[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this documentary will look at some of the most bizarre and strange places around the world these anomalies will keep scientists searching for answers and the rest of us astounded by the secrets and mysteries the world continues to reveal although science can explain almost everything that happens on this planet that doesn't mean there isn't room for a little mystery as well Neil Armstrong once rightly observed mystery creates Wonder and Wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand number one Mount Shasta Mount Shasta volcano located at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County California stands at 14,179 feet it's the second highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth highest in California Mount Shasta is one of those places an ancient sacred mountain pilgrimage destination those mysteries still call out to us from the past the mountain is legendary for containing all kinds of local folklore about underground tunnels and Hollow Earth type theories natives have always considered this mountain as a sacred place and in recent decades it's been connected to a mystical power that emanates peace and harmony given the increasing number of sightings that have been reported in the area in the last decade some believe that Mount Shasta is closely related to mysterious flying objects and some have ventured as far as to say there are secret underground bases located inside this magical Mountain the Hopi Indians have legends about a vast network of caves and a great city under Mount Shasta where the reptilian race lives many people living around Mount Shasta have told stories about very tall humanoids occasionally appearing in smaller towns some people in Mount Shasta believed that a lost continent called Lemuria is hidden beneath the mountain along with its crystalline capital city Telos where they recreated their once great Society and purportedly continue to live to this day in 1904 JC Brown made what he thought was the most exciting archaeological find of the century when he discovered a lost city below the mountain later based on Browns account an expedition led by John C route and comprised of 80 members was brought together to explore further the tunnel based on these claims however on June 19th 1934 the day the exploration was due to set out California JC Brown did not show up and in fact he was never seen again writer and Explorer dr. doriel who was invited to visit Mount Shasta in 1931 and claimed to have penetrated the mountain lair of the Lemurians he saw what he described as an enormous cavern that was an astounding 20 miles long 15 miles wide and 2 miles high in the June 27th 1940 edition of the Mount Shasta Herald William bridge Cooke wrote of a professor Edward L Larkin of the mount Lowe Observatory who claimed to have observed the mystical city at great length through his telescope on several occasions the list of all the stories of people who claimed to be taken into the underground chambers and caverns beneath Mount Shasta would fill in a lot of books and extends well back into the late 1800s up until present day the Paiute Indians of the Southwest us a claim that a Greek or Egyptian like race first colonized the massive caverns within the Panamint Mountains thousands of years ago when Death Valley was part of an inland sea connected to the Pacific Ocean some tribes have admitted that the locations and entrances of these tunnels are a closely guarded secret which has never been shared with the outside world the region surrounding Mount Shasta contains thousands of caves you must wonder what secrets they may Harbor as the vast majority have still never been number two the Bermuda Triangle you might think that the barren waters of the Bermuda Triangle are just boring see vast turbulent and seldom viewed by man quite the contrary the heart of the triangle is covered by the strangest and most notorious sea on the planet the Sargasso Sea so named because there's a kind of seaweed which lazily floats over the entire expanse called Sargassum catching sight of these enormous mats of seaweed has always marked the perimeter of this peculiar sea Columbus himself made note of it the Sargasso Sea occupies that part of the Atlantic between 20 degrees to 35 degrees north latitude and 30 degrees to 70 degrees west longitude it's in complete contrast to the ocean around it its currents are largely in mobile yet surrounded by some of these strongest currents in the world the Florida Gulf Stream canary North equatorial Antilles and Caribbean currents legends of a sea of lost ships predates the Bermuda Triangle by centuries and was in many ways strikingly like the mythos of the modern Bermuda Triangle derelict vessels were found here more often shipshape but deserted on one occasion a slaver was sighted with nothing but skeletons aboard the rosalie sailed through this area in 1840 before later turning up derelict as reported in the London Times in 1881 the schooner Ellen Austin supposedly found a derelict