Soda Machine Appeared and Vanished Before Mystery Could Be Solved

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Seattle is home to the most mysterious vending machine in the world. It looks like it came straight outta the '80s, and the most unusual part? Nobody knows how it got there. And one day, it vanished just as mysteriously and suddenly as it appeared! Here are some urban legends that to this day remain unsolved mysteries!  Animation is created by Bright Side.

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00:00Now, you've heard of the strange Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, right?

00:04But wait, there's a new mystery to be solved.

00:08In the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood sits the world's most mysterious vending machine.

00:13It looks like it comes straight out of the 80s, and the weirdest part?

00:17Nobody knows how it got there.

00:19Despite having no clear owner, the Supernatural machine is fully functional

00:23and will shoot out a refreshing soda for just 75 cents.

00:27But you won't be getting your usual yummy selection.

00:31The cans that pop out of it are all drinks that haven't been seen in the U.S. since the 80s.

00:36If you're feeling extra brave, there's a button marked Mystery,

00:40which will dispense a completely random can of soda.

00:43One guy spent five bucks on the Mystery button,

00:46and the spooky machine popped out six entirely different brands of soda,

00:50none of which had their own button.

00:52There are rumors of Hubba Bubba soda and even bacon-flavored cola coming out of the vendor.

00:57Even weirder, one day, the regular buttons from the machine all vanished

01:01and were replaced with the uniform Mystery buttons.

01:05Whenever the machine breaks, it's always fixed almost immediately.

01:08But no one ever sees this happening.

01:11So where do the sodas come from?

01:13Who stocks them?

01:14And the most important part, who's getting all the money?

01:17It looks like we'll never find out,

01:19as back in June 2018, the vending machine vanished into thin air.

01:25All that's left in its spot is a note that reads,

01:27Went for a walk.

01:29No one has seen it since the day it disappeared.

01:32Some people think the machine belonged to the owners of Broadway Locksmith,

01:36the store behind which the vendor was located.

01:39This would make sense.

01:40It was linked up to the store's power supply

01:42and was locked with a lock sold in the store.

01:45But the locksmiths have always denied this

01:47and said that, like everyone else,

01:49they've never seen anyone open the machine.

01:52They might be telling the truth,

01:53as Seattle vending machine permit officials revealed

01:56that there are no official records of the vending machine ever existing

02:00or being linked to the store.

02:02Well, it's hard to keep tabs on a vanishing vending machine.

02:06The legend of the ghost ship of Northumberland Strait

02:09has puzzled experts for over 200 years.

02:12There have been numerous sightings of a mystery ship

02:15with three or four masts and pure white sails.

02:18It appears off the coast of Canada,

02:21and according to local folklore,

02:23the mystery ship emerges right before a storm.

02:26The weirdest part?

02:27The ship is said to be completely engulfed in flames.

02:31Legend has it that in 1900,

02:33a group of sailors raced toward the phantom ship in a small rowboat.

02:37They were aiming to rescue the crew,

02:39but only ended up watching the ship suddenly vanish before their eyes.

02:42In 2008, a boy reported seeing an unexplained bright white and gold ship,

02:48which vanished into thin air.

02:50There have been so many eyewitness accounts across the last 200 years,

02:55all of which give the exact same description of the phantom ship.

02:59One explanation is that the legend came about due to natural electrical phenomenon.

03:04That's pretty much lightning to you and me.

03:06Some say these flashes of bright light led to people seeing the illusion of a ship.

03:11Others believe that moonlight reflecting off thick fog

03:14is causing people to see things which aren't there.

03:18Aha.

03:19Have you ever danced the night away?

03:21Well, in the 16th century,

03:23Strasbourg, France danced the entire summer away.

03:26The townspeople were seemingly struck by a sudden and uncontrollable urge to dance,

03:32which lasted three months.

03:33It all started when some woman stepped into the street

03:36and began to inexplicably bust a move.

03:40She kept dancing for an entire week,

03:42and before long, dozens of people joined her.

03:45The bizarre episode began in July and didn't end until September.

03:49There are stories of similar manias happening in Germany,

03:52the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

03:54One theory is that a stress-induced hysteria took over the city.

03:58Another suggests that the dancers were part of a super weird movement.

