5 Strange Phenomena That Baffled Scientists

[Music] want to see more cool videos on our channel we do so press this Bell and enable to send notifications science has pretty good answers for some really interesting things in life like what Saturn's rings are made of how we use each side of our brains and the proper way to pack a suitcase but we don't have all the answers there are many weird phenomena that we still can't explain leaving even the brightest minds and most educated humans scratching their heads I'm not just talking about the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle or how black holes work either strange things are happening all around us things you'd never even imagine number 5 curse of Medusa while passing over northeastern Tanzania in 2017 the NASA's Landsat 8 satellite captures a strange image of a red glowing link the lake color appears so unnatural it looks like runoff from an industrial slaughterhouse or something monstrous is lurking underneath it but that's not all according to local legend the lake turns anything that it touches into stone and that's the reason the lake is also known as Medusa link legend states that Medusa was once a beautiful avowed priestess of Athena who was cursed for breaking her vow of celibacy anyone who locked gaze with Medusa would be turned into stone Medusa is beheaded by the Greek hero Perseus and her blood drips onto Africa a deeper investigation revealed that the Medusa lake has not always been red previous satellite images reveal that it's color is changing geologists are intrigued by the lakes strange chameleon waters and the legend of living things turning into stone that's not all surrounding the lake there is a pattern of stones researchers have found that these ruins are all that's left of what was once a thriving community called anger uka but what made the people of anga Ruka abandon the site is what baffled the scientists does it have anything to do with the waters from Medusa lake that was used to farm by the anger oka community upon further inspection of the red water expert found abounded amounts of cyanobacteria living in the environment and it turns out they are red experts believe when the population of this bacteria increases the lake is becoming more redder but how will they explain the animal statues unlike those other lakes though Lake Natron Medusa is extremely alkaline due to high amounts of the chemical nature a mix of sodium carbonate and baking soda in the water the waters pH has been measured as high as 10 point 5 nearly as high as ammonia and this is what causes the animals to turn into stones that's not all some people believe that this bizarre phenomenon has something to do with the volcano that is very close to the Natron lake called old Doinyo Lengai mountain of God in the Masai language which produces unique nitro carbonatite lava experts still weren't able to find out the exact reason what do you guys think let us know in the comments below number four mysterious lines a recently Declassified 1972 spy satellite image of Olivia's High Plains shocks the archaeological world the corona satellite photographs a strange series of lines Criss crossing the plateau stretching for miles and apparently leading to nowhere dig deeper and you'll discover that these are not roads at all foot white lines edged into the desert sand by hand thousands of years ago a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are searching for clues that could reveal who built the lines and why historian David Kruger has seen something similar also in South America he says that these lines are similar to Nazca lines that are located in nearby Peru Peruvian archaeologist toribio mejia xesspe a was the first to systematically study the lines in 1926 however since the lines are virtually impossible to identify from ground they were only first brought to public awareness with the advent of flight by pilots flying commercial planes over Peru in the 1930s when analysts re-examined the satellite image they noticed the lines are not just random markings in the ground seemed to form a pattern like a spiderweb and it's huge investigators then started to look into archaeological records for other signs that looked like spider webs and what they found was creepy they found an ancient people called mo che who lived over two thousand years ago who are very skilled engineers among their many rituals mo J worshipped a brutal and terrifying spider God called the Decapitator this giant spider deity demands sacrifices of the most gruesome kind investigators consider if the lines in the satellite image were constructed as an omage to the Decapitator but recent carbon dating of the lines in Bolivia confirms they were made 3,000 years ago a thousand years before the mo J people some archaeologists suspect that the lines may be hiding something altogether different within their intricate patterns investigators analyzed satellite images for clues as to what the lines could be connecting and make an intriguing discovery when you really zoom in on these lines you can see that it's not just a straightforward line there are little tiny dots along it archeologists believe that these dots are actually tombs which were built to bury noble people in fetal position along with earthly possessions to carry them into the next life but as of now their origins still remain an unsolved mystery number three strange rings January 22nd 2010 meteorologists in Australia spotted a bizarre disc of glowing rings on their satellite radar images it's like nothing they have ever seen a strange giant white circle hanging over the city of Melbourne at first meteorologists