vessel and placing a prize crew aboard sailed in tandem for the port two days later the ship was sighted sailing erratically when boarded again the ship was once again deserted there was no trace of the crew the bark James B Chester was found deserted in the Sargasso Sea in 1857 with chairs kicked over on the mess table modern derelicts have included the connemara the fourth found drifting a hundred forty miles from Bermuda in 1955 plus several yachts and sailboats found in 1969 and 1982 an evaluation of ship and aircraft disappearances draws a striking connection with the modern Bermuda Triangle the northern border of the Sargasso Sea more correctly represents the northern limits of the area of disappearances for many aircraft and ships were in this vicinity when they vanished in other words a few hundred miles north of Bermuda but just entering the Sargasso Sea the SS poet 520 feet bound for Gibraltar in 1980 and si si b-52 on maneuvers in 1961 KB fifty aerial tanker in 1962 a super Connie in 1954 a navy Martin Marlin amphibian in 1956 are but a few examples the seaweed sea has a centuries-old rep for mysterious disappearances the sea of lost ships has not been solved in modern times it's only expanded to the skies above and the mystery of missing aircraft seems even greater since neither calms nor Sargassum can affect them if the Sargassum and these stagnant calms cannot affect modern travel and yet aircraft and ships disappear alike then the mystery is not one of the seas but of the planet itself its shape mass and the area's juxtaposition on this very mysterious sphere we live on number three airs running in the Northern Territory of Australia lies the single largest monolith rock in the world ayers rock at a staggering height of 346 meters and running about two miles in length and width this sandstone rock formation towers over an otherwise completely flat terrain LaRue's ancient mysteries begin with its geology it was once believed to be a meteorite but later geologists judged it a monolith a single solid piece of 700 million year old our crows a kind of sandstone uluru is likely two-thirds buried with the invisible part jutting below the surface at an 80 degree angle the beginning of human settlement in the olerude region has not been determined but archeological findings to the east and west indicated date more than ten thousand years ago believed to have been formed by the activities of ancestral beings in creation time or dream time the beautiful site includes many caves water holes and ancient rock paintings according to the anon GU traditional land owners of uluru the world was once a featureless place none of the places we know existed until creator beings in the form of people plants and animals traveled widely across the land then in a process of creation and destruction they form the landscape as we know it today an undue land is still inhabited by the spirits of dozens of these ancestral creator beings which are referred to as tsukareta or whopper Icha now more widely known as uluru the Anangu name for the mysterious monolith it seems to hold power over people the traditional owners have known this for thousands of years and respected spirituality one of the reasons why they ask that tourists not climate strange things happen when people visit ayers rock it's sometimes reported that those who take rocks from the formation will be cursed and suffer misfortune there have been many instances where people who remove such rocks attempted to mail them back to various agencies to remove the perceived curse the dry rugged outback of this part of Central Australia has thrown up many unsolved mysteries British tourist Peter Falcone Oh disappeared on a lonely stretch of highway just north of Alice Springs in July 2001 his body's never been found despite one of the largest searches in Australian history it was also close to Ayers Rock that Azaria Chamberlain disappeared in 1980 never to be seen again uluru remains sacred to several aboriginal tribes in the region who still perform rituals in the caves and make new rock paintings number four lake vostok early research into lake vostok indicated that the body of water had a depth of at least 2,000 feet far greater than any of the great lakes and half as deep as Asia's Lake Baikal 5000 feet a length of 300 miles and a width of 50 miles contrary to what was initially believed the lake received filtered light further investigations also detected the existence of geothermal sources which warmed the lake to an astonishing 50 degrees Fahrenheit with hotspots of up to 65 degrees given these new discoveries regarding solar radiation and temperature scientists suggested the possibility that the lakes encapsulated atmosphere purified itself through a complex interaction with water and that the chances for vegetable life-forms were very good research conducted by Russian scientist Ian Tosca boy who mysteriously vanished near the Vostok station in March 2000 on geothermal up boiling also hinted at an alternative means of purification and replenishment