Mysterious Discoveries That Baffled Scientists
scientists they think they're so smart just because they can explain everything well even the smartest folks get stumped from time to time or at least come across a problem where the answer isn't set in stone from mysterious shipwrecks to Eternal Flames these are some discoveries and phenomena from across the world that have left scientists scratching their heads Corridor to nowhere generally speaking the older something is the less novel and surprising it is don't believe me try busting out the hamster dance at a party and see if you get any laughs with that in mind there aren't many man-made things on this Earth older than the Great Pyramid of Giza don't get me wrong it's great and all but considering it's been around for close to 4 600 years it can't have many more secrets or surprises in store for us can it a few years back egyptologists announced they had discovered what they called a deep void in the pyramid this void consists of an empty space around 100 feet long and up to 230 feet above ground now this is what most normal people might call a corridor but hey let egyptologist have their cool name the discovery is strange for two reasons firstly as mentioned earlier this pyramid is old and we thought we'd explored every nook and cranny by now secondly we don't know what the purpose of the deep void was even more strangely the Deep void was blocked by a large Granite Stone so it wasn't just a deep void it was a secret deep void we have no idea why it was kept a secret don't worry I'm not gonna say the Deep void has anything to do with aliens they were probably too busy building Mount Rushmore at the time Somewhere Over The Blood bow at some point in your life you've probably been blessed by the multi-colored Hues of gorgeous rainbows hanging in the sky if you have great Karma you may have even witnessed the chromatic Splendor of the rare double rainbow on the other hand if you've really ticked off someone upstairs they might bite your skies with a blood rainbow no this isn't a screenshot from a bloodborne in My Little Pony crossover game it's the real deal and it's exceptionally rare to boot regular rainbows occur when light shines through water droplets in the atmosphere which at the right angle act as a prism this scatters the light waves to create colorful arches red rainbows however are much more difficult to explain and many Sky Watchers and meteorologists have gone their whole careers without ever observing one the current explanation for The Morbid rainbow is that they can only occur when the sun is low in the sky around Early Sunrise or late sunset at this time of day the blue and green light from the sun is weakened by by the Earth's atmosphere this means that when the light refracts off water in the atmosphere it ends up dying what would be a typical chirpy rainbow an ominous red neat maybe Lucky Charms could release a blood rainbow edition of the cereal that turns the milk crimson tunguska trouble if a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it does it make a sound well what about millions of trees suddenly exploding yeah that would probably be pretty loud and it's exactly what happened in the Siberian Forest of Russia all the way back on June 30th 1908. that morning an estimated 80 million trees were completely flattened in these remote forests with a rumbling noise that could be heard from miles away one man who experienced the event was sat on his porch only to be knocked off his chair with a red hot feeling all over his body and he was in vanavara 40 miles away even as far as the UK the event was measurable on seismic detectors and registered as high as 5.2 on the Richter Scale now you might think that a literally groundbreaking mystery explosion would warrant a median investigation but the Russians didn't get around to it until 1927. 19 years later it was Leonid Kulik of the Saint Petersburg Museum who eventually trekked down into the freezing cold Wilderness of Siberia he discovered a mind-blowing 800 square miles of trees had been completely flattened away from a single point Kulik theorized this must have been the blast origin Zone with the most likely cause being meteoric impact there was only one problem the Rock left no Trace behind it was almost like the trees just got tired and gave up on standing the best explanation we currently have is that the blast was caused by a space rock that exploded before hitting the ground it's estimated The Rock was around 120 feet across and weighed 220 million pounds which is four times the weight of the Statue of Liberty and on that entry it reached a temperature of around 44 500 degrees Fahrenheit this heat combined with the Quick Change in atmospheric pressure caused it to detonate with the force of nearly 185 atomic bombs which is about as loud as one of my dad's sneezes still due to the nature of the event this is just our best current explanation with others believing it was caused by who could have guessed it aliens why is it always aliens why not at least something cool like goblins or mole people well what do you think was the tunguska event caused by an exploding space rock or land mermaids let me know in the comments below and be sure to like And subscribe for more crazy content okay what's next exploding toad syndrome toads are strange and beloved animals known for leaping Great Heights buffing themselves up and suddenly and violently exploding wait what am I the only one who doesn't remember the part of Wind in the Willows where Mr Toad suddenly explodes into a million pieces no in the mid-2000s residents of Hamburg Germany bore witness to something grotesque toads spontaneously exploding presumingly no reason in some cases toad guts were expelled