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Our planet is full of strange and breathtaking mysteries. From shadow giants that terrify hikers in the mountains to odd phenomena that scientists took decades to explain, this compilation brings you the most incredible natural events caught on camera and studied by experts. Why do some places create ghostly figures on the landscape? What causes rivers to boil or rocks to move on their own? And how do these phenomena shape the way we see the world around us? Animation is created by Bright Side.
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00:01Ha ha, you come to sunny California and go for a hike in the Santa Lucia Mountains.
00:06There, you have a strange, unpleasant feeling, as if someone's watching you.
00:12You look around, but don't see a single soul.
00:15That's when you glance at the tops of distant mountains in front of you, and your heart skips a beat.
00:20Up on the peaks, you can see the outline of a giant humanoid figure,
00:25arms stretched out with a magnificent full rainbow circling it.
00:29This mysterious figure is dressed in all black.
00:32You can't make out any facial expressions or detail, but you can see it moving.
00:37Then it vanishes right before your eyes.
00:41Congrats! You've just witnessed the Dark Watchers,
00:44a phenomenon that's been terrifying hikers in the California mountains for over 300 years.
00:50Even now, scientists can't give an exact explanation for this mysterious appearance.
00:55What we do know is, it's completely natural.
00:58Uh, probably.
01:00One theory claims that there are no silhouettes at all.
01:03The human brain just thinks up images created by shadows the clouds cast on the mountains.
01:09Over the centuries, people share stories about this legend,
01:12and their minds begin to show it, building recognizable images.
01:16The same can happen to you.
01:17Like when you see the contours of a human face on a burnt piece of toast,
01:21or the shape of a dog in a passing cloud.
01:24The most accepted scientific explanation is what's called a broken specter.
01:30It's when sunlight gets bent by drops of fog or clouds.
01:34That explains the rainbow surrounding these figures.
01:37As for the shadow, it's only your own being stretched and projected on the mountains before you.
01:43After all, these figures usually show up when the sun is behind the witness.
01:48Natural or not, the vanishing, mysterious figure scared the wits out of you.
01:53So, you head east and find yourself in the desert.
01:57The blazing sun beats down on your back.
01:59There's nothing for hundreds of miles around.
02:02Hard to believe this dry, lifeless plain was once the bottom of a lake.
02:06You notice a long trail in the sand, as if someone was pushing or pulling something really heavy across the
02:13ground.
02:14You follow the strange trail, and at the end you find a single large stone.
02:19But why would anyone drag a heavy rock across the middle of the desert?
02:23But nothing touched the stone.
02:25It moved by itself.
02:27It's a phenomenon called sailing stones.
02:30Every winter, ice covers the ground here.
02:32When a strong enough wind blows, the stone starts to glide across the slippery surface.
02:38Once the ice melts, all that's left is a winding trail behind a single lonesome rock.
02:45Well, for some relief from the scorching California sun, we head to Antarctica.
02:50Snow, ice, and more blinding sun.
02:52Yep, it's a desert too.
02:54The light is almost blinding.
02:56You squint, and off in the distance, you see something red sticking out from all the surrounding endless white.
03:03As you get closer, you realize it's a waterfall.
03:06An ominous red cascade flowing from the glacier.
03:10Splashes fly in all directions and stain the white snow.
03:14Don't worry, these so-called bloodfalls are nothing of the sort.
03:19Millions of years ago, I wasn't around then.
03:21A glacier formed over a pond and blocked access to sunlight, heat, and oxygen.
03:27Then the pond managed to break through the glacier with a little trickle of water.
03:31When such salty water with high levels of iron meets oxygen, it creates that scarlet rust color.
03:38This is the only waterfall of its kind in the world.
03:41Now, in the town of Taos, New Mexico, locals hear a strange hum every day.
03:47But not all of them.
03:48For some reason, only about 2% of the residents can hear the sound.
03:53Some theories proposed it's caused by the location's unusual acoustics.
03:58Others put it down to some strange auditory hallucination or even something more sinister.
04:05Unexplainable sounds happen on other worlds as well.
04:08In 2020, the Mars rover recorded a strange hum coming from the Red Planet.
