00:00You know, have you ever just looked out at the beautiful rolling surface of the ocean
00:04and wondered, what's actually hiding down there?
00:07Because underneath those crashing waves and the sparkling sunlight,
00:11we're dealing with a hostile, literal alien frontier.
00:14An abyss that literally swallows history whole
00:17and then keeps it perfectly, terrifyingly preserved in the freezing, crushing dark.
00:22So what really lies in the dark?
00:24It's a question that's haunted sailors and explorers for absolute centuries.
00:28Throughout this explainer, we're going to peel back the crushing weight of the water
00:32to look at the macabre, kind of magical wonders waiting underneath the sea.
00:36We are talking about secrets, tragedies, and impossibilities
00:40that honestly were never truly meant to be seen by human eyes again.
00:44Just beneath the surface.
00:46We love to comfort ourselves by thinking the really terrifying stuff is thousands of miles out, right?
00:51Totally removed from our safe, everyday lives.
00:54But the truly unsettling truth?
00:57Some of the absolute most chilling discoveries are resting, well, right beneath the surface.
01:04Places where the living and the dead are separated by just a breath of water.
01:08Take the town of Tobermory, up on Ontario, Canada.
01:11Picture this.
01:12Families are splashing around, having a great beach day.
01:15But just 15 feet, literally 15 feet below the water's surface,
01:19there are massive, century-old shipwrecks, like the Minch and the Niwago, resting right under the swimmer's toes.
01:26It's this eerie, rotting graveyard hanging out practically in the shallows.
01:30You can even see the whole shebang right from the air.
01:33The drowning of empires.
01:34Because the ocean doesn't just snatch up ships, it drowns whole empires.
01:38Like, 1400 years ago, the tragic forces of a massive earthquake and tsunami ripped Cleopatra's fabled palace right off the
01:46shores of Alexandria, Egypt, plunging it into the depths.
01:49Fast forward to 1959, and you've got the Lion City, Xicheng, in China.
01:54But this one was intentionally flooded to make room for a dam.
01:57Two spectacular civilizations, completely submerged and shockingly intact, trapped forever under the waves.
02:0460,000.
02:06That's 60,000 tons.
02:08That is the staggering weight of this enormous, mysterious, cone-shaped stone structure they found sitting at the bottom of
02:15the Sea of Galilee.
02:16Scientists are just completely baffled by this thing.
02:19It's estimated to be up to 12,000 years old, obviously built by a super well-organized society.
02:25But, get this, nobody has any clue what it was made for.
02:28It just sits there, silent and heavy, defying all explanation.
02:32Relics out of place.
02:34Because our waters aren't just tombs, you know?
02:36They act as vaults, holding relics that are completely out of place.
02:40We're talking about impossible artifacts that utterly defy time, logic, and the accepted timeline of human innovation.
02:49An impossible device.
02:51Imagine stumbling on a highly complex computer thousands of years before computers were even a concept.
02:56Well, that's exactly what a group of fishermen found off the Greek island of Antikythera.
03:01Excavated back in 1902 from a shipwreck, this rusted-over gear system dates all the way back to somewhere between
03:08270 BC.
03:09The Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the world's oldest computer, sitting forgotten in the mud for centuries before such technology
03:17should have even been conceived.
03:18No way, right?
03:19The phantom locomotives.
03:22Then, there are the phantoms.
03:23In 1985, sitting under 90 feet of water right off the coast of New Jersey, divers found two massive 1850s
03:31steam locomotives, eerily preserved under a thick layer of rust.
03:35But here's the truly suspenseful part.
03:38There is absolutely no record of them being built.
03:41And no record of them being lost, either.
03:44They are literal ghost trains, believed to have been swept off a ship in a storm, just sitting completely passenger
03:49-free at the bottom of the Atlantic.
03:5214,000.
03:53To really wrap your head around the sheer scale of the abyss, think about the crushing depths of 14,000
03:58feet.
03:59Way down in that staggering, lightless depth, the ocean literally holds onto pieces of the sky.
04:04In 2013, an expedition actually recovered parts of the Apollo Moon Mission booster rocket engines.
04:10Yeah, the very same engines responsible for sending Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969, resting miles
04:16beneath the surface in the freezing dark.
04:18One billion dollars.
04:20The abyss also guards unimaginable wealth.
04:23That is the estimated value of a massive gold coin fortune that went straight down with the luxury liner RMS
04:29Republic when it collided with another ship in 1909, 50 miles off the coast of Massachusetts.
04:35And despite decades of desperate documented searches, nothing.
04:38That staggering fortune remains completely unreachable, swallowed by the sea and hidden in the dark to this day.
04:44The descent into madness.
04:47Because lost gold, space debris, and ghost trains, that's really just the beginning of our journey.
04:53Now, we begin the true descent into madness.
04:56We're entering the territory where the ocean becomes a cold, unfeeling monument to the truly macabre and the utterly unexplained.
05:07The terrifying scale of these underwater graveyards literally spans the globe.
05:12In Lake Michigan alone, divers have found prehistoric stones with 10,000-year-old Ice Age carvings, kind of like
05:17a second Stonehenge.
05:18And an 1,800-pound cracked marble crucifix dropped down there in 1962 as a memorial.
05:24Now, jump over to the South Pacific.
05:26In 1944, a surprise attack called Operation Hailstone sank hundreds of military battleships, aircraft, and submarines off the Caroline Islands.
05:33Today, that wreckage is Truck Lagoon, one of the most bizarre and sprawling underwater tombs on the planet, hiding thousands
05:40of lost souls.
05:41The mystery of Rupkund Lake.
05:44Think about how remote this next horror truly is.
05:47Rupkund Lake is way up at the freezing, high-altitude base of the Himalayas in India.
05:53Discovered in 1942 by a reserve ranger, this lake just holds hundreds of ancient human skeletons, believed to be around
06:001,200 years old.
06:01The location is entirely removed from any human settlement.
06:05So, what happened?
06:06Were they the remains of an army?
06:08Religious zealots on a mass suicide mission?
06:10Victims of a sudden, violent natural disaster?
06:13The truth remains completely trapped at the bottom of the water.
06:16The Baltic Sea Anomaly.
06:19And then we have discoveries that might not even be of this Earth.
06:23In 2014, Swedish divers found this massive, disk-like object sitting on the floor of the Baltic Sea.
06:29Opinions are fiercely divided on this one.
06:32Many believe this UFO-shaped anomaly is exactly that, a crashed extraterrestrial ship from outer space.
06:39Conversely, skeptics and scientists maintain it's simply a natural rock of unknown origin, or possibly a meteor.
06:46We aren't taking sides on what it actually is, but either way, stumbling upon a massive saucer in the murky
06:51depths is deeply unsettling.
06:53A macabre, makeshift underwater graveyard.
06:57All of these discoveries piece together a terrifying reality about the waters that cover our planet.
07:02The deep often serves as exactly that, a macabre, makeshift underwater graveyard.
07:08That visceral quote perfectly encapsulates the essence of what we've explored in this explainer today.
07:13An environment that doesn't just hide human history, but absolutely buries it in darkness.
07:18Which brings us to a final, really chilling thought.
07:21We have only mapped a tiny fraction of the ocean floor.
07:25I mean, the ghost ships, the drowned cities, the impossible computers, the hundreds of skeletons.
07:31These are just the things we happen to stumble upon.
07:34If this is what we've found, what is still down there, watching from the abyss?
07:38It seems that we're low in the Santi Famos...
07:39...isch.
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