thought that there is no possible way that these circles could be natural the discs span an area of tens of thousands of square miles across Southeast Australia reaching out to the island of Tasmania off the south coast prior to the appearance of the white rings there have not been any storms or violent weather it's actually quite the opposite the country is experiencing one of the longest droughts on record at first meteorologists haven't been given any serious attention about these rings and most people disregarded them the Australian media says these rings are perfectly normal and it's all a conspiracy but after Australia was hit by massive floods and the floods reached biblical proportions experts believed that analyzing and understanding these rings is very important over a period of 30 days nine more rings appeared over Australia the spirals mystify Australia's meteorologists conspiracy websites however have lit up with dozens of breathless theories behind these strange anomalies from alien involvement secret military testing to government weather modification one theory gaining traction online is the belief the US military has expanded its high frequency active auroral research program others claim unlike the failed cloud seeding experiments of yesteryear conspiracy theorists claim HAARP is engaged in a sophisticated form of weather modification and that testing is also being done from a secret facility near Exmouth in Western Australia number two hexagon clouds researchers in the u.s. claim they have discovered the answer to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle covering more than half a million square miles of ocean located between Bermuda Florida and Puerto Rico the term Bermuda Triangle was first coined by writer Vincent H Gattis in 1964 the area is notorious for legend has it the unusually high number of planes and ships that go missing there without a trace in a new science Channel documentary meteorologists claim that an unusual type of cloud located in the region could be behind a number of the disappearances the hexagonal shaped clouds measuring between 20 and 50 miles across can cause extremely localized high winds which they speculate could be the cause of some of the previously unexplained incidents these types of hexagonal shapes over the ocean are in essence air bombs said dr. Randy Cerveny of Arizona State University they're formed by what are called micro bursts their blasts of air that come down out of the bottom of the clouds and hit the ocean and they create waves that can sometimes be massive in size once they start to interact with each other however some experts have disputed the meteorologists claims NBC's Kevin Corriveau said when I look at a hexagonal cloud shape in the Bahamas this is not the cloud signature of what a microburst looks like you would normally have one large two extremely large thunderstorm that wouldn't have an opening in the middle others have pointed out that while there have indeed been a number of disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle region they are statistically relatively insignificant given the huge number of ships and aircraft that passed through the area number one Island goes missing for more than a decade it is featured on the world's maps viewed from Google Earth Sandy Island appears as a dark tantalizing sliver set amid the shimmering vastness of the Pacific Ocean but when marine scientists arrived at the island they were in for something of a shock it didn't exist where there was supposed to be a sandy outcrop complete with palm trees a few coconuts and maybe a turtle there was merely blue undulating water the Australian scientists led by Maria Seaton a geologist at Sydney University had embarked on a voyage to study plate tectonics they spotted that the enigmatic island lay along their route but there were several puzzling discrepancies though the island appeared on the Google Earth map there were no images of it it had also featured for the past twelve years on the usually reliable world coastline database but there was no sign of it on their sea chart the scientists added this was one of those intriguing questions it wasn't far outside of our path we decided to actually sail through the island lo and behold there was nothing the ocean floor didn't ever get shallower than 1300 meters below the wave base there's an island in the middle of nowhere that doesn't actually exist ships and planes have vanished in the Bermuda Triangle submarines have sunk without a trace but an entire Island the disappearance presents investigators with a bizarre challenge how to find a scientific explanation for an island that's gone missing here appear to be a few strong leads for scientists to follow up in their quest to solve the riddle of the missing island which according to Google Maps should belong to France because it is located inside the territorial waters of New Caledonia the australian navy's hydrographic Service believes human error may be behind the mysterious discrepancy of Sandy another theory is that the Australian scientists may simply have been in the wrong place according to multiple witnesses sandy island was real so where has it gone with no obvious logical explanation for the disappearance the disappearance of sandy island still remains a mystery thank you so much for watching and if you enjoy the video please let me know by clicking the like button do share write a comment and don't forget to subscribe so that you can catch up my next video

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Length: 11min 47sec (707 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 15 2019