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Brace yourself, because some discoveries were never meant to be found... Join us as we count down the most unsettling finds ever made in the world's most terrifying locations! From frozen corpses in the Death Zone to a radioactive mass that kills on sight, these chilling discoveries prove that reality is far scarier than fiction. Would you have the nerve to stumble upon any of these?
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00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at 10 unsettling discoveries that were found in the world's creepiest places.
00:13Everyone is preparing themselves for their first view of John Hartnell's face.
00:19Green Boots, Mount Everest.
00:21Once we get above here, above the South Col, our bodies will be literally dying, and I mean literally dying.
00:27It's not called the Death Zone for nothing, guys.
00:30The world's highest peak has an area called the Death Zone, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.
00:35While Mount Everest is the ultimate climbing challenge for mountaineers, the Northeast Ridge held a chilling landmark for nearly 20
00:42years.
00:43Climbers pushing for the summit were forced to look at the frozen body of a fallen alpinist known simply as
00:49Green Boots.
00:50They've been hit by a storm, Dan. It's really bad.
00:55Where is he?
00:56Believed to be a man named Sivang Paljor, his bright neon footwear protruded from a small cave, serving as a
01:03macabre waypoint.
01:04This was more than just a corpse. It was a permanent warning sign.
01:07Every passerby had to confront the harsh reality that there is no rescue in the Death Zone,
01:12and you might just become the next marker on the map for future climbers.
01:16It's gonna take...
01:19It's gonna take all we got just to get ourselves down.
01:25Oh, damn it.
01:27The camping gear, Okigahara Forest, Japan.
02:00My life is the most important thing from my parents.
02:00campsites, finding tents and sleeping bags that have been rotting in the damp soil for years.
02:11Even more disturbing are the trails of plastic tape tied to trees, breadcrumbs left by indecisive
02:18souls hoping to find their way back out should they change their mind. So when you're on an
02:23afternoon hike and stumble across an abandoned tent, there's a strong possibility that its
02:27owner is somewhere out there in the woods and never coming back.
02:36The Frozen Sailors, Beachy Island, Canadian Arctic.
02:40It had long been known that there were three graves on Beachy Island from sailors who died
02:44early in the expedition. In 1984, Beatty and his team traveled to Beachy to investigate
02:51one of the graves, that of petty officer John Tarrington of the HMS Terror.
02:56In 1845, the Franklin Expedition vanished while searching for the Northwest Passage,
03:02leaving no survivors. Nearly 140 years later, anthropologists located three graves on the
03:08desolate Beachy Island deep in the Canadian Arctic. Creepy enough, but when they exhumed the bodies
03:14to determine the cause of death, they were met with an even scarier sight.
03:17The findings were staggering. John Tarrington's body was almost perfectly preserved.
03:23The permafrost had perfectly preserved the dead sailors, particularly 20-year-old John
03:28Tarrington. He wasn't a skeleton. He was a fully intact frozen corpse with wide open milky eyes,
03:35a contorted face, and blue skin. Looking mostly as he did the day he died in 1846. It's a haunting
03:42physical connection to a doomed voyage, where men slowly succumbed to lead poisoning and cold
03:47in the middle of nowhere. It was likely the promise of double pay drew recruits to the expedition,
03:53that and the chance to be a part of the most lauded voyage of the time.
03:56The wreck of the Titanic, Atlantic Ocean.
03:59I wasn't expecting to be hit by it. See, I went in there, you know, totally under control,
04:04so to speak. And I was blown away. It was a very moving experience that I did not expect to
04:12have.
04:13Bit of an odd one here, but there's no denying that the wreck of the Titanic is an unbelievably
04:17eerie sight. The depths of the Atlantic Ocean are terrifying. An endless and silent pitch-black
04:23void, 12,500 feet below the world. Our brains simply cannot comprehend it. We weren't supposed
04:29to see down there, but a really famous ship sank in the ocean back in 1912, and we wanted to
04:35find it.
04:36Fast forward to 1985, when the wreck was finally located.
04:39The team watches anxiously for potential evidence of the elusive Titanic wreck site. And finally,
04:46the wait is over. Towering above the seafloor and silently sitting in the middle of nothing,
04:52its rotting metal hosts a number of ghosts in the form of abandoned shoes and dolls.
04:57The ship itself is creepy enough, but these reminders of the lost inhabitants take the terror
05:02to the next level. And all that's left of human signature are their shoes. And all around the
05:09Titanic are pairs of shoes. Mother's shoes next to daughter's shoes, men's shoes, crew members.
05:18These are the tombstones. The vampire of Venice, Lazzaretto Nuovo, Italy.
05:35Venice may be a city of romance, but the island of Lazzaretto Nuovo hides a dark past as a quarantine
05:42station during the plague. During the excavation of a mass grave, archaeologists unearthed a skull
05:48that validated a medieval nightmare. The remains belonged to a woman who had had a brick
05:54violently forced between her jaws. This was a famous rite known for burying vampires. At the time,
06:00survivors believed that so-called shroud eaters were spreading the Black Death from the grave.
06:14So to stop the corpse from feeding, grave diggers jammed a stone block into her mouth.
06:19This brutal artifact serves as physical proof of the mass hysteria that gripped the population,
06:25showing they were terrified enough to desecrate the dead, to stop a monster they believed was real.
