangerous lake in the country. Some 300,000 people have died in it, along with A Lot sunken ships. The riptide is awful. Creepy facts 😬🫣. However, it’s 300mi in both directions, make it the most awesome lake in the country also. It’s no wonder why we find the most fabulous rocks here. Septarians, Amethyst, Unakite, Agate, Jasper, loads of Fossils, Jade, and the list goes on and on.
Growing up on Lake Michigan has been a true blessing. Lots of my rockhound friends, started their passion from hounding these shores of the lake. I’m so glad you got to experience the beautiful and amazing treasure we have here. Come back and visit again soon! Let us know when and where so we can come out and join you in some shenanigans 😆😆
Thanks so much for sharing your adventures!
Love your channel ❤️❤️
Stay Crystal,
Mari
Wow wow wow. I found some very similar rocks to these lightning stones. Same except mine are literally smooth as if tumbled. I've searched and searched for their names. I used rock identifier and it says quartz and jasper high silica. I hardly ever noticed the calcite lines because the smoothness of them steal the show. Ur so cute and fun to watch. I admire ur ethic in reaching out of ur box a bit trying new stuff. Thanks for sharing. I'll watch as long as u keep em comin!!! Emily
I love that beach! One of my favorite day trip spots! ♡ the pink and green are unikite.
I love watching your videos. I live in the middle of the mitten and wish I lived closer to one of the big lakes. My husband laughs at me because we can't go anywhere without me stopping to look at the rocks. I now have my oldest daughter doing it too. I have learned so much watching you. Thank you.
sounds fun! my mom and i love to do this kind of stuff. its exciting and fulfilling. this is the greatest state to find rocks for real!
Like a kid in a candy store. I love pretty rocks. I love your red bucket
Hey wild man, I smile all through your videos, thanks !! I like the little black stone at the top right corner, with the colour dome.
Thank you! I like to paint rocks but it’s hard to find smooth flat surface’s. Now I know what beach to head to😁💚🍀
Really cool rocks that this Florida gal hasn’t seen. Thanks for sharing!
Your enthusiasm is infectious! I find lightning stones along the shores of Lake Shelbyville in central Illinois, they're so cool.
You're in my homestate! Great finds! Always enjoy your videos. Nothing like the Great Lakes!
The sound was fine. Good video. I loved the small colorful oval rock you kept in the beginning. Good hunt!
That's down by me! Pilgrim Haven and deer lick creek are the best spots in Michigan to find rocks
Love these, used to find 'em up near Monticello, Indiana.... great finds! Cheers!
Michigan Lightning Stones!! I have buckets full from down by South Haven. One truly fantastic lake creation!! 🤟
ooooooh I LOVE septarians! They tend to polish really well (the ones from the desert of CA do anyway). I hope to see a cutting video soon!
Super cool and magical place!!
Hello Kyle, I think the lightning stones are too soft to tumble
You may want to hand polish them like Petoskey stones
Carl Zatsick
Farmington Michigan
I am always on board for a new Wild Kyle video!
Lake Michigan may as well be called an inland sea. Most people might not realize how much wave action there is, it can literally be surfed 🏄 at times. Michigan was my adopted home state for many years though I lived about as far from any shoreline as you can get in a state bordered with more than 3K miles of lake
I grew up on the lake and you are not wrong. The rip current is so strong (my mom use to call it the under tow) it makes Lk Michigan the most dangerous inland lake in the world. When I was a kid we use to go pier jumping on the North Beach just north of Pilgrim Haven. I’m lucky to be alive!
This is one of my favorite places to be. Glad you got to come enjoy it too. Also sometimes if you’re really looking you find agatey things, plus fossils. I found a little fluorescent sodalite there too.
Hi Kyle! I hope you and your mother are doing well. The stones you show at 2:20 and 2:52, if the color is green and a pinkish-red, (kind of hard to tell on my monitor) it's unakite and looks very nice polished. If you are near Rob (Michigan Rocks), he knows unakite quite well. Unakite is made of quartz, epidote, and feldspar. My favorite lightening stone you found was the upper left one that you first said was your favorite. Thanks. Take care!