as far as a yard from the poor desecrated amphibians upon further investigation upwards of a thousand toad bodies were discovered in the area scientists tested the nearby Pond's water quality search for any dangerous fungi and even hypothesize the frogs had contracted a strange offshoot disease from horses at a nearby racetrack much like the poor toads however none of these theories held water upon closer examination it was found that strangely the Toads all had circular incisions on their back and were missing their livers this led scientists to the conclusion that the explosions were the fault of crows who really do continue to be the most dastardly Birds on the planet the clever Crews figured out that the Toad's skin was poisonous but also that with a swift stab they could pluck a Toad's liver out with their beaks this caused the toads severe internal damage and when the Toads would Puff themselves up as part of their defense mechanism their lungs would continue to stretch and inflate to the point of bursting well that's a gross horrifying mystery solved look after your livers kids the dance of death our next tale of the inexplicable takes us to the small German Town of Stroudsburg in the year 1518. One Summer Morning Frau trofia stepped out of her home and spontaneously broke into dance she buggied all day and the next morning at the crack of dawn burst into the streets and boogied once more like only medieval Germans could do trafeeah danced until her feet were bloody and eventually attracted a crowd despite the lack of Music some kind of earworm was going around as other townsfolk began to join her the dancers had no idea why they were dancing some were clearly in pain whilst others claimed to feel possessed upwards of 400 people joined the impromptu Rave which is way livelier than my local Club what wasn't so loudly was well the dancers themselves as they began dropping like flies this is because many of the townsfolk were old or just not cut out for hours of dancing in the Summer sun but what a way to go Strasbourg Physicians diagnosed the dancers with the awesomely named hot blood Affliction The Cure they came up with was to hire musicians to liven things up thinking folks would Tire themselves out and go home as you might imagine adding more bass didn't help and at this point 15 people were dabbing themselves to death every day eventually Stroudsburg took the Footloose approach and banned music altogether but of course this didn't stop the crazed answers what did eventually work was for some reason carding the dancers up a mountain in honor of Saint Vitus he was the guy you went to if you had a trembling related illness to this day the most convincing explanation was that the townsfolk were suffering from a case of mass hysteria which is a broad term that describes when large groups of people suffer simultaneous mental breakdowns this is sort of understandable seeing as the region was devastated by a famine in 1517 before leprosy and smallpox broke out in early 1518. sheesh I can sympathize after all
I like to dance my troubles the way too the lightning hours watching thunderstorms can be an amazing experience there's something incredible about witnessing The Majestic yet destructive power of nature dancing across a dark sky unless of course you live near the katatumbo river in Venezuela where thunderstorms are less awe-inspiring and more gridlock levels of annoying this is because near the mouth of the katatumbo lightning storms can last for 10 hours at a time and can occur as many as 150 days out of the year that means that this small area of Venezuela receives 1.2 million lightning strikes per year which is more than the UK Germany and Sweden combined I don't know what the people of Venezuela did to annoy Thor so much but he's certainly letting them know how he feels according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration most lightning storms tend to last between 10 and 20 minutes so a 10 hour light show is pretty baffling the current theory is that the areas simply has a perfect storm of lightning generating editions warm temperatures high moisture in the air from the proximity to the Sea and mountainous terrain which cool air is forced over before hitting the warm turbulent air rising from the River Basin these conditions prove perfect for ThunderClan formations which floats 16 000 feet above the catatumbo and once they start thundering they rarely stop man I have trouble sleeping if there's a car stalled outside thank God I don't live next to the infinite thunderstorm sloth tunnels these days sloths are known for their slow reflexes tree hugging and lackadaisical attitudes in other words they're me in animal form but what if I told you that sloths have actually mellowed out over the years you see sloths haven't always been the lazy Lumbers we know them as today in fact a few thousand years ago they were getting stuff done according to Heinrich Frank professor at the University of the Rio Grande giant slaws were unbelievably tunneling through the Earth at a power and speed that would put modern jackhammers to shame as recently as 10 000 years ago sometime in the 2000s Frank discovered an enormous network of tunnels near the sleepy little Brazilian town of Novo hamburgo which I'm sad to say isn't Portuguese for new hamburger these tunnels bore huge claw marks along the walls and were as tall as six feet in most areas which is more than enough space for a human to stroll through if that wasn't crazy enough the largest of these tunnels is 2 1000 feet long that's nearly twice as long as the Eiffel Tower is tall Frank and his team believe the tunnels are the work of multiple generations of giant sloth who in total must have moved 4 400 tons of Earth that's