04:14It's a quiet, continuous drone that sometimes fluctuates because of Marsquakes.
04:19Back on Earth, we head to the warm rainforest of Southeast Asia.
04:24You see a tree that looks as if someone poured paint all over it.
04:28But the rainbow eucalyptus was painted by nature.
04:31Its unusual bark changes colors over time like a kaleidoscope.
04:35It starts off as a bright green shade, then red, orange, purple, and finally brown.
04:41Then the colorful cycle starts again.
04:44One of the biggest mysteries of nature is ball lightning.
04:48It's a glowing blue, orange, or yellow sphere that appears during a thunderstorm.
04:52Many witnesses say they hear a hissing sound and detect a strong odor with it.
04:58The first mention of ball lightning described it breaking through a window and disappearing.
05:02As with any mystery, scientists can't explain the exact cause.
05:06A popular theory is that ordinary lightning strikes the ground
05:10and causes a reaction between oxygen and vaporized soil elements.
05:14Ball lightning often occurs during earthquakes,
05:17when it usually takes the form of a blue flame coming out of the ground.
05:21The ball lightning phenomenon happens all over the world.
05:25But so far, no one's been able to snap a picture of it.
05:29There's an extremely unusual volcano in Java.
05:32If you go there at night, you'll see an electric blue flame burning from the ground,
05:37along with oozing bright blue lava.
05:39It's incredibly hot, but that's not actually lava.
05:43All this unusual blue is sulfur gas escaping from crevices in the volcano and catching on fire.
05:50It also condenses into a liquid form and looks like blue lava flowing down.
05:56As soon as you come to the Nambib Desert, you immediately notice something very strange.
06:02Sprinkled among the dry grasslands are almost perfect circles of dirt where nothing grows.
06:08These massive polka dots are called fairy circles.
06:11And, you guessed it, nobody really knows what causes them.
06:15The likely culprit is termites eating the grass around their underground colony.
06:20Well, that could explain the circle's differing sizes.
06:23The bugs continue to eat as the colony expands outwards.
06:27But they stop before they encroach on a neighboring colony.
06:30The patches where you do see grass show a sort of boundary separating different termite populations.
06:36Or so goes the theory.
06:39Heading down under to Australia's Lake Hilliard.
06:42Your eyes don't deceive you.
06:43Yes, that lake is bubblegum pink and is perfectly safe to swim in.
06:49The giant pink puddle is a salt lake.
06:51And it's not the only one of its kind in the world.
06:54Salt lakes are pink because of a kind of algae and other microorganisms living in them.
06:59They produce a red pigment to protect themselves from the sun.
07:02What's unique about Lake Hilliard, though, is the water is still pink, even if you scoop it up into a
07:08glass.
07:09And it remains bright pink all year round.
07:12The same can't be said about other pink lakes.
07:16Japan is home to one of the most famous active volcanoes in the world.
07:20It's special because it creates an incredible natural phenomenon.
07:24A dirty thunderstorm.
07:26The volcano regularly spews out a black cloud of smoke, ash, and lightning.
07:31During an ordinary storm, ice crystals collide with each other and cause discharge, creating lightning.
07:38In a dirty thunderstorm, particles of volcanic ash collide instead of ice.
07:44A peaceful night on the beach.
07:46The waves wash up on the shore and glow neon blue.
07:50But it's not the water that's glowing.
07:52It's the creatures living in it.
07:54This phenomenon is called bioluminescence.
07:57Plankton and algae release this glow when waves disturb them.
08:02Some fish, squid, and crustaceans can emit neon light as well to lure prey.
08:08No time to walk along the shore enjoying the natural light show.
08:11Hurry!
08:12We're heading out to open sea.
08:14There's no storm or wind at all.
08:15Which is why it's so surprising when you see a massive wave five stories high suddenly sweep across the calm
08:22waters.
08:23It nearly overturns your boat.
08:25But just as soon as it arrives, it vanishes in an instant.
08:29What was that?
08:31This unpredictable and still unexplained danger is called a rogue wave.
08:37One theory of how they form is from the sea's surface encountering a strong headwind.
