22 Mysterious Statues No One Can Explain

around 300 ancient stone spheres called dikey spheres were found in costa rica in the 1930s two mysteries keep scientists baffled how were these huge rocks transported for miles from the mountains before the wheel had been introduced to the americas and how were the stones shaped into almost perfect spheres hundreds of nazca lines in peru are etched into the ground they range from basic shapes to distinct drawings of animals such as llamas and lizards and even plants scientists have been studying them for over 80 years but still can't decide if they're astronomical patterns directions to water sources or traces of a visit from outer space in the mid-1980s a scuba diver discovered the yanagumi monument off the coast of japan scientists are positive this collection of structures is thousands of years old but they still can't decide if it's natural or man-made in case it proves to be an ancient city the new mystery is what lost civilization built it and how did it make it to the bottom of the sea the grenada underwater sculpture park opened in 2006 is more than just one weird statue it's like a whole city with real size human sculptures 26 kids holding hands in a circle and the loss corresponded are the most famous all this is supposed to help protect the reefs but the meaning of each statue is an open discussion the georgia guidestones is a collection of giant stones in a star pattern it gives direction for the post-apocalypse in eight languages including hindi chinese and swahili it also has an astronomical calendar finished in 1980 and built to last centuries no one knows who or why it was built a monument to the alien alyosha is the number one tourist attraction in russia's molupka's anomalous zone in 1983 a geologist saw a luminous object over the forest and then found some perfectly round spots in the snow the alien sculpture is the height of an average adult man and was placed there in 2011. the famous stone heads of easter island have been around for hundreds of years no one knows exactly why they were built some scientists think the local people believed the statues would make the soil more fertile soil analysis proved the heads did their job well it's the best agricultural spot on the island back in 1812 for an unknown reason an english farmer paid a local painter to remove tons of soil on a hillside and fill the contours with chalk the painter ran away with the money so the farmer had to pay a second time to get the alton barnes white horse finished around 11 000 years ago in present-day turkey with no cities or metal tools whatsoever some incredibly skilled craftsmen completed goldbecky tepa while they managed to chip and lift limestone blocks three times as heavy as a t-rex and what they symbolize is still unknown carhenge is the weirdest landmark of nebraska its author studied the real stonehenge and created his own version out of old cars as a tribute to his father some cars stand like monoliths others are connected into arches when asked why he did all this the creator of the construction said why not another stonehenge lookalike was found on the bottom of lake michigan in 2007 there's a group of rocks in a circle and carvings of a mastodon this beast ceased existing over 10 000 years ago so the carving has to be older than that its location is kept secret from the public good luck finding it angkor wad in cambodia is the largest religious monument in the world it takes days to see all of it and centuries to solve all its secrets it's facing west while all other temples of its kind faced east where the sun rises and all of its bass reliefs are read counterclockwise the opposite of normal in one of the driest spots on earth the atacama desert in chile there's a hand coming out of the sand human helplessness vulnerability or the spirit that wins over anything everybody sees the statue their own way and no one knows why it was placed in such a remote location right in the pavement outside the state library of victoria and milburn there's another library a sinking one is it symbol of disappearing knowledge or a new civilization breaking through the ground to bring new wisdom up to you in the financial district of paris there's a giant thumb which is an exact replica of its creator's digit it's been around since 1965 and weighs the same as three elephants it's not the only monument of its kind there are other huge thumbs by the same artist spread across the world the hagar kim meaning standing stones site in malta was completed around 3000 bce some stone age genius most likely using stone tools managed to set the rocks in such a way that they could show the beginning and end of the year on march 21st and september 21st the sun is exactly in the middle three thousand standing rocks were spread over present-day brittany france in the neolithic period after centuries of trying scientists still can't tell the purpose of this largest collection of rocks in the world it looks like it was created by a culture related to stonehenge which means travel and technology may have been in place long before we realized in 1923 a guy in florida who was dumped the day before his wedding started putting together the coral castle a monument to lost love how a five foot tall man with a fourth grade education managed to lift stone blocks eight times as heavy as a hippo all by himself will of course forever remain his secret ball back in lebanon is a huge stone souvenir of the roman empire they used to call it the city of the sun the oldest and deepest part of the ruins was built by a culture unknown to historians so is the answer to the question why was this spot so important to the romans the great zimbabwe ruins were once home to 18 000 people and gave name to a whole country the first european explorers came here in the 16th century they couldn't believe a civilization was able to build such a fortress among the gold mines their drainage system still works centuries later one of the biggest mysteries in history is the great sphinx of giza egypt who was the lion with the human head how did the ancient egyptians manage to construct this huge statue they kept no records and perhaps they didn't want us to know since many attempts to study the sphinx result in mysterious accidents enough of the earthly mysteries let's take it one step higher right into space in 1976 the viking one spacecraft was traveling around mars looking for its sister ship it took some photos of the planet and when nasa studied them they saw a huge rock shaped like a human face they explained it was a simple game of light and shadows still many people see it as proof that life on mars exists or existed a long time ago

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Length: 7min 40sec (460 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 29 2020