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In February 2023, a strange phenomenon occurred in India. Several metal balls, some as big as footballs, fell from the sky and landed in different locations across the country. No one knew where they came from, what they were made of, or why they were there. In this video, we will investigate the mystery of the space balls, and try to find out how and why they landed in India. You will be amazed by what we will discover.
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0:01 Metal balls poured down in India
08:29 A drowned city in India
16:41 Cosmic lake
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:01 Metal balls poured down in India
08:29 A drowned city in India
16:41 Cosmic lake
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00:00It's raining cats and dogs, literally.
00:03Things falling down from the sky can be pretty unexpected, so here are some examples.
00:09Residents of Texarkana, Texas once had light rain and fish shower.
00:14No need to go fishing out in the sea, the fish literally falls down on your head.
00:19In fact, animal rains are not uncommon.
00:22Water spouts or updrafts occurring in different corners of the earth
00:26sometimes carry small creatures up with them.
00:28Those could be crabs, frogs, or indeed, fish.
00:33A water spout is generally a whirlwind that picks up water
00:37and grows in size until it connects the surface of the water and the clouds.
00:41Lightweight critters living close to the water surface
00:44often get caught in the vortex and carried up and away.
00:48Thunderstorm clouds are constant companions of water spouts too.
00:52When the storm reaches a landmass, it starts slowing down,
00:56having nowhere to take the new energy from.
00:57It slowly subsides, the atmospheric pressure drops,
01:01and the thunderclouds release the water in them,
01:04along with the unfortunate small animals and fish.
01:08Sometimes it's just a few frogs frozen from the cold up above,
01:12but at other times it could be hundreds or thousands of creatures raining down upon the land.
01:19A much more unusual rain once happened in Oakville, Washington,
01:23and it's still waiting for someone to explain it.
01:26The rain clouds looked perfectly normal, but the rain they released was anything but.
01:32Translucent jelly-like blobs fell on the town,
01:35covering a total area of about 20 square miles.
01:38Each of them wasn't larger than a grain of rice.
01:41Researchers who studied these raindrops claimed that the gooey blobs contained human white blood cells.
01:47Some believe they might have been evaporated jellyfish, resulting in rain,
01:51or waste from a commercial airplane.
01:56Now this kind of rain is what I'd like to see someday.
01:59A money shower.
02:00One such event occurred in a small town in Germany.
02:04A woman was driving when she suddenly saw banknotes swirling down from the sky,
02:08so she hit the brakes.
02:10She went out of her car and later said she managed to collect quite a large amount of money.
02:14After which, as any responsible citizen should,
02:18she turned it over to the police.
02:20Strangely, when the officers came back to the scene with the woman,
02:23they couldn't find any more cash,
02:25although she claimed she hadn't been able to collect everything.
02:28There's still no explanation for the event,
02:30but certainly, no water spout could have caused that.
02:35A pretty unpleasant kind of rain happened back in 1876 in Olympia Springs, Kentucky.
02:41It was a very local kind, too.
02:43Mrs. Crouch said that she had been making soap outside her home
02:47when pieces of raw meat.
02:49Suddenly started falling down from the sky around her.
02:52Some of those chunks were pretty massive,
02:54reaching over three inches in diameter.
02:57Local newspapers reported that two people who decided to remain unknown
03:01tasted the meat and concluded it was mutton or venison.
03:06Months later, scientists decided to find out the truth behind the strange event.
03:10It became a matter of heated debate
03:12until one of the researchers came up with the most reasonable conclusion.
03:16The meat rain must have been caused by vultures flying over the town at the time.
03:21These birds sometimes regurgitate food right in the middle of their flight as a defense mechanism,
03:26or to make their bodies lighter to fly faster.
03:29And that must have been what happened right over Mrs. Crouch's house, unfortunately.
03:36Something totally inedible, but no less sinister,
03:39rained down on several villages in India in the middle of May of 2022.
03:44Huge black and silver metal balls started dropping from the sky,
03:49the first one weighing over 15 pounds.
03:51Astounded residents watched in shock as it hammered the ground,
03:55scattering pieces of itself across the nearby fields.
03:59Similar balls later fell in the other two neighboring villages.
04:03Luckily, no one was harmed during the strange metal rain.
04:06But the issue remained.
04:08We're on Earth, and it usually rains water here.
04:11The local authorities weren't sure what it was about,
04:13but astronomers soon voiced a theory that it could be debris from a space rocket.
04:18One that fits the description had launched in September of 2021,
04:23aiming to put a communications satellite into orbit.