the equivalent of 30 houses worth of dirt while the exact species of sloth isn't known it was possibly Darwin's ground sloth a species that could grow up to 10 feet long and likely use the tunnels as an extra large burrow to live in and raise young other researchers believe the tunnels may even be the work of an extinct species of Giant armadillo to be honest both these answers sound cool to me I wonder which would have won in a fight though the Bay of jars roughly 15 miles from Sunny Rio de Janeiro sits Brazil's idyllic guanabara Bay where you can enjoy Golden Sands tropical fish and Floridians on vacation loudly complaining about the Wi-Fi but underneath those Azure waves lies a mysterious secret one that might have been undisturbed for thousands of years while enjoying a little deep sea exploration American archaeologist Robert Mark stumbled upon something strange or is it swumbled upon something strange either way he found this perplexing mass of Ceramics Marx identified the pots as amphora which is nerdspeak for tall jars these jars were typically used to board ships to store grain and wine on Long voyages but what makes the ampharettes so baffling is the fact that they're from ancient Rome if you're scratching your head right now because you don't remember learning about any Roman expeditions to the Americas you're right the first Europeans arrived in South America in 1492 and there's evidence that Vikings had a small settlement in North America some 500 years before that these Roman pods however date back to the 3rd Century BCE meaning they're 1300 years older than even the Viking settlement this discovery had obvious profound implications for our understanding of the continent's history and raised plenty of questions how did they get there was a distant shipwreck swept towards the bay did the Romans ever step foot on South American soil not long after the incident Brazil barred marks from entering the country and placed a Countrywide ban on underwater exploration now while this is pretty compelling evidence Brazil is covering up mermaid evidence others have theorized the country might simply be trying to preserve the myth that the land was discovered by the Portuguese actually that's not such a crackpot Theory foreign fall if I told you our next entry concerned something called The Eternal Flame you'd probably think it was the subtitle of the new Avatar sequel the Eternal Flame doesn't reside on Pandora though but our own terrestrial Chestnut Ridge National Park in New York situated along a short Trail the Eternal Flame Falls site marks a smoldering fire inside a small cave crystal clear water trickles over the mouth the site looks pretty cozy and the fire looks like it was lit by campers just a moment ago in fact the Eternal Flame has been burning inside that cave for potentially thousands of years though it's impossible to tell it's theorized the flame was first lit by Native American several thousand years ago it may be small but considering I can't keep a matchlet long enough to let a few candles on my birthday cake it's still pretty impressive the Eternal Flame isn't the only permanent fire on Earth though the most well-known and flashy is probably turkmenistan's darvaza crater colorfully nicknamed the gates to hell for obvious reason the thing is as imposing as darvaza is we at least understand it crater is simply above a large natural deposit of methane gas which caught fire and has been smoldering ever since what's especially strange about the Eternal Flame however is that scientists still aren't certain of its cause previously it was thought that the flame was kept alike by an underground deposit of ancient and extremely hot minerals which contributed to the production of natural gases researchers at Indiana University recently uncovered however that the minerals in this location are much cooler than previously thought possible for the production of natural gas this means the flame continues to burn using gas produced by as yet unknown means the future study of which may reveal revolutionary methods for producing gas also despite its grandiose name and ability to stay burning even in the cold the Eternal Flame is not quite Eternal and has gone out several times before being re-lit don't get too judgmental though it's still hotter than you are three whale Rock when I was a kid I always thought you found whales in the country of Wales which now that I'm older I understand it's completely stupid instead you need to head to the middle of the jungle in Thailand in someone also known as three whale rock is a collection of three enormous sandstone rocks situated in Thailand's isan region it's so named because well look at it they look like a family of magical ancient stone whales that swim through the leaves of the jungle oh and when I say ancient I mean ancient three-wheel rock is a staggering 75 million years old meaning these Rocky whales have existed on Earth longer than actual whales which have been around just 50 million years the rocks are reachable via an extensive network of trails through the jungle and the view from the top is quite breathtaking from the 980 foot high precipice visitors are able to see the Macon Coast the fuwua forest and the packaging mountains of Laos just be careful up there as there aren't any guard rails though the area was seldom visited by tourists until the late 2010s the Region's Buddhist monks had known about the site for a long time and some of their old Huts still stand nearby so I had a three enormous sandstone rocks end up jutting out of the Jungle well that's still a bit of a mystery Sandstone is formed when tiny grains of minerals like quartz and feldspar compact over millions of years now Thailand has a potentially substantial