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What's the most mysterious place on Google Earth? Bermuda Triangle, some ghost city or a haunted island? How about mysterious craters in the woods? How do you identify craters? Why should you stay away from them? Trees won't grow near these objects and animals avoid them too. Let's find out, why!
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00:00Back in 2009, people in Ishikawa, Japan, saw a kind of rain no one's ever seen before.
00:07It was raining tadpoles.
00:08First reason is that the wind that day was so strong, it lifted and carried all those tadpoles away in
00:14no time.
00:14The second possible reason is that big birds, such as gulls, just dropped them while they were flying to their
00:20nests.
00:21Some scientists believe these creatures were hauled off the ground by a water spout and rained down later.
00:26By the way, that day, people found not only tadpoles, but also frogs and fish instead of puddles.
00:33And yep, it can be raining worms, too.
00:35Some people claim they've seen snake rains.
00:38Yay!
00:40It was a lovely spring in 1876 in Bath County, Kentucky.
00:45Mrs. Crouch was making soap in the yard of her house when she suddenly noticed it started raining meat.
00:50It wasn't ground meat. Those were large, 3 inches in diameter chunks of meat, falling right on her.
00:57Two volunteers were brave enough to try that grisly-looking meat of unknown origin, and they said it tasted like
01:03lamb or deer.
01:04Well, they were no foodies. It turned out to be beef.
01:07Such cases were registered in Europe, too.
01:09And the only logical explanation of meat showers is that buzzards flying over just drop meat pieces they save for
01:17lunch.
01:17With no luggage, their bodies are lighter and they can fly easier.
01:21Wow, I wish it rained donuts on me once.
01:24Rains aren't unusual for Oakville, Washington.
01:27But this one still doesn't have any solid explanation.
01:30Instead of common raindrops, people watched translucent jelly-like blobs falling down from the skies.
01:36These little things covered about 20 square miles.
01:39Those who got really close to that sort of rain said they felt bad the next day.
01:44Scientists studied those blobs and realized they contained human white blood cells.
01:48But other tests later showed it wasn't true.
01:51Some people think these might have been evaporated jellyfish, which resulted in rain,
01:56or it could simply be some waste from a commercial plane.
01:59Almost the same thing happened in 2012 in Dorset, UK.
02:03During a hailstorm, people found gelatin balls together with hailstones.
02:08Researchers collected these goopy balls and stored them in a fridge to study later.
02:13Turns out, it wasn't necessary, since the slimy blobs didn't melt at room temperature.
02:18No one is sure even now about where the balls came from.
02:21But the first idea was that those were eggs of some aquatic animal, carried by birds right up in the
02:27sky.
02:27Later tests proved that the jelly substance was a chemical that acts as a water log and is used in
02:33many commercial products,
02:34even cables to protect them from water.
02:37Australian spiders are notorious.
02:39And to frighten people, they even learn how to rain.
02:42Spider rains are a pretty common thing for Australia because of ballooning.
02:46They climb up trees, then spin strands of silk, and that's why the wind can carry them away.
02:52Usually, people don't notice it, but when it's wet, hundreds of spiders climb up to more desirable places.
02:58People say that when it rains or snows, it's possible to see spiders literally drift down on those whiffs as
03:05if they were balloons.
03:06If you ever travel to the Mekong Delta, you'll probably have a chance to see glowing balls rising up from
03:12the water and beelining straight into the air.
03:15The locals call these the Naga fireballs.
03:18Sizes may vary, so these reddish balls can be as tiny as a cherry and as large as a watermelon.
03:24During the night, you can see dozens and sometimes even thousands of fireballs.
03:28Scientists don't have any solid explanation why it happens, but it's probably flammable gas released by the marshy environment.
03:36Still, a local superstition claims it's all because of a giant serpent living in the Mekong.
03:42Tornadic water spout is a tornado that doesn't occur on land, but on water.