06:30And lo, the maiden fair did offer up her love unto the beast, and with him lay in close embrace
06:38until
06:39the first caught crow. Her willing sacrifice thus broke the curse and freed them from the plague of Nosferatu.
06:48The Crystal Maiden, Oktun Tunichil Muknal, Belize.
06:52Archaeologists found a lot of human sacrificial remains inside of the cave. The most notable of the remains
06:58is that of the Crystal Maiden. She's been there so long that her bones have been crystallized and fossilized
07:04into the cave grounds. Belize's ATM cave is considered a portal to the Maya underworld Xibalba,
07:11but one chamber contains a crime scene frozen in time. Deep inside, explorers found the skeleton of a teenage girl
07:18known as the Crystal Maiden. But she wasn't just buried here. Judging by the crushed vertebrae,
07:24she was actually a human sacrifice, killed to appease the rain god Chok.
07:28The Crystal Maiden is one of the last offerings to the cave. Very, very strange energies when you go into
07:35that chamber.
07:36The environment of the cave has transformed her remains, with its humid minerals calcifying her bones
07:42and giving the skeleton a glittering, crystal-like appearance. She is also literally fused to the floor,
07:48because of course she is. It's a beautiful yet horrifying sight, preserving the exact moment of a young
07:53girl's terrified final breaths, in the absolute darkness of the underworld.
07:58If you look down straight to where my light is, you can see where she is.
08:01Oh, yeah!
08:01Oh, wow, okay.
08:05The Nuclear Shadows, Hiroshima, Japan
08:14While Pavelia's alleged ash soil is a debated statistic, the human shadows of Hiroshima
08:20are a verified record of instantaneous death. Following the detonation of the atomic bomb in 1945,
08:27the intense thermal radiation bleached the concrete and stone of the city, except for where people were
08:33standing. The bodies of victims absorbed the heat, shielding the surface behind them and leaving
08:38shadow-like imprints on the ground. Touring the city's desolated ground zero, people were forced to
08:44reckon with the negative spaces where human beings were incinerated. Known as flash burns, these shadows,
08:50on the likes of bank steps and bridges, serve as the ultimate ghostly echo of the exact moment
08:55that thousands of lives ended.
09:02The Monster Claw, Mount Owen, New Zealand
09:05And he slashes at you with this…
09:08six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe.
09:12Back in 1986, an expedition into the cave systems of Mount Owen stumbled upon something that looked
09:19like a prop from a monster movie. Resting on the cave floor was a massive, terrifying claw with scaly
09:25skin, and some flesh was still attached. It looked fresh enough to have died recently, sparking fears
09:31of some unknown predator lurking in the dark. Analysis revealed it was actually the foot of an upland moa,
09:48a flightless bird that went extinct over 500 years ago. The cave's unique dry and cold conditions had
09:54mummified the limb so effectively that it seemed ready to grab you. It remains one of the most jarring
10:00examples of natural preservation, forcing explorers to look at a piece of prehistoric biology that just
10:06refused to decompose. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say. No, no. He slashes at you
10:14here, or here. Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines.
10:23Ignacia Aguilar, Museum of the Mummies, Mexico.
10:26Yes, 911? Hello, I'm buried. You have to help me,
10:29you have to help me, I can't breathe. Sir?
10:31I'm buried in a coffin, please help. Send someone to find me.
10:34The Museum of the Mummies in Guanajuato displays bodies naturally preserved by the region's dry
10:39climate. However, the exhumation of Ignacia Aguilar revealed a claustrophobic horror. When workers
10:45opened her coffin, they found her facing downward. Upon closer inspection, they realized that her forehead
10:51was scratched, her arms were bitten, and her face was frozen in a scream. This confirmed she had been
10:57buried alive. Suffering from catalepsy, she had been mistaken for dead, and woke up trapped underground.
11:03Her mummified corpse remains a permanent physical record of pure panic. It stands as one of the most
11:09visceral finds in history, capturing the agonizing final moments of a woman fighting a battle she could
11:15not win.
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11:40The Elephant's Foot
11:41Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
11:44First, it's going to burn through the biological shield here by Tuesday. And when it does,
11:50it's going to hit these tanks, bubbler pools, reservoirs…
11:54Reservoirs for the ECS. I understand your concern.
11:56You want creepy? How about an object that can kill you just by being in its presence? In the basement
12:02of
12:03Reactor 4 at Chernobyl, remote cameras identified a massive toxic mass dubbed the Elephant's Foot.
12:09This is corium, a lava-like mixture of melted nuclear fuel and concrete.
12:14The uranium will melt the sand, creating a kind of lava which will begin to melt down through the
12:20shield below. You've made lava.
12:25I anticipated this.
12:34The Elephant's Foot has been described as a modern Medusa, a monster in the basement that no human
12:40can safely approach or look at. It remains the most dangerous object on Earth, a silent, steaming mass
12:46of radioactivity that serves as a lethal monument to the world's worst nuclear catastrophe. It is the
12:52ultimate real-life horror.
12:54Above all, while on the roof, saw your debris over the rail. Do not look over the rail. Is that
12:59clear?
12:59What would you have done if you came across these on your own? Let us know in the comments below!
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