04:26Upon its re-entry into the atmosphere, it might have been damaged,
04:30causing several chunks of it to detach and fall down on the ground in India.
04:37Sometimes it rains birds, too.
04:40One such event occurred in Arkansas in 2010.
04:43Weather conditions might cause things like that to happen.
04:46But there are simpler reasons, too.
04:48Loud noise and confusion, or even collisions with aircraft.
04:52In the case of Arkansas, it was the noise and flashing lights from the New Year's Eve fireworks.
04:58The show startled thousands of birds and made them start into the air.
05:02They were panicking and disoriented, so they collided with buildings, cars, and trees.
05:08Many of them eventually fell to the ground,
05:11making lots of people believe it was actually raining birds.
05:16Now, if anything could startle me out in the sky,
05:19it's a rain of spiders.
05:21And if you wonder whether it's a real thing, well, yes, it is.
05:25In Australia, spider rains actually happen quite often.
05:29They even have a name for this, ballooning.
05:32It goes like this.
05:34Spiders that can balloon climb up trees and tall bushes,
05:38trying to reach the highest point available in the area.
05:40When they've climbed up to the very top,
05:42they spin their web in such a way that it allows them to be carried by the wind.
05:47And there it goes.
05:49Clutching the strands of the web with its tiny little feet,
05:51the brave spider lifts off into the air and flies to whatever awaits it out there.
05:58Normally, ballooning goes unnoticed by us humans because spiders don't travel in large groups.
06:03You might have a shocking experience when a spider suddenly lands on your face out of nowhere.
06:08But otherwise, it's a rare occasion to meet more than two ballooners at once.
06:13Still, when the weather gets particularly bad, with lots of rain or wind,
06:18thousands or even millions of spiders might decide it's time to move to somewhere friendlier
06:23and take to the sky all at once.
06:26That's when spider rains occur.
06:28Those who witnessed the most recent ones back in 2012 and 2015 say it looks like a snowfall.
06:36Spiders slowly drifting down on their web parachutes that settle on the ground and turn it white.
06:43Remember water spouts?
06:44Well, those things can lift not only fish and frogs into the sky
06:48and make a spectacular show of them falling back on the ground.
06:51Golf balls sometimes become their cargo too.
06:54And I'm not speaking of golf ball-sized hail, but actual balls.
06:59The town of Punta Gorda in Florida witnessed a rain of golf balls in 1969.
07:06Newspapers reported dozens upon dozens of those things pummeling the ground and buildings for a short while.
07:12Since it's a coastal town with lots of golf courses, it wasn't hard to explain the event.
07:17A water spout must have formed near the shore, traveled to some course,
07:21grabbed a few dozen golf balls, and then released them over the town.
07:27Rain can be pretty refreshing, as long as it's not mud rain.
07:31On April 12, 1902, the town of Easton, Philadelphia, experienced an unusual shower.
07:38It made all those unfortunate enough to go outside take an actual shower and wash their clothes to boot.
07:45The raindrops looked dirty to the eye, and they were.
07:49People, buildings, and streets looked really wanting to take a good bath after it stopped pouring.
07:54The witnesses reported a considerable amount of dust in the air before the rain started, which probably explains the event.
08:03In 2011, a town in Scotland saw another weird rain variety.
08:08It was showered with worms.
08:10The rain didn't cover a large area.
08:13It seems only some local academy students were unlucky enough to get invertebrates falling on their heads while playing soccer.
08:20There was a significant change in the weather at the time, so scientists believe it might have resulted from some
08:27meteorological anomaly.
08:29It was April 10, 1912.
08:32Richard had just departed from Southampton, England, aboard the most famous ship of the time, dubbed the Unsinkable.
08:39Since he had just witnessed a near collision with the SS city of New York,
08:43he decided to write to his wife and report the unfortunate and frightening event.
08:48My dearest Sal, he wrote, we got away yesterday after a lot of trouble.
08:54Little did he know that a mere four days later, both his pen and the ship he was on would
08:59be lost forever at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.
09:03Was this some sort of bad omen?
09:05Did Richard actually foresee what was about to happen to the ship he was on?
09:10In case you haven't figured it out by now, Mr. Richard Geddes was aboard the Titanic on the day that
09:16he wrote the letter to his wife.
09:18On April 14, 1912, the ship seemed to have been lost forever.
09:22Along with it, so many secrets and treasures have settled at the bottom of the ocean.