04:02Theory number three suggests that the townspeople

04:05accidentally ate some toxic mold that produced wild hallucinations.

04:10Um, dance fever?

04:12In 2020, a star completely vanished from the night sky with zero explanation.

04:18Astronomers had had the star on their radar for around 20 years

04:22as it had an eerie blue glow.

04:24The star even shone brighter than the sun.

04:26Some say it vanished into a black hole,

04:29but that would result in a massive explosion called a supernova

04:32that we'd have definitely spotted.

04:35Others say that the star lost some of its mass,

04:38or that huge amounts of space dust are blocking the view.

04:41Hey, down in front, I'm watching a star here!

04:44For years, residents of the small city of Taos, New Mexico,

04:48have been haunted by a low-frequency noise

04:51drifting in with the desert's air.

04:54But it's not all residents.

04:56Only 2% report hearing the strange noise.

04:58And even those people describe it very differently.

05:02Some believe the sounds are caused by weird acoustics in the area.

05:05Others think it's mass hysteria.

05:07Well, some think there's a spookier reason.

05:10To this day, no one has ever found the source of the mysterious hum.

05:16You're walking alone in the woods and suddenly stumble across a random staircase

05:20that comes out of nowhere and doesn't go anywhere either.

05:24There are hundreds of reports of these random staircases in forests all over the world

05:28from the US, Italy, Cambodia, and the Philippines.

05:32The staircases don't seem abandoned.

05:34They're usually well-cleaned and free of vegetation.

05:37They never appear at the edges of forests either.

05:40It's always deep in the heart, usually several miles from any town.

05:45The legend of the stairs takes a creepy turn

05:47as they almost always appear in areas where someone has disappeared.

05:52People claim to have even seen the stairs move.

05:55One man climbed some stairs hidden deep in the woods to escape a stray dog.

06:00While he claims he was only up there for 5 minutes,

06:03legend suggests that he had been gone for 5 years.

06:06More and more sightings of these mysterious staircases are appearing.

06:11But despite new evidence, it seems we're no closer to finding out where they're appearing from or why.

06:17In Seattle, back in 1954, there was a bizarre windshield pitting galore.

06:23Residents began seeing holes and dents in their car windshields.

06:27Police initially believed it to be a kid causing trouble with a BB device.

06:31But the same thing began happening in other nearby towns.

06:35By April, over 3,000 cases of cracked windshields had been reported

06:39before the unexplained event abruptly stopped.

06:43Some people think the unexplained damage came from a new transmitter at a local radio station.

06:48They were convinced the radio waves were damaging the glass.

06:52Others believed it to be the work of sand fleas who burrowed into the windshields.

06:57Cosmic rays is another popular theory.

06:59But it was never actually confirmed whether the windshields were even cracked in the first place.

07:05Most reports suggest that the residents imagined the whole incident.

07:08But no one knows why.

07:11In November 2020, an unexplained metal monolith was discovered in a remote area of the Red Rock Canyon State Park in Utah.

07:20People were left baffled by the strange object.

07:22But just days later, it vanished.

07:24Some people say that the object was removed because its random appearance sparked so much media coverage

07:30with links to aliens and other supernatural theories.

07:34But the authorities denied ever moving the structure.

07:37Stranger still, less than two weeks after people stumbled across the first bizarre creation,

07:43a second monolith was discovered nearly halfway across the planet.

07:47A third one soon appeared in California,

07:49with a fourth appearing in New Mexico but vanishing the very same day.

07:53No one knows where the monolith came from or why or if more will ever appear.

07:59A world-renowned Swedish diving team were searching for sunken treasure in the Gulf of Bafnia

08:06when they stumbled across a 200-foot object which was covered in unnatural or alien-looking symbols.

08:13There was so much electrical energy in the area at the time

08:16that the divers couldn't snap a clear shot of the mysterious object.

08:19The perfectly round disc on the ocean floor looked eerily like a UFO.

08:25The divers, some of whom had 20 years of experience,

08:28reported having never seen anything quite like it before.

08:32Known as the Baltic Sea Anomaly,

08:34the origins of this object and what it actually is are yet to be discovered.

08:39A world-renowned Swedish means the sword.

08:55A world-renowned Swedish means the spark in the Gulf of Bafia.

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