08:42But remember, you didn't feel any wind blowing.
08:45Theory number two, and the most accepted one, different waves combine to form one large one.
08:51It's something called kinetic vampirism.
08:55Under certain natural conditions, waves accumulate and exchange kinetic energy.
09:00Among all the waves, there will be one that absorbs the energy from the others like a vampire.
09:06When a lot of energy is accumulated, it releases itself in the form of a giant wave.
09:14So, in Westbrook, Maine, people saw an enormous ice disc in January 2019.
09:21This disc was like a wittery carousel.
09:23It was spinning away in the Pernodscot River.
09:26Residents called it everything from an icy lazy Susan to a frozen spinning wheel.
09:31It was estimated to be around 300 feet wide, which made it one of the biggest ice discs ever seen.
09:37Weirdly, the spinning ice disc notion isn't new.
09:41They've shown up in places like Russia and Washington before.
09:44They were almost always a perfect circle.
09:47So, why do they happen?
09:49Well, some scientists in 1997 thought it was because river water created a whirlpool effect around a chunk of ice,
09:56smoothing it out to be perfectly circular.
09:58Yet, in 2016, other scientists claimed that river currents helped these discs get started.
10:04But temperature changes kept them twirling.
10:07Warmer water makes the ice melt and sink, creating a vortex that keeps the disc spinning.
10:12The warmer the water, the faster it spins.
10:17Ever heard of the Hestelin lights of Norway?
10:20They aren't the same as northern lights.
10:22Think of these lights as glowing balls.
10:24They have been seen since at least the 1930s.
10:27These luminous wonders show up in all sorts of colors and shapes.
10:31Sometimes they flicker, and other times they just chill in the air.
10:35The Hestelin lights can show up 10 to 20 times a week.
10:39They appear both during the day and at night.
10:42They can last for just a few seconds or hover for over an hour.
10:46Interestingly, nobody has a clue about what exactly they are.
10:50The efforts to understand these lights include Project Hestelin, started in 1983,
10:56and later projects like the Triangle Project.
10:59Despite ongoing research, there's no consensus on the origin of the lights.
11:04Some suggested explanations include misperception of celestial bodies, aircraft, or mirages.
11:11One theory ties the lights to airborne dust from mining,
11:15while another mentions plasma, formed by ionized air and dust during radon decay.
11:20Okay.
11:23Ringing rocks is a cool geological thing you probably didn't know about,
11:27and it's our next stop on the Mysterious Natural Phenomena Tour.
11:31You can find them in Bucks County in the U.S.
11:34If you give these rocks a hit with a hammer or another rock, they start ringing.
11:39Scientists have been studying them, but the mystery remains.
11:42There are different hypotheses about this one, too.
11:45Things like the size and shape of the boulders and how they're stacked can affect the sounds they make.
11:51But that alone doesn't give them the ability to ring.
11:54Even though the sound is often described as metallic,
11:57it's likely because of the rock's density and internal stress, not just its iron content.
12:03A scientific experiment from the 1960s suggested that the ringing ability came from some internal stress,
12:10not external weathering.
12:12The live rocks found in the middle of boulder fields showed expansion or relaxation after being cut,
12:19indicating internal elastic stresses.
12:22A slow weathering rate in dry fields could cause these stresses.
12:27The relic stress theory suggests that these boulders act like guitar strings.
12:31A de-stressed boulder gives a dull thud, but a stressed one resonates at different frequencies.
12:37The boulders can still ring when removed from their fields, leading to myths about stealing them.
12:43Most fields are now cleared of smaller ringers, and breaking large boulders stops the ringing.
12:48Large equipment is needed to move the remaining small ringers, weighing over a ton.
12:56Now, let's talk about the Naga fireballs.
12:59They only show up along the Mekong River in Asia.
13:02These picky fireballs hang out in just a 155-mile stretch of the river.
13:07The reddish glowing balls rise naturally from the water into the air.
13:12Their scope ranges from small particles to the size of a basketball.
13:16The reported number of fireballs varies from tens to thousands per night.
13:21They can be spotted all year round, but they seem to go wild during the full moon in late autumn.