09:27It took until 1985 for the Titanic's wreck to be finally rediscovered using state-of-the-art sonar technology.
09:35Ever since then, they've managed to recover thousands of items from the Titanic, and many of them went on display
09:41or auction.
09:42Things like jewelry, a life jacket, a menu from the ship's restaurant, or even a sample square of carpet from
09:49the first-class stateroom have all captivated the public's attention, just like the many stories of the people on board.
09:56Scientists have even tried to come up with strategies to get the Titanic back up altogether to properly study it
10:02and stop it from getting more and more damaged at the bottom of the ocean.
10:06Some have suggested filling the wreck with ping-pong balls to make it float, while others even considered injecting it
10:12with 180,000 tons of Vaseline.
10:15Another idea was to use 450,000 tons of liquid nitrogen to trap it in an iceberg that would float
10:22to the surface.
10:23But they eventually had to let go of all these potential strategies, since the Titanic is way too fragile to
10:29ever be recovered.
10:31The Titanic may be one of the most interesting ships lying at the bottom of the ocean, at least in
10:36popular culture, but deep-sea divers have a lot of other stories to share.
10:43Planes also sometimes find their way to the bottom of the ocean.
10:46Deep-sea divers in Oahu, Hawaii, came across the wreckage of an F4U Corsair plane.
10:53It seems to have crashed into the ocean in 1946, as it didn't have sufficient fuel.
11:00If you can dive deep enough, you might even stumble upon statues and lost artifacts, like those found in the
11:06world's only underwater archaeological park, off the coast of Naples, Italy.
11:11It features the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Baia.
11:14The underwater statues found here are breathtaking, to say the least.
11:20In an ironic twist of events, some of the equipment we intended to use to get us to the moon
11:25was lost at the bottom of the sea for a very long time.
11:29But how did that happen?
11:31Beginning from the late 1960s and ending in the early 70s, many Apollo rockets were launched to orbit the Earth
11:38and the moon.
11:38When reaching altitudes of about 38 miles, the first portion of the spacecraft, including the engines, needed to separate.
11:46People thought these components got destroyed or lost forever.
11:50But were they really?
11:51In 2012, a team of specialists discovered a bunch of rocket engines 14,000 feet off the coast of Florida.
11:58They have since gone through a two-year renovation plan and are now on display at Seattle's Museum of Flight.
12:06Can you imagine stumbling upon a whole city underwater?
12:10Back in 2001, a lost city was discovered in the Gulf of Cambay, off the coast of India.
12:16Some archaeologists believe it to be the oldest city in history.
12:20By comparison, it's almost the size of Manhattan and features massive walls and even plazas.
12:25They stumbled upon pieces of sculpture, artwork, and even what looked like ancient wooden furniture,
12:32believed to date back up to 9,500 years ago and 5,000 years older than any city previously discovered.
12:41Okay, how about an underwater river?
12:44I can't even imagine what that would look like, but some deep divers claim to have seen it, south of
12:49Tulum, Mexico.
12:50Is that even possible?
12:52Well, not really, since the Cenote Angelita Cave is not a true river, but a very special type of optical
12:59illusion.
13:00It's formed by a halocline, meaning a cloud of hydrogen sulfide at the bottom of this underwater cave.
13:07Turns out, you can actually swim right through this cloud, which makes you feel like you're swimming through a flowing
13:13body of water.
13:16Not all things discovered underwater are inanimate objects.
13:20Some of them are actually quite scary sea creatures.
13:23A jellyfish might not be on your list of things to look out for if you can avoid the stings.
13:29But this giant one, also known as a lion's mane jellyfish, is the largest known species of its kind.
13:35In all fairness, you'll only uncover it if you happen to dive into the waters of the Arctic, Northern Atlantic,
13:42and Northern Pacific Oceans.
13:44You surely won't miss it, since it stretches across 120 feet from the top to the bottom of its tentacles.
13:52When it comes to deep-sea diving, a lot of people are looking to discover some lost treasure.
13:57One diver was lucky enough to have hit the literal jackpot when he came upon nearly $1 million worth of
14:04treasure on the bottom of the seabed.
14:06That was back in 2015, when this lucky diver was swimming just off the coast of Florida.
14:12What did he find, you might ask?
14:13Well, about 51 gold coins, 40 feet of gold chain, and a rare single coin that was tailored for the
14:20king of Spain, Philip V.
14:24Speaking of people looking for lost treasures, divers also sometimes found pirate ships.
14:29They discovered one of these pirate shipwrecks in 2015 off the coast of Colombia.
