From ancient wonders to modern mysteries, join us as we explore fascinating enigmas that have finally been explained! Discover the truth behind famous phenomena that puzzled experts and captivated imaginations worldwide. These revelations might surprise you - or disappoint those hoping for more supernatural explanations.
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00:00Like a rumble of thunder in the distance, like a distant storm, that's one of the sounds.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the unsolved mysteries
00:09surrounding geography, world histories, and ancient civilizations that captured imaginations
00:14around the globe. Today, the remaining stones are a testament to the ambition and skill of their
00:22creators. Number 10, Weeping Statues. It's a statue of the Virgin Mary that appears to be crying tears
00:29inside a Reading shop. Nine News reporter Janelle Walton was inside the shop. Janelle, what did you
00:34see? You've probably seen it on the news or in a movie. A religious statue is weeping, and usually
00:40some kind of red liquid just to make it that much creepier. This phenomenon is often associated with
00:46miracles, as, you know, a statue should not be crying. However, there are many non-religious reasons
00:51why a statue might be crying. In some cases, the water is nothing but condensation, and if the
00:57statue is made of porous materials, moisture can seep through and resemble tears. There also might
01:03be psychological perceptions at play, or just good old-fashioned tampering for the sake of fame
01:08and attention. Even the Catholic Church ignores weeping statues for the most part, and have called
01:13out a number of examples as hoaxes. You're imagining it. Three of us saw it, and how do you explain that?
01:18Sleep deprivation? Parano? Delusional Personality Disorder. Number 9, The Salish Sea Discoveries. It is
01:26becoming all too common in B.C. Another foot has washed up on shore, this time in Richmond, and it looks
01:33like a woman's left foot in a New Balance running shoe. The western coast of North America is the site of
01:39one of the most gruesome mysteries in modern history. Beginning in the summer of 2007, a number
01:44of human feet, often still inside their shoes, have washed ashore in British Columbia, Tacoma,
01:50and Seattle. A number of macabre theories have been put forth, including the possibility of a serial
01:55killer. But the reality is far more mundane. People die at sea, often in tragic boating accidents,
02:02and their bodies decompose in the water. As this happens, the extremities, like hands and feet,
02:07break away from the body. And because the feet are trapped inside the shoes,
02:11they are mostly saved from decomposition and buoyed, allowing them to float to shore in the currents.
02:17Shoes and feet washing up. There's been a dozen of them or so, and you hear about them over the
02:21years, and it's just kind of a unique local phenomenon. Number 8, The Tunguska Event.
02:28In the early morning of June 30, 1908, a remote area of Russia was hit with a massive and mysterious
02:34blast. In one hour, the explosion and the great fire that followed destroy a region of forest the
02:40size of greater London. People who observed that thought the end of the world had come,
02:46judgment day, divine intervention. This blast completely leveled over 800 square miles of forest
02:52and flattened 80 million trees. No source could be found for the explosion, so no one knew what
02:59exactly happened. It's an event, and it's a mystery that would take 105 years of research before we
03:05could finally write the words. The end. Thousands of scientific papers have been written about the
03:11incident, and the area has been studied for decades, with many trying to crack the bizarre case. It is now
03:17generally agreed that a 200-foot meteor traveling 60,000 miles per hour exploded in midair over the area,
03:24resulting in what's called a meteor airburst. This airburst then leveled everything below the
03:30meteor's detonation site. If it was a meteorite, and the earth had turned a bit further, it would
03:35have destroyed St. Petersburg. An hour later, it would have destroyed Helsinki. One hour later,
03:41Stockholm, and after that, Oslo. Number 7, Crockerland. Did he tell you what we're supposed to do?
03:47I did. Well? He wants us to move the island. The 19th and 20th centuries were filled with
04:00brilliant adventures into the earth's poles, but you probably haven't heard of the Crockerland
04:05expedition. American explorer and Navy officer Robert E. Peary described an enormous mountainous
04:11land that he could see from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. He named it Crockerland after
04:16his financial backer, George Crocker, and an expedition set out to find and map it. Yet they
04:21found no such island, despite its supposedly immense size. It simply didn't exist. What a
04:27tantalizing mystery. No, seriously, it didn't exist. As we later learned through his personal diary,
04:33Peary made the whole thing up, probably to secure more funding from an excited Crocker.
04:40Where's the island? Where's the island?
04:43Number 6, the construction of the pyramids.
04:49The Giza pyramids are arguably the most famous landmarks in the world. They continue to stand tall
04:55literally after thousands of years. Their construction has baffled people for millennia,
05:00leading some to suggest that aliens must have been involved. After all, humans couldn't possibly drag
05:06and lift those stones into place, right? Well, yes, they could. Researchers believe that workers loaded
05:11the blocks onto sledges and wet the sand to make them easier to drag. They raised the blocks using
05:16ramps and levering techniques. This took tens of thousands of people decades to complete. But hey,
05:23no one said building a wonder of the world was easy. Number 5, the Windsor Hum.