03:47The speed of the tornado can be really high.
03:49The water is collected and partially pulled up.
03:52It manages to pull fish and even turtles up into the air.
03:56Actually, raining fish can also be explained by this weather phenomenon.
04:00The same might happen on the snow, too, but it's really rare.
04:03There are only six pictures of snow spouts.
04:06Four of which were taken in Ontario.
04:08This weather phenomenon requires that the water is warm enough to produce fog, while the air temperature is really cold.
04:14Next to impossible.
04:17Lava is red.
04:18Sky is blue.
04:19I'm on bright side.
04:21And so are you.
04:22Okay, I made that up.
04:23But the part about the lava being red can change.
04:26That's true, especially if you see the lava flowing from Kauai-Jen volcano located in Indonesia.
04:32It has a typical red color during the day, but at night, it turns luminescent blue.
04:37No mystery behind it, just tons of sulfuric acid.
04:41This volcano also has the largest acidic crater lake in the world.
04:44The water there is so turquoise, you want to jump in immediately, but you probably already guessed that you should
04:50never, ever do that.
04:52The fire on that volcano is also blue, and it's the largest blue fire in the world, rising up to
04:5716 feet.
04:58In some places, water may look like glass.
05:01White salt ponds might look like windows or even portals to the world underneath.
05:06They have their look because of salt evaporation, and such lakes can be found in France and India.
05:11But the Cargill salt ponds in the San Francisco Bay Area look even crazier because of vibrant colors.
05:18The shades vary.
05:19It can be deep blue, grass green, orange, crimson, vermilion, and even magenta.
05:24The color difference is all about the different levels of salinity and tiny microorganisms living in those ponds.
05:31On the shore of the Baltic Sea in Kaliningrad District, Russia, there's an enigmatic national park called Dancing Forest.
05:38The pine trees are all crooked and twisted there.
05:41The forest didn't appear until the early 60s, when the pines were planted to make the dune sand in that
05:46area a bit more stable.
05:47It's probably the unstable sand that made those trees twist that way.
05:51Another reason why those trees are so crooked might be strong winds.
05:56Some people claim it has something to do with supernatural powers.
05:59They say this forest is a place where positive and negative energies meet.
06:04Locals believe if someone climbs through one of the rings in those trees, it'll add an extra year to this
06:09person's life.
06:11The throbbing hum in Taos, New Mexico, has driven locals crazy since the 1990s.
06:16Low-frequency hum doesn't let you sleep normally.
06:19Even though scientists tried so hard to find the source of the hum, they failed.
06:23They blamed it on mechanical devices and even animals.
06:27The West Seattle hum, for example, was related to toadfish.
06:31Different variations of hum were also heard in the UK, Australia, and in some areas of the United States.
06:37Luckily, only about 2% of the world's population can hear it.
06:41Not-to-lessen clouds, or simply night clouds, are so rare because, one, they only form in summer,
06:47and two, they can only be seen at latitudes between 50 and 70 degrees both north and south.
06:54To see those clouds, the sun should be already below the horizon, but the clouds still have to be in
06:59sunlight.
07:00It's possible for the highest clouds in the atmosphere, which are located about 50 miles up.
07:05We can't see them during the day because they're too faint.
07:08Fairy rings, also known as elf rings or pixie rings, are the enigmatic rings of mushrooms that appear in grasslands
07:15and forested areas.
07:17Scientists can explain why these fungi can form nearly perfect circles.
07:21But the superstition claims that fairy dances would burn the ground, causing mushrooms rapid growth.
07:27In fact, it's partially true.
07:28The mushrooms grow in places where a grass withered.
07:31The Amazon River, one of the longest on our planet, stretches for 4,000 miles, which is more than a
07:38drive from Vienna to New Delhi.
07:40But there's one river in South America that beats the Amazon River twice.
07:44First, it's wider.
07:45Second, nobody ever saw it.