14:34It dates back to the 18th century.
14:37The value of this forgotten ship was estimated to be between $4 billion and $17 billion.
14:43As it contained treasures, precious stones, gold, and countless other really valuable items.
14:49By comparison, a whole island in the Bahamas is up for grabs at $75 million.
14:56A computer is the last thing you'd ever expect to discover underwater, right?
15:01And this was no regular computer, but an ancient one.
15:05And yet, someone stumbled upon it between 1900 and 1901 on the spot of a shipwreck located off one Greek
15:12island.
15:13Researchers believe this weird stone contraption to be the earliest form of a computer.
15:18It was designed to serve many purposes, such as predicting astronomical positions and eclipses on the calendar.
15:25Since humanity lost most of the technology used back then, it was wonderful to rediscover it so many years later.
15:32It let us piece together many of the ancient Greeks' accomplishments.
15:35The computer is now at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, should you ever want to check it out in
15:41person.
15:43This has to be one of the most mysterious places on Earth.
15:47It's called the Mariana Trench, and it's the deepest part of the Earth's oceans.
15:51We really don't know how deep it is, since it's so difficult to measure.
15:55But it's somewhere around 7 miles deep, and 5 times longer than the Grand Canyon.
16:00They first studied this massive underwater hole back in 1875, using a weighted rope.
16:06Back in 2012, a Canadian film director named James Cameron reached the bottom of the trench in the submersible vessel
16:14Deep Sea Challenger.
16:15Some of the most bizarre creatures on the planet call this place their home, including the Dumbo octopus, the sea
16:22cucumber, and the goblin shark.
16:24The Mariana Trench took its name after the nearby Mariana Islands, which are named Las Marianas, in honor of the
16:31Spanish queen, Mariana of Austria.
16:36A strange lake appeared in India 52,000 years ago.
16:40It was formed here literally out of nowhere.
16:43I recall it was a Wednesday.
16:45Anyway, for tens of thousands of years, people came up with various scary stories about the lake.
16:51Some locals believe this place was cursed.
16:53Others think that the lake's bottom hides the gateway to the underworld.
16:57But those are all legends.
17:00The real reason for the appearance of this lonar lake is even more surprising.
17:05At first, scientists were sure that the lake was an ancient crater of a long, extinct volcano.
17:11It's in a balsam field made of 65-million-year-old volcanic rock.
17:16But then, geologists conducted a detailed analysis of the soil and water, and found that Lonar Lake had a space
17:24origin.
17:25Geologists found a unique glass inside the lake that forms only with a strong impact and energy release.
17:3252,000 years ago, a huge meteorite weighing 2 million tons fell into this place.
17:39It was almost six times heavier than the Empire State Building.
17:43The striking power was so high that the volcanic rock melted and turned into glass.
17:48Perhaps the bottom of this lake still contains particles of this giant meteorite that flew to us from the distant
17:55space depths.
17:56Okay, we have a lake created by a space object more than 50,000 years ago.
18:01But even this is not the strangest thing about it.
18:04In 2020, the locals noticed that Lonar Lake had turned pink.
18:09In just a few days, the salt water mysteriously changed its color.
18:14Biologists and geologists immediately took water samples to the Scientific Research Center.
18:19The detailed analysis showed that the water contained an increased level of unique microbes.
18:25They accumulate on the surface and emit some pink pigment.
18:29Soon, these microbes settled to the bottom, and the lake became transparent again.
18:34Also, rains helped the water go back to its usual appearance.
18:38These microbes color the lake and make the pink plumage of flamingos even brighter.
18:43The birds get food from the Lonar Lake and absorb these pink bacteria.
18:47Now, Lonar Lake is a popular place among tourists.
18:51But this is not the only thing that may surprise you in India.
18:55Our next stop is a small village with about 2,600 people located in a hot rainforest.
19:01The locals are very hospitable.
19:03They welcome not only tourists, but also one of the most venomous reptiles on the planet.
19:09King cobras are crawling in almost every house in this village.
19:13Locals are happy to see them as if they were their pets.
19:17People share water and food with these animals.
19:20They even give the reptiles a special corner where they can relax from the scorching sun.
19:25Aww.
19:26Cobras crawl in houses, schools, and even on the streets.
19:29Humans and reptiles are used to each other and feel safe.
19:33There has never been a case of a cobra attack in the village.
19:37It's the only place in the world where these venomous reptiles live in such harmony with people.
19:43Now, imagine a town that consists of many little united villages.
19:48The residents are all engaged in agriculture.