Nice video. Like that you zeroed in on one type of rock. Like seeing them all at the end. Thanks. Suzy AZ USA
Lot of awesome stones.
Thanks for sharing another adventure!!
You left some pretty amazing red, yelliw and green jasper on that beach. But, I have to say the septarian you picked up was very cool. Don't you just love learning about new stones?? I did not hear you say where you were. Keep up the excitement!! Some day I hope to find an arrowhead and a sharks tooth.
Yes the big lake def has some great and plentiful jasper.
If you’re still up there you HAVE to go to Pier Cove. The lightning stones are awesome, but there’s incredible tumblers!!!
Thank you so much for this Video...
i know these Stones, found one years ago at the Baltic Sea :)
Din´t take much notice of them, until now :D
Next Holiday i will look for them again surely...
It's great to have you back in Michigan. It was fun to go on this adventure with you, even though I couldn't go down the steep steps or on the rocky beach. It was just great to spend time with you and this is a great video and you found some cool looking lightning stones. I noticed the tree on the back of the one stone also. Love you ❤️❤️
I like the 9th one you picked up very cool they're all pretty cool
Awesome video!! I live less then an hour from pilgrim haven!! It’s one of my favorite beaches. 😁
Deer lick park just down the road from there is a neat little treasure too. Have found some really cool stone and old hysterical bricks. Have a brick piece with the date 1854 I found there!
They are all really great. And just watching the waves roll back and forth over all the rocks is amazing. There are just so many colors it's overwhelming, nothing boring at all. Don't think I'd be able to bring enough buckets to collect everything I'd want to take back with me
Hey Kyle. Hope you're feeling better. I believe the green/red stones are unakite. Great video.
Just found your channel. My parents are really into collecting rocks from all their travels. Now that I'm getting older I'm starting to really appreciate their beauty and uniqueness. Great video!
❤ from Baton Rouge
I'm close to Slidell so Hello!
Are there any cool places to go rock hounding in our area? Or West, southern Mississippi?
Thank You.
I love your enthusiasm! Can’t wait to see them polished
Hello Kyle I enjoyed your video I hope your mom is doing well enjoy your visit take care glad you finally got over the covid 🌞👍👍👍👍🗝️
I love Lake Michigan. It gets pretty strong like the ocean. I live in Illinois and family vacations were going to Michigan. Always included rock hounding along the western shores. We took home so many bucketfuls of beautiful rocks. That state has my heart.
My favorite was your SMILE...glad your feeling better & you thought of your Mom bringing her a rock back. You're a awesome human ❤️❤️❤️
ive never heard the name 'lightening stones' but ive always loved those rocks.. great hunting kyle! 💛
Hey Blue eyes, I'm an old Urban Archiologist. I found cool stuff I'd like you to inherit. Lol ! 🤜🤛🤟
Yay!!! Michigan!! I love it here! Enjoy your time here. Dude love the excitement in your voice!!!
Glad you feel better. Big hugs to mom and always in my prayers.
Rock @ 5:17. Ooooooooooo so unique! Hope you kept that one!
I really liked the one that looked like a blindfolded
dental hygienist trying to make a circle on an Etch-a-sketch.
Hahahahaha 😂😂😂
wish i knew you were gonna be there :) i know the beach you're on!
These are AMAZING!!
I've never seen those stones before. I've heard about them but until now I haven't seen them . Oddly enough though , now that I do see them , I have seen several different types of extremely similar stones . That was a great hunt Kyle and I hope your mom liked the one you brought her . Great content Kyle and I hope to see you soon my friend . Cheers
Hunting my old picking grounds. I have taken at least 100 of those things you call lightening stones from that area. They're really concretions. Next time go to Grant Park Beach. Not as abundant there, but you'll find a better variety of stones there.
The one you said had a unique shape. The formation resembled Kokopelli, native spirit. I really liked it. Cool finds.
Fantastic haul. Enjoying watching you enjoying the hunt. Keep them coming.
