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The girl was very sad. Every day she cried. She did not love the man her
parents had already chosen for her. She only wanted to marry her boyfriend. The

time to get married was getting closer. Every day the girl just sat near the Lake

Toba. She was very hopeless. Her only friend was a dog. The girl wanted to end her
life. She wanted to jump to the Lake Toba. She was walking slowly. She approached

the edge. She was very confused. She did not want to die or leave her boyfriend.

While she was thinking very hard, suddenly she slipped and fell to a big hole.

The girl thought that it was time for her to die. She was surrounded by big stones.

She felt the stone were getting closer to her. The stones were squeezing her.

Then she said, "Prapat... Prapat..." It means moving closer.

Amazingly, the stones were slowly moving closer to her. She was being

squeezed! Meanwhile, the dog was barking. He was looking downward and keeping
on barking. It attracted people's attention.

They came to the dog and also looked downward. They heard a girl's voice
saying, "Prapat... Prapat." The people recognized her voice and her dog. They tried

to help her. Some of them went to the girl's house. They wanted to tell her parents/

The parents immediately went to save their daughter. More and more people
came. They all tried to save the girl. Unfortunately it was too late. The stone were

finally squeezing her. However, they were still able to hear voice saying, "Parapat...
parapat." Her parents were sad. They regretted their plan to marry her. Since then

people named the area as Parapat.

Time passed by and several years later earthquake attacked the area. Stone
were falling down to the lake and when the quake stopped, people saw a big stone

which looked like hanging. Actually the stone clung to the cliff. People said that the
stone was the girl who was trapped inside the stones. Since the stone looked like

hanging, so people named it as the hanging stone or Batu Gantung.