19:51They know how to extract water from ground rocks, and they bargain well.
19:55The town has been thriving for several centuries, and people live happily in it.
20:00Then, one day, everything changes.
20:03All the residents quickly pack up their stuff and run away from their homes.
20:07But overnight, the town becomes abandoned.
20:10It is a real story that happened in the state of Rajasthan in 1825.
20:15And still, no one knows why the people disappeared from there.
20:20The most popular version says that the cruel local ruler collected large taxes from the locals.
20:25Then, he fell in love with the daughter of the chief of this town
20:29and threatened that he would collect extra taxes if the girl refused to be his wife.
20:35Citizens decided to support the woman and her father and left their homes in one day.
20:40This town is still empty, but the locals from the nearest cities are afraid to approach.
20:46Our next stop is the state of Maharashtra.
20:49There's a small village there with very positive people.
20:52They go to stores, cafes, schools, and banks.
20:56Everything here seems quite ordinary, and you wouldn't notice what's so special about this place.
21:02But just wait for the night to come.
21:05People go to sleep, and no one locks their houses.
21:09There are no locks at all in this village.
21:11The door of any building is always open here.
21:14The owners leave the shops, cafes, and libraries open.
21:18When locals go to work, they don't lock up their homes either.
21:21They don't hide money and jewelry.
21:23The reason for this is the complete absence of thefts.
21:27The villagers are sure that anyone can get into serious trouble for stealing.
21:31According to a legend, about 300 years ago, after prolonged rains and floods,
21:37a large black stone slab appeared in the center of the village.
21:41This slab symbolized an Indian mythical creature that washed over the locals.
21:45At some point, people stopped locking their houses because they knew that no one would dare to commit theft in
21:52that creature's face.
21:54In 2015, a police station was opened here, but almost no one has reported an incident since then.
22:00The building doesn't even have doors because the police don't keep anyone there.
22:05Another fantastic place in India is a village in the state of Assam.
22:10Hundreds of locals prepare here for an unusual celebration every now and then.
22:15They arrange a magnificent wedding ceremony.
22:18They set the table, dress up in beautiful costumes, and bring gifts.
22:22And all this for the newlyweds.
22:25But instead of people, frogs get married here.
22:28Locals hold weddings for wild frogs to summon rain.
22:32The incredible thing is that the ceremony looks just like a real wedding.
22:37The fun can last all day until late at night.
22:41Now, there's one dangerous and inaccessible island in India.
22:45You can find it in the Bay of Bengal.
22:47It's called the North Sentinel.
22:49It's a small piece of land that looks like a tropical paradise.
22:53But you won't be able to get there.
22:55Since 1956, nobody can travel to this place.
22:59The Coast Guard is always sailing around and patrolling the area.
23:02The reason for this is the local Centennialese tribe.
23:06This tribe lives isolated from the whole world.
23:09They don't know about modern technologies, the internet, or television.
23:13For centuries, the Centennialese have lived on their own, away from civilization.
23:18And the people from India want to keep it that way.
23:21Anyone who approaches their island is welcomed by the tribe with a flurry of spears and arrows.
23:28And it doesn't matter if you're coming by boat or helicopter.
23:31Another reason why you can't get on the island is the Centennialese immune system.
23:36The Coast Guard is trying to protect the local tribe from possible diseases and infections that outsiders can bring with
23:43them.
23:43The locals have no immunity from the flu or even a simple cold.
23:47They don't know what that is.
23:49Also, there are coral reefs and limestone around the island, which significantly complicates the passage of large ships.
23:56Despite all the prohibitions, many people tried to get to the island.
24:01In 1880, one officer accidentally discovered this island.
24:05He went ashore and found a noble soil ideal for growing coconut palms.
24:10The officer also noticed several huts on the island, but didn't dare meet the locals.
24:16Explorers and travelers presented the islanders with fish as a gift many times.
24:21The locals accepted it, asked for more, but still didn't let them approach their houses.
24:26It was also challenging to make friends with the tribe because they communicate in one of the most difficult languages
24:32to learn in the world.
24:34Scientists and linguists have been studying this language for decades.
24:37At the end of the 20th century, outsiders made some progress in building a connection with the tribe.
24:43In 1991, a team of anthropologists invited the islanders aboard a large ship.
24:49They gave bags of coconuts to tribe members.
24:52This may be where the phrase, left holding the bag, came from.
24:56Or not.
24:57Otherwise, let's just leave these folks alone, shall we?
25:00We'll see you next time.
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