13:27Why?
13:28Well, that's just another one of their little mysteries.
13:30Some have tried to explain the phenomenon scientifically.
13:34One theory suggests that flammable phosphine gas from the marshy environment could be the cause.
13:40However, skeptics argue that spontaneous ignition isn't likely to be the reason.
13:44Another scientific explanation involves free-floating plasma orbs created when surface electricity is discharged into a solution.
13:53Still, these typically occur in controlled settings during experiments, and not naturally.
14:01We can carry on with ball lightning.
14:03It's a super rare thing, a glowing ball that shows up in the air.
14:07It likes to make an appearance close to the ground during thunderstorms, hanging out with regular lightning.
14:12It can be red, orange, yellow, white, or blue, and it's often accompanied by a hissing sound and a funky
14:20smell.
14:21This flashy sphere of light is a quick show.
14:24It lasts just a few seconds, zooming around, and then poof!
14:28It's gone, sometimes quietly, sometimes with a little pop.
14:32Ball lightning might seem like a troublemaker, but it's usually harmless.
14:36Sure, it's been known to burn or melt stuff on occasion, but it's not out to get us.
14:42Scientists aren't entirely sure why it happens or how it's related to regular lightning.
14:47People have been tossing around ideas like weird air or gas behavior, high-density plasma stuff, or even a vortex
14:54of glowing gases.
14:55Even microwave radiation trapped in a plasma bubble is on the list.
14:59But don't get it confused with bead lightning.
15:02That's a different one, more like a string of beads.
15:05And it happens when a bolt of lightning sticks around for a good chunk of a second.
15:12Shh!
15:13We're now at the Mapini Silent Zone.
15:16It's this spot near this place in Mexico.
15:18The story goes that in this desert patch, you can't pick up any radio signals or talk to anyone.
15:24In July 1970, a rocket from Utah went off course and landed here.
15:30It was carrying some sort of cobalt.
15:32Authorities had to haul away tons of soil from the crash site.
15:36Now, thanks to the cleanup, the Silent Zone is wrapped up in myths.
15:40People talk about weird magnetic stuff missing with radios, and about plants and critters going through mutations.
15:47Well, locals go with it, boosting tourism in the region.
15:53All right, we can now talk a bit about the sun.
15:56Well, it's not just a big ball of fire.
15:58It's got an outer layer called the corona.
16:01Think of it as an invisible sun jacket made of gases.
16:04You usually can't see it because the sun is super bright.
16:08But there's a trick.
16:09During a total solar eclipse, when the moon slides between us and the sun,
16:14the corona shows up, all glowing and white.
16:17The corona is scorching hot, even hotter than the sun's surface, which is kind of weird.
16:22Scientists are on a mission to crack this heat mystery.
16:25They found something called heat bobs shooting from the sun into the corona,
16:30exploding and warming things up even more.
16:32But that might be just one piece of the puzzle.
16:36You see, the sun's surface is like a playground covered in magnetic fields.
16:40These magnetic fields create cool shapes on the sun, like loops and streamers.
16:45Special telescopes help us see these cool patterns up close.
16:49The corona stretches way out into space.
16:52And from there, it sends out the solar wind that moves through our solar system.
16:56Its particles are so speedy that they escape the sun's gravity.
17:03So, there's this cool spot called Koala Sangalore Beach
17:07that you can only check out when the tide is low.
17:09The timing changes every day, and you can't get there when the tide is high.
17:13But most of the time, it's hiding under the sea, not even on the map.
17:18But when the tide's just right, bam, it pops up.
17:22Kind of like Malaysia's own version of Salar de Uyuni.
17:25People call it the mirror of the sky, because when it's not underwater,
17:29it turns into a giant reflection of the sky.
17:32An awesome spot for cool instapix.
17:35Besides being a sweet travel spot, it's also home to a bunch of marine life,
17:39like sea and baby clams that live all over the sandy shores.
17:45That's it for today.
17:46So, hey, if you pacified your curiosity,
17:49then give the video a like and share it with your friends.
17:51Or if you want more, just click on these videos and stay on the bright side.
17:55So, let's go ahead.
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