amount of these minerals across the country which does explain the whale's component materials what isn't clear is what would have compacted those materials into such specific shapes while a jungle grew around them maybe they're just taking their time enjoying a particularly tasty Buffet of stone krill foreign it's time to talk about snow donuts and no I don't mean what certain benches look like after a snowstorm or when a car does Donuts in the snow sick as that may be no I'm talking about this thing an actual giant donut made of snow this peculiar hoop was spotted by a maintenance crew in Washington along the North Cascades Highway in Washington DC now while this may look like the work of a particularly creative and patient kid the donuts photographer Mike Stanford a seasoned Avalanche forecaster is certain snow Donuts are naturally occurring phenomena but what could cause something so perfectly round and delicious looking is it a wedding ring for a snow giant a frosty Sombrero someone punched the center out of a tire for a monster truck ice sculpture well according to Stanford the donut occurs when a clump of snow falls from a tree or Cliff face if the conditions are just right when the snow falls it will form a ball and when it lands the center will collapse in on itself leaving us with a snow nut or snowroller as they're typically called I think snow nut is way better though and despite this explanation Stanford notes that the snowy disc pictured here is exceptionally big bigger than he's ever seen before it appears to be about 26 inches tall with an 8 inch hole in the center which I'm sorry to report probably isn't big enough to fit your head through I can't be the only one who's hungry for donuts right now am I foreign bird watch that old saying birds of a feather Kamikaze together well it certainly is in the village of jatenga Assam for most of the year jatinga is a small Scenic sleepy Village of around just 1200 residents in August and September however the humble little town becomes a bloody bird bath during those two months locals in jatenga hang lanterns from poles which the birds are drawn to like moths to a flame the birds will groggly flutter down towards the lanterns some injury or even remove themselves from the gene pool on the way down while others are plugged from the air by locals this phenomenon only occurs for a limited time in jatanga and is especially strange as it doesn't just affect particularly stupid birds of a single species but a wide variety it was originally thought the birds might be migratory and thus more easily confused by unknown surroundings but further investigation revealed that most of the birds behaving this way are local and familiar with the region the only clue scientists currently have is that most of the birds affected are diurnal meaning they're usually active during the day but for some reason are compelled to fly around and get in accidents like a bunch of drunk drivers for a few months in jatanga according to one source during these two months of bird accidents the locals eat well Yak this story Bears assorted resemblance to that of the Overton bridge in Scotland which dogs just can't help but throw themselves off of since the 1950s over 600 confused pooches have leapt from the bridge some to their unfortunate demise the leading theory here is that the trees and foliage nearby the bridge conceal how steep the drop actually is additionally some suggest the smell of small animals like mink nearby the bridge might entice and excite the dogs into haphazardly jumping over the side but this is all just guesswork as one local Hunter has gone on record stating there aren't actually any mink in the area man I feel bad for these Scottish dogs and yatinga birds maybe we should consider opening an animal mental health hotline you know for the dogs that just aren't told they're a good boy enough it's raining catfish and dogs birds falling out of the sky is creepy but it at least makes sense on some level well what if I told you that fish can also fall from the sky not only that it's probably a whole lot more common than you think there are dozens of stories of individuals like Lisa lobury who was hit in the head by a falling catfish in 2016 and a Florida family whose pool was invaded by a falling fish in 2017. now I may not be a biologist but even I remember that fish swim in water not fly in the sky well after some bickering a few consensuses on these events have been reached regarding these fishy free Falls and many loan instances the pedestrians being pelted by fish from above they live in areas with large birds of prey thus it can be assumed that a bird caught a fish only to come down with a case of butter Talons mid-flight dropping it on the unsuspecting victim Below in some cases scientists even theorize these fish may have been regurgitated mid-flight gross as if being hit by a free-falling non-digested fish wasn't bad enough while this may explain singular fish hits and instances where dozens of fish reportedly fall from the sky this explanation just doesn't cut it what's more likely in these cases is that violent winds waterspouts and updrafts sweep the poor animals into the air where they likely spend a few panic and confuse seconds before plummeting down to the earth below and you thought storms were inconvenient for us because they slowed out traffic imagine if they could fling you into another bio well there you have it some powerfully perplexing discoveries that left scientists baffled for a while at least which did you find the most confusing and do you know anything modern science might have a hard time explaining let me know in the comments down below and thanks for watching
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