07:49It's an Amazon underwater twin called the Hamza River, and it runs 2.5 miles underneath.
07:55Scientists found it 10 years ago, back in 2011.
07:59Don't blink, or you'll miss this rarest weather phenomenon.
08:03Red sprites are electrical discharges in the sky that look a bit like an aurora.
08:08It's super powerful, about 10 times stronger than any regular lightning, but it lasts just a couple of seconds.
08:13They were first photographed in 1989, and there are still very few photos and video recordings of this lightning.
08:20To make a video that can clearly show red sprites, it should be at about 7,000 frames per second.
08:26Well, I'm out.
08:28A group of underwater explorers stumbled upon a mysterious discovery in June 2011.
08:35It was a strange something resting deep under the freezing waters of the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea
08:41region.
08:42The Baltic Sea Anomaly, a weirdly shaped feature 210 feet long and 26 feet tall, was discovered 300 feet below
08:50the surface using sonar by OceanX.
08:53The team claimed that their electrical equipment stopped working when they got to within 650 feet of the mysterious object.
09:00Anything electric that was taken down just stopped working altogether over the site.
09:05Moving away from it let the electronics turn back on.
09:08It remains a mystery, but the unique shape leads to many claims that it could be part of a former
09:13sunken city like Atlantis,
09:15or even a mysterious object from outer space that crashed through the ice at some period.
09:20The scientists studied samples collected from around the site and determined that it could be a simple glacial deposit carved
09:28out from moving glaciers during one of the ice ages.
09:30The anomaly is just a piece that was left over, undisturbed, for thousands of years.
09:36It hasn't been explored enough yet for a true answer.
09:40Off the southern tip of Japan lies the Yanaguni Formation.
09:44A local diver first noticed these formations in 1986 while searching for new dive sites for tourists.
09:50When he saw the large steps that resembled a pyramid, he decided he must have discovered an underwater city.
09:57Archaeologists believe that the structures belong to a long-forgotten fabled civilization, just like Atlantis, that had vanished beneath the
10:05waves thousands of years ago.
10:06Structures inside the pyramid that resemble stonework, like castles and a stadium, are connected by roads and what seems to
10:14be large walls all the way around.
10:17The marks in the stone show quarry work with faded faces and rocks sculptured into animals.
10:22But other experts say that the symmetry of the rocks is not as perfect as reported,
10:28and that it appears to be solid rock rather than carved blocks.
10:31For them, it's just a coincidence.
10:34Research is going on to determine if it's truly a lost civilization, or nature just having a little fun.
10:42The Lincoln Memorial is gigantic in size, and the view of the reflecting pool mesmerizes visitors.
10:48For enthusiasts that love history, searching for the famous carved lettering mistake in the walls is also part of the
10:55journey.
10:56With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it ventured.
11:00Except the sculptor accidentally spelled future with an E instead of an F.
11:06There is a chamber in the building's foundation that's also worth a visit.
11:10You can even find a cave-like structure, where stalactites form from the dripping water through the limestone through a
11:16secret door.
11:17There's graffiti from unknown construction workers on the supporting columns inside this cavernous space.
11:23Around the northern tip of Queensland, Australia, an uncommon cloud formation that rolls through at dawn scares the tourists.
11:32These clouds are called morning glory, a very rare type of cloud that seems to almost roll across the sky,
11:39looking like a massive tube.
11:41Measuring up to 600 miles long, this phenomenon is the result of an updraft pushing through the cloud, creating a
11:49rolling appearance.
11:50They believe the moist, cool air at the back of the clouds causes them to sink downward, almost dropping onto
11:56the land.
11:57In northeastern Thailand, 466 miles away from Bangkok, a 75-million-year-old rock formation sticks right out of the
12:06mountains and into the forest.
12:08Looking like a pod of whales swimming together, this place is called Three Whale Rock.
12:14Millions of years ago, this area was just a desert.
