Mushroom Jasper, mushroom rhyolite, mushroom picture rock, and mushroom picture jasper are all interchangeable names for a wonderful silica rich rhyolite from Arizona.

This stone features orbicular patterns and other wild designs and generally shows earth tones with some reds mixed in. I like this stone because it is different (and I like different). The patterns create wild pictures that stretch the imagination.  Let me tell you about where my imagination went recently with a mushroom jasper stone.

The Michigan dogman legend began as an April fools joke on radio station WTCM, in Traverse City, back in 1987. It has since been recorded in books such as the Year of the Dogman and The Haunting of Sigma by Frank Holes, Jr. These stories are  based on sightings of creatures in the woods very close to us!

You can read about the dogman legend at Michigan-dogman.com. The drawing of the dogman on this website resembles the picture in the mushroom rhyolite I just cut. I can also see a skull off to the top left of the dogman’s face.  Terrifying!

I think this is an exceptional Halloween pendant, so I’m posting it on the website for sale. I’ll bet some Dogman fan will need this, but I wanted all the blog fans to see it.  Happy Halloween!