STORY OF THE 'SACRED' STONE

The people in the above pictures are actually punters who believe that a granite stone found in the Bukit Minyak Industrial area in Bukit Mertajam is sacred and would give them good luck. You can see the punters rubbing the stone with water hoping to get their lucky numbers with a curious crowd of people looking on.
How was the stone discovered? It seemed that workers cleaning a monsoon drain and its surroundings in that area discovered the stone below a tree about three weeks ago. When they tried to lift the stone, they found snakes below it. The workers then left the area without removing the stone. One of the stall operators there said that the right side of the stone has an image of Lord Ganesh (Elephant God) while its left has an image of Nagamah (a female Hindu goddess).
The residents of that area then cleared the surroundings, cemented the area and started to pray to the stone for luck. It was also reported that several people claimed they saw numbers appearing on the stone when they washed it with water after offering fruits and eggs. It seems that the 'sacred' stone has become an attraction because there were reports of people getting winning numbers from it.
Source of story: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/22/nation/2086286&sec=nation