Thanks Nancy! Many more Michigan videos to come :)
Wow you got a bunch of really cool rocks! Those lightning stone are pretty cool! Your microphone is really good. Even as windy as it was, your mic picked up your voice and not the wind. So its an awesome mic. You are like a kid in a candy store! I absolutely love your enthusiasm. Unikite is green serpentine and feldspar. I think you can put mineral oil on some of those , and it will look wet without the damaging grinding down on it, to polish it. Some you can polish. You can cut into the ones that look like the calcite goes all the way through the rock, and then polish up the flat face on it, and it will look amazing! You are looking healthy now and happy, which is amazing. I hope your mom is doing good? I am keeping up the prayers for her. I donated to the go fund me. Im sorry i cant do more. But you are going to be a litt,e pickier, when looking for rocks on the lake! or just get a bigger bucket! You look great! Hope they turn out awesome for you, when you cut them! Thanks for sharing!
Love going to Michigan as a kid loved rock hunting there. Keep hunting
Cool stuff man ⚡ ⚡⚡👍✌
They are very cool, I love the one you said was your favorite, the first one. They're all very neat! I'd need a dump truck to bring home all the rocks I love up there! I hope you're feeling better!💖
Awesome awesome awesome finds!!!
I like ‘em all Lol
Plans to be there in about ten days to celebrate my birthday picking up stones!
Thanks for sharing!!! :-)
Ohhhh awesome! Good luck and happy early birthday to ya!
Septarians are sooooo rad! Nice Finds!
I am OBSESSED 😂
Loved this video hope your mom is doing okay. All your videos are awesome
Beautiful stones 👍
Welcome back to Michigan. Glad to see you feeling better and out collecting. Happy hunting.😊 WOW! Nice grouping of stones! Great job! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Debi! I am very happy to be back out too. It feels great!
Really cool finds! They are awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Wow! @24:34 2ND most favorite, reminds me of a KATCHINA DANCER !
SUCH an amazing haul, it's 1:55a.m. and I want to head there NOW!
Thanks for a great vid before heading off to bed. Soon, I hope to be lucky enough to find a few of these. Your AMAZING KYLE!
Beautiful shore. Wonderful finds. Worried the sanding will remove the calcite. Have you tried it before? Thank you for uploading this great video.
Red Jasper
Another great video. Love the rocks ❤️
These waves are nothing compared to what Lake Superior can have. Glad you found some good ones! Don't cut any good ones open, they usually don't look that great. The brown doesn't take a good polish, but talk to Rob, I know he has been to that beach collecting. The cool fossil is my favorite. The first fossil.
Rocks, rocks, rocks never get enough of them. Have Michigan Rocks cut some in half for you and tumble a few. You should keep the rocks you find that you like regardless if it's the type your looking for now or not.
this was a lot of fun! some of them look like rubber-banded tshirts like when you tie-dye. your fave is mine too. i really love that unusual stone in the upper right corner of the towel above the gifted fossil. thanks again bud!
Hi Kyle, good to see you in Michigan! I have your mom in prayer. The green in the unakite is epidote.
You enjoyed yourself for sure. My favourite was the one on the top left hand corner of the towel.
Wild stuff Kyle those rocks are amazing!
I have a box of these collected the past couple of years. Only found on 3 or 4 beaches along that part of the lake!
WOW WOW WOW Kyle I love watching all your shows ,and what fun and a great interest ,Great to see you having an adventure every time .Wish I was there .
How’s your mom doing? It’s kind of you to bring her her favorite stone. Your favorite find looks like a steak 🥩. I didn’t hear the wind just the waves which is very relaxing. There is/was instability in the weather further west of you that was probably the wave maker. You did a great job. Love this video. You had a good day that makes a longer video. 🙏✌🏻❤️🙂🙏
Wow Kyle you’re really having a good time picking up those lightning stones that’s awesome and I see you’re back up in Michigan again nice place to visit never been there myself but I’ve heard it’s been nice several of you have been there you and Chris been up there and I believe Leo has been in Michigan all looking for rocks it’s awesome
Very cool.
Thank you for sharing.
I learned something new today because of You.
Lightening stones!
Love that place ❤
I'm down here on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, so I have a zero chance of finding one.
I really enjoyed this hunt of yours!
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Pilgrim Haven! One of my favorite rockhounding spots ever. My dog loves swimming in the creek!
That’s a fairly new beech in South Haven isn’t it? I use to love the North and South Beech there. I lived in Saugatuck and loved going to South Haven. It’s a great little town and Clementines is the best!