12:17But archaeological evidence from the Cretaceous period, when the T-Rex and Triceratops were out there, show that the land
12:24was changing quite dramatically at that time.
12:27It's believed that the sandstone mountains were lifted by plate tectonics and erosion by the Mekong River.
12:33It resulted in the strangely shaped rock formations that stand out today.
12:37Anyone willing to hike the network of trails can reach the place and find waterfalls, as well as a wide
12:44variety of plants and animals.
12:46From the very top of these huge monoliths, the beaches of Mekong, the mountains, and forests stretch in all directions.
12:54One of the most talked-about books of the 20th century was an ancient text that no one could read.
13:00The Voynich Manuscript was discovered in 1912 and is the world's most mysterious manuscript.
13:06Looks like it's withholding many secrets from the world.
13:09The handwriting inside is of an unknown language or code.
13:13It's heavily illustrated with strange pictures of unknown objects and zodiac symbols.
13:19The drawings of different plants are the most intriguing thing about the book, as none match any plant species on
13:26Earth that scientists are aware of.
13:28A professor of applied linguistics in England claimed to have deciphered some of the characters in the book.
13:33But, as of yet, everything is still unintelligible.
13:37Jellyfish lightning sprites are electrical discharges high in Earth's atmosphere.
13:42They're associated with powerful thunderstorms, but they're not the same clouds that give us rain.
13:47These sprites occur at 30 to 50 miles above the ground, in the mesosphere.
13:52Artificial lights at night make it a lot more difficult to see this faint lightning, but it can be well
13:57over 30 miles wide.
13:59The red sprites are a type of cold plasma discharged above a thundercloud, turning red with the nitrogen in the
14:05atmosphere.
14:06They work as a balance of the lightning charges between storm clouds and the ground below.
14:11When freezing temperatures hit orchards in Michigan, the local early birds woke up to unusual ice sculptures hanging off tree
14:19branches.
14:20Ghost apples, perfectly formed ice apples.
14:23Finding one is very difficult, as everything has to be perfect for this to occur, and it's got to be
14:29freezing cold.
14:30This rare weather phenomenon causes the apples to freeze on the branch, with rain coating the apples in a thin
14:37layer of ice.
14:38The apples then thaw and leak out like applesauce, leaving just the beautiful ice shell behind.
14:45The Gateway Arch in the city of St. Louis is just like looking back in time.
14:49What most visitors don't know is that the arch also provides a glimpse back to its construction.
14:55The arch is the tallest national monument in the United States, standing at 630 feet high and 630 feet wide.
15:03It was built to withstand earthquakes and high winds, and can sway up from 1 inch to 18 inches in
15:10a 20 mile per hour wind.
15:11It also contains the stories of over 700,000 people from St. Louis, kept in a time capsule that was
15:18welded to the very top.
15:20Found in any snow-covered mountain area, like the Rocky Mountains, the wind, temperature, snow, ice, and moisture have to
15:27all work together for you to see the phenomenal rings known as snow rollers.
15:32Starting with quite a thin layer of damp snow on the ground, it needs to sit on top of ice
15:37or powdered snow.
15:38Then, a strong enough breeze has to move a layer into a donut shape and gently start rolling down a
15:44hill, just like a snowball.
15:46Once it stops rolling, it can be the size of a baseball or as large as a car tire.
15:51It all depends on how strong the wind was blowing that day.
15:55A newly formed snow donut won't stay around for very long, as the dust is quite light.
16:00The Antikythera mechanism is a type of ancient computer that's baffling the scientific community with its extraordinary mechanics.
16:08A Greek ship sank off the coast of the island of Antikythera some 2,000 years ago.
16:14It was only discovered in 1900 by sponge divers.
16:18Archaeologists started sorting out the artifacts retrieved from the wreckage when they came across an object that didn't seem to
16:24fit into the time it was created.