05:28I've been listening to it for a while. It gets very aggravating. I'm outside quite a bit because I'm a
05:37smoker and I listen to it constantly. There are a weird number of hums heard throughout the world,
05:42each described as a persistent and irritating whine. One of the most notable examples was found in
05:48Windsor, Ontario. The sound was described by many as a low droning vibration, and it was loud enough
05:53that one evening in 2012, over 20,000 people reported it to the local police. Alas, the mystery
06:00was finally solved in 2020, and thousands of annoyed residents could finally rest easy. Literally,
06:06the sound was sourced to nearby Zug Island, a heavily industrialized area just off Detroit,
06:12and specifically the blast furnaces operated by U.S. Steel. When these furnaces were deactivated in
06:17April of that year, the sound ceased and peace was restored.
06:21To hear the folks at United States Steel tell it, this is not permanent. No mothballs,
06:27no shuttering of a plant. They're calling it an indefinite idling as they try and make their
06:31operation more efficient. Number 4, the Surgeon's Photograph.
06:351934, the first photo of the supposed Loch Ness monster incites public frenzy and a torrent of
06:42tourists looking for Nessie. It's one of the most famous photographs in cryptozoology,
06:47a massive dinosaur-like head emerging from Scotland's Loch Ness. The photo has entranced
06:52the public ever since its publication in 1934, with many believing it to be verifiable proof of
06:58the elusive Loch Ness monster. But even for those who didn't believe in the mythical monster,
07:02a lingering question still remained. What exactly was this? It wasn't until the 1990s that we got
07:09firm answers. In 1991, a man named Christian Sperling admitted that the photo was a hoax,
07:15having built the monster using a toy submarine and wood putty. He then conspired with a number
07:20of others in order to fool the Daily Mail into publishing a bogus story, which it famously did.
07:25So using plastic, wood, and a toy submarine that create this model of a creature with a long neck
07:31and a small head. Number three, Stonehenge. The awe-inspiring Stone Circle is an enduring mystery.
07:42Despite centuries of intense scrutiny. One of humanity's greatest marvels, Stonehenge has been
07:49standing for thousands of years. The widely accepted theory is that the Stonehenge landscape
07:54was a large cemetery, a place to bury and worship the dead. But where exactly did the giant stones
08:02come from? They're all pretty much symmetrical. 13 feet high, 7 feet across, and each weighing 25 tons.
08:10Experts have been trying to crack the case for hundreds of years. Some will have you believe
08:14that it was aliens, but no. It was really just the nearby woods. In 2019, researchers were able to do
08:21tests on a small area of extracted stone and sourced it to the nearby Westwoods in Wiltshire.
08:26The location has finally been pinned down, but one tantalizing question remains.
08:32How did they drag these 25-ton boulders 15 miles to the south?
08:37Clearly some very, very powerful people around at that time who were being able to control resources,
08:43control the labor force, to create some of the largest monuments we've ever seen.
08:48Number two, the collapse of the Maya civilization.
08:51The largest and most sophisticated pre-Columbian civilization of the Americas,
08:56the Maya flourished for thousands of years.
08:59They mastered mathematics and astronomy,
09:02perfected the first written language of the Western Hemisphere,
09:06and produced stunning works of art.
09:10The civilization entered its so-called classic period in the year 250,
09:15and this lasted until 900.
09:16It was around then that the entire political system collapsed,
09:20and the Maya abandoned their most important cities to move north.
09:24With this, the Maya civilization entered what is called its post-classic period.
09:29So what the heck happened?
09:30It's a mystery that has plagued historians for years.
09:33The answer was finally found in the 21st century.
09:37It turns out the Maya were so overpopulated that they damaged the environment and created a devastating drought.
09:43The extreme intensity of these droughts was disastrous.
09:49Making a carefully managed response their only hope.
09:53With their agriculture thoroughly destroyed,
09:55the Maya were forced to abandon their most populous cities.
09:59Today, the empty jungles of the Yucatan serve as a reminder that even great civilizations can fail.
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10:23Number 1. The Bermuda Triangle
10:25Everyone knows of the mythical Bermuda Triangle.
10:36Found between Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the Florida coast,
10:39the triangle is said to be a hotspot of paranormal activity,
10:42prone to swallowing ships and planes and leaving their fates unknown.
10:46It's one of the most enduring mysteries of American pop culture.
10:49Only, there isn't really a mystery, and this has been known since at least the mid-70s.
10:54That's when Larry Cush published the Bermuda Triangle mystery solved
10:58and posited that the triangle does not have a higher incident rate than any other part of the ocean.
11:03Furthermore, many of the original stories were either highly exaggerated or just outright made up.
11:09It's just a fun story and nothing more.
11:11Using the terminology of today, you would call the triangle?
11:15Well, I mean, you know, this is the oldest fake news story in the world.
11:17I mean, like, this has been around for a long time, and, you know, people build on it.
11:22Which world secret would you most like to see solved?
11:24Let us know in the comments.
11:26So people, when they see something they don't understand, they make up a myth.
11:31Mythology, superstition, curses are ways of dealing with uncertainty.