Clendenin, W.Va. (AP) -- There's egg on the face of anyone who thought a West Virginia mystery was anything more than a practical yolk.

Days after hunter Sherman Farley found a giant egg while hunting near Clendenin, another man has admitted planting it in the woods.

Herbert Herold says he got the ostrich egg from Benedict Haid Farm, about 3 miles from where Farley found it. Herold left it in the woods, hoping his brother bill, who was hunting nearby, would find it.

But Farley found it first, and the 4.5-pound egg with a diameter of 18 inches had wildlife experts puzzled.

Farley's wife, Rosie, has emptied and bleached the egg, which now sits on her kitchen counter.

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