16:26The machine seemed to follow time, the movement of stars, eclipses, moon phases, and even countdowns to events like the
16:34Olympics with amazing precision.
16:36No mechanism would come close to this until the 14th century, when they started building geared clocks in Europe.
16:43Archaeologists in Turkey believe they might have found the oldest known architectural construction in the world.
16:49It's over 10,000 years old, according to the experts.
16:53Found in ancient farming communities, these monolith pillars were up to 18 feet high.
16:58They were probably used for social events and rituals, but not much is known about them.
17:03Some of these large stone structures were human-shaped, with animal carvings and stone rings built into them.
17:09Recently, archaeologists have found rectangular buildings around the site.
17:14The communities that built these monuments were the start of the move into modern civilization.
17:20It was the summer of 1949.
17:23Young geologist Vadim Kolpakov was on a mission to Siberia.
17:27His job was to draw a geological map of the area.
17:31While on duty, he came across something so mysterious and remarkable, he'd continue to puzzle experts decades later.
17:40Though it's now more famous as the Potomanski Crater, locals had dubbed it Fire Eagle Nest, probably because it looks
17:48like a giant bird nest sitting on the hill.
17:51But what was hiding inside would be the most surprising and baffling discovery.
17:55Well, if you could get close enough to uncover its secrets, according to the locals, even wild animals are scared
18:03to go near it.
18:05Kolpakov began walking towards it slowly.
18:07From far away, it looked like a giant bird nest indeed.
18:11The closer he got, the bigger it became.
18:14The crater appeared to be fresh.
18:16It was also deserted.
18:18Trees didn't grow on the slopes of this natural structure, and the winds didn't carry enough soil to make plant
18:24growth possible.
18:26As for animals, none in sight.
18:29He climbed all the way to the top and discovered something unbelievable.
18:34It was so hot that he felt the sweat running down his forehead.
18:38It was as if he was close to a fire source.
18:41His first thought was that this thing is volcanic.
18:45When he looked down, he was met with a perfectly circular mound in the middle.
18:51The round hump in the center of the crater was around the height of your standard telephone pole.
18:56Such things don't appear in volcanoes, even in extinct ones.
19:00And there aren't any around here that link to this peculiar mound.
19:05Unable to solve the strange appearance of the bad place, Kolpakov went back home and told everyone about his discovery.
19:13What was once a local anomaly would soon become a worldwide mystery.
19:18The whole scientific community started digging and coming up with theories.
19:23A lot of experts agreed this must have been the work of a meteorite.
19:28So, they ran tests to see if a meteorite impact could create this double-mound structure.
19:34The findings?
19:36The crater was likely formed by a falling, somewhat spherical object made from a dense material that could only exist
19:44in space.
19:45More experiments found that it wasn't just one object falling from space, but two.
19:50When the first meteorite hit the Earth, it exploded and formed the crater.
19:55Then, the second object followed, but it was slowed down by the first impact and sunk deep into the ground.
20:02But others objected, claiming that meteorites can't fly one after the other and hit the planet in the exact same
20:09spot.
20:10With so many questions still unanswered, more experts came to the Siberian taiga to take a shot at solving the
20:17mystery.
20:17One of them studied trees' rings and collected wood samples.
20:21They figured out that the crater likely appeared about 300 years ago.
20:26They also discovered that vegetation in this spot grew way faster than usual.
20:32After ruling out other growth-boosting factors, like better soil content and more sunshine for some period,
20:38the only guess they were left with was...
20:43Radiation.
20:43Yes, the experts knew that, when exposed to high doses of radiation, trees and plants grow faster.
20:51But the radiation levels on and around the crater were low.
20:55At some point in the last 300 years or so, there must have been radioactive material in the area.
21:02Was it a space rock?
21:04A unique type of volcano?
21:06All theories and no conclusions.
21:09Expeditions continue to this day in search of answers.
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21:13Oh no, come on, that doesn't really matter.
21:15They have a paradox.
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