Really fun seeing all the cool stones! I wanted you to pick up one of the pink ones, what is that?
You are a rock hounds dream, I can't hunt anymore but I can watch you! Please be careful and stay safe 👒❤❤
I was thinking the same thing. I can't spend the time beachcombing anymore, but am a life long rock lover. Really appreciate your channel and you're easy on the eyes, too.
Kyle has inspired me to do the same. I use to be such a beech bum when I was younger but the bikini doesn’t fit like it use to!😂 This gives me inspiration to get back out there when spring comes. And I promise, no bikinis! 😂
Excelente video
Alway fun watching your videos. I love how excited you get when you find a wonderful treasure. God Bless.❤🙏
I think we would get along great lol. I am such a nerd for ground scores and really no matter what or where. Anything unique that catches your eye. It is the simple beauty of your eye seeing something that your mind finds pleasurable. What a special world we live in.
What part of Lake Michigan can you find those on ? They’re really cool. Ty for sharing. I hope you’re feeling much better since your Covid. It sucks I know ! I hope your mother is doing good with her cancer therapy etc. Hugss
im surprised these are new to you, lol! i found one on lake ebay a while back lol!
Lake eBay hahahaha!
Hey man, more often than not the calcite is more visible on the inside! You should definitely try slicing some up to see what they're hiding. Keep up the good work my dude 👊
Aren’t they great! Found some in New Jersey over the years. Good description. You look healthy!! The second colored rock is another metamorphic rock formed as different kinds of lava, sandstone, other metamorphic systems were reblended/heated/cooled under great pressure for millions of years. These “cobbles” have been rolled and deposited by glaciers and floods and retreating shores of lakes and creeks and oceans. Yes, millions of years. Loved your collecting!!
Thanks Lillian! I feel healthy too after that little bout with covid.I don't have any obvious long-covid symptoms so that's good!
I like the potato rocks unpolished. Great video!
Your excitement is infectious, especially as you get further and further into the video!
Dragon's eggs!! Can't wait!! Septarians are my fave.
Hi Kyle. I happen to live in Michigan and vacation on lake Huron. In Rogers City they have a calcite mine and across the road from the mine they have piled all the rock from the mine. It's my favorite place to visit. I too get lost in the rock hunt.
I'm watching you get excited about rocks I see all the time. It made me realize how we take things for granted. Look forward to seeing you cut into to those rocks. I'm thinking about trying that
Fossil soup looks cool!
I enjoy that you hunt for multiple treasures- fossils, bottles, stone relics, rocks and minerals…
Keep hunting✊
Can't wait to see what they all look like polished.
Excellent. At last an articulate video presenter.
I Love rocks/pebbles/stones, really liked the first one you picked up and the one with fossils in it.
II’m pretty sure the colored stones you found is Jasper. I don’t remember what that type is called but it could be forest jasper? It’s been a few years since I was finding stones and making jewelry. I would LOVE to buy some of the red/green stones.
5:16 Looks like calligraphy jasper!!!
I also saw an unakite jasper earlier in the video.
I might have to hit the great lakes and do a yooperlite / jasper hunt.
Also do you have something against chalcedony? I saw quite a few. Dunno if it just wasn't what you were after. But might try and train your peepers to see them.
Bloodstone at 17:28
I was very very focused on the lightning stones 😂
love your enthusiasm!
Thank you 😊😊😊
I love your child in a candy shop antics. There's another one! And another one! I get so excited too!
Awesome finds !! 👍
I’m going to Michigan soon and I’m gonna look for those!!! Thank you Kyle, prayers for your Mother and your family, God Bless!!
Pilgrim Haven (just south of South Haven) is a great rock hounding beach. Rocky Gap and Roadside, just south, are other great rock beaches! Just north is a beautiful little artist town called Saugatuck. Although I’m from Benton Harbor I lived in Saugatuck for years.
Hi Kyle great to see you back and great video. I could spend days on those lakes looking for rocks. Last time I was there at Whitefish Pointe I got about 30 pounds of them. Keep on truckin ✌ ❤. What lake were you at?
I love to hear your excitement! Too many rocks, too little places to put them for me!