A Mysterious Place No People No Animals Can Approach

it was the summer of 1949 young geologist vadim kolpakov was on a mission to northern Russia in the Irkutsk region his job was to draw a geological map of the area while on duty he came across something so mysterious and remarkable it continued to puzzle experts decades later ooh what could it be it was the middle of August go pack off though tired from all the walking reached the area he needed a map there he meant the local Yakutia who warned him about a bad place hidden in the woods though now it's more famous as the pototsky crater locals had dubbed it fire Eagle Nest probably because it looks like a giant bird nest sitting on a hill and I'm a giant it rises 130 feet in the air half as tall as a giant sequoia the cone like structures base as a diameter of 320 feet almost as wide as the Seattle Space Needle is tall but what was hiding inside would be the most surprising and baffling discovery well if you could get close enough to uncover its secrets according to the yaku people even wild animals are scared to go near it locals had all sorts of theories about this earthly mystery they said that people fell ill around it and some of them even went missing never to be found when the young geologist heard about the possible dangers he wasn't scared at all he became even more curious about what's going on in that crater so he decided to approach it get a closer look and find out he thought that as an expert he might be able to give a simple explanation if only it were that easy he began walking towards it slowly while also observing the nature around it he looked at some of the half broken trees the soil and the plants at first he thought it might be an archaeological artifact but the ancient locals didn't have the engineering technology the Egyptians or Romans had back then to build something so big could it be the work of another ancient civilization though from far away it looked like a giant bird nest indeed the closer he got the bigger it became that was when he realized it couldn't have been built by humans there was nothing that resembled any ancient architecture he could connect it to maybe it was a volcano a plausible theory but there haven't been any around that location for millions of years plus the creature appeared to be fresh it was also deserted trees didn't grow on the slopes of this natural structure and the winds didn't carry enough soil to make plant growth possible are the aquit people correct do animals avoid it too he climbed all the way to the top and discovered something unbelievable it was so hot that he felt the sweat running down his forehead It was as if he was close to a fire source when he looked down he was met with a perfectly circular mound in the middle another mystery he thought to himself the round hump in the center of the crater was around 40 feet tall the height of your standard telephone pole such things don't appear in volcanoes even in extinct ones and there aren't any around here that link to this particular mount without being able to solve the strange appearance of the bad place coal pack-off went back home and told everyone about his discovery what was once a local anomaly would soon become a worldwide mystery after a while the crater was named the most mysterious place in Russia for many reasons trees didn't grow on or around the structure and they also found that radiation levels were very high but I'm getting ahead of myself and I sure don't want to do that his discovery sparked an interest in the scientific community and people started digging and coming up with theories a lot of experts agreed that this must have been the work of a meteorite they believed that the space rock entered the Earth's atmosphere at incredible speeds but had been slowed down quite a bit by the time it struck the surface but it still hit hard enough to form the infamous crater as the years went on without a definite answer to what happened almost everyone agreed that this must be the case but later other scientists came to add their own alternate theories one of them was geologist Alexander port Knopf he believed that the Creator was the result of a space rock slicing off the famous Tunguska meteoroid which exploded over Krasnoyarsk the third-largest city in Siberia in the summer of 1908 but get this the meteorite that should have struck the earth was never found the accepted theory is that it disintegrated a few miles in the air before it made contact those two theories inspired many expeditions to the mysterious site visiting scientists took samples of the soil and surrounding plants wood lab tests proved that this thing had cosmic origins hard to say because their efforts ended up being fruitless so the research continued and only grew as the story began making headlines in 2006 dr. alexander dmitriyevich Cook's State Technical University found a puzzling magnetic anomaly in the area he thought that there could be iron or some other metal a few hundred feet below the surface so another expert joined the project it was dr. Igor Simon off from the Moscow Institute for problems and mechanics he ran some tests to see if a meteorite impact could create this double mound structure sometime later he came out with his findings the crater was likely formed by a falling somewhat spherical object made from a dense material that could only exist in space when the paper covering this theory came out some experts did more experiments to see if it was possible they found that it wasn't just one object falling from space but to traveling over 14,000 miles per hour when the first meteorite hit the earth it exploded and formed the crater then the second object followed but it was slowed down by the first impact and sunk deep into the ground yet again there were problems with that theory too many astrophysicists objected claiming that meteorites can't fly one after the other and hit the planet in the exact same spot with so many questions still unanswered more and more experts came to the Siberian location to take a shot at solving the mystery one of them started collecting wood samples to determine the age of the trees in the area and compared them to small samples taken on the slope itself in the end they finally had a breakthrough they found that the crater likely appeared about 300 years ago when check how still a mystery they came across another secret while studying the trees by counting the rings in a tree's trunk scientists can find not only how old they are but also any abnormalities in that time with this experiment they noticed that the vegetation grew way faster than usual in this spot after ruling out other growth boosting factors like better soil content and more sunshine for some period of time the only guests they were left with was radiation yes the experts knew that when exposed to high doses of radiation trees and plants grow faster but the radiation levels on and around the crater were low at some point in the last 300 years or so there must have been radioactive material in the area their way to check was to examine the trees even further for elements that show that and bingo they found high levels of uranium and strontium in the trunks but those elements had decayed in the last 20 years hence why initial readings on the crater itself weren't too high the next step was to finally unveil the mystery of what this thing is they turned their attention to the assumption kolpakov had made when he first explored the fire eagle nest what if this thing is a volcano that instead of lava spews out gas and do you think that was the answer they had been looking for you should know by now that there was a problem with this theory - the gases most volcanoes put out aren't dangerously radioactive so that couldn't explain the radiation in the trees that and it hadn't erupted in recent years to analyze its gas though a gas eruption could explain how the thing rose from the underground and a second eruption could be what caused that mound to spring up in the center yet the mystery remains to this day why were the trees radioactive at some point why is there high magnetism in the area if a space rock hit the earth where did it go and if it wasn't a meteorite then what gave birth to this enigmatic mound jutting out of the isolated Siberian forests expeditions continue to this day in search of answers

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Length: 9min 29sec (569 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 17 2020