for the subterranean lakes atmosphere however the most intriguing news coming out of Antarctica had to do with the extremely powerful magnetic anomaly located in the northern end of the lakes coast a discovery which would give rise to a number of conjectures and we'd be compared to the tma-1 tycho magnetic anomaly one in the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey the electronic newspaper Antarctic Sun which soon became the main source of information on the lake vostok magnetic anomaly stated that during the initial flight of the office of arrow physical research aimed at conducting magnetic resonance imaging over the area the magnetometer recorded an increase of 1,000 nano Tesla's beyond the 60,000 nano Tesla's which characterized the Vostok station scientists had expected to find magnetic anomalies in the range of 500 to 600 nano Tesla's in areas where volcanic material could be located but the range is encountered were simply startling this anomaly is so large that it cannot be the product of a daily change in the magnetic field stated Michael studinger one of the researchers involved in the mapping endeavor Australian geologist Harry Mason summarized the subject thus the magnetic anomalies sheer size and intensity suggest the presence of a large ultrabass component under this section of Lake Vostok at the surface of the continental crust rock in other words on the old surface prior to the ice formation scientists think this may be due to the Earth's crust thinning but it may also signify a lost city hidden below the lake while there is more than one theory about where the final resting place of Plato's Atlantis is Lake Vostok is a strong contender with novelists and university professors alike allegedly claiming that tectonic shifts caused Atlantis to relocate to the South Pole in 2012 a team successfully drilled through the ice to get to the lake and low Kait more than 3,500 species of life no doubt soon lake vostok will reveal many answers about the history of earth the only question is if there will be released to the public or remain secret forever number 5 Oak Island money pit the story of Oak Island Nova Scotia is one of the most frustrating and intriguing mysteries of all time imagine being in Daniel mcginnises shoes in 1795 walking through the trees of a wooded island rumored to hide buried pirate treasure suddenly you come across a depression in the ground it's roughly circular and there's a tree standing above it with a branch that's been cut and appears to have been used as a pulley your imagination is fired you run off to get your friends and digging equipment you and two friends return the next day shovels in hand ready to claim your prize only two feet down your shovel strikes rock as you clear the dirt away you find a neatly arranged layer of flagstone covering a circular area 13 feet in diameter you pry the stones out expecting treasure but there's only more dirt you begin again digging down 8 more feet suddenly you hit wood you scrape away the dirt only to find a platform of oak logs covering the pit you pull out the logs and resume your digging send more feet and you finally strike wood as you clear the area you find another level of oak logs now you know there's something valuable here why else would anyone go to so much trouble now 20 feet below the surface you must again another 10 feet another set of oak boards disappointed you and your friends decide that you can't go any further alone you leave but vow to return to retrieve your treasure now imagine that it's more than 200 years later the pit has been explored to more than 150 feet the treasure if any that was buried is still there protected by an engine booby-trap that floods the pit with seawater anytime someone gets close group after group after group have tried to solve the riddle neither brute force nor technology have been able to overcome the problems six lives have been lost and millions of dollars spent trying to uncover the secrets of what's become known as the money pit so who built the money pit some theories suggest that these structures built on Oak Island may have been hundreds perhaps even thousands of years old when they were discovered in 1795 they may have been built by Vikings visiting the new world or by the native Mi'kmaq people who lived in the region before the Europeans arrived perhaps they were built by an advanced civilization that we know nothing about indeed the flood tunnel trap built into the pit in some ways reminds one of the false doors and granite plugs found in Egyptian tombs to prevent grave robbing what's in the money pit in addition to the Ark of the Covenant and Holy Grail some people believe that the money pit is littered with pirate treasure others think Marie Antoinette's lost crown jewels could lie deep within the money pit some say the Viking ship rests in the money pit area according to the History Channel the ship sank in the islands quicksand-like surface however despite it being nearly 225 years after its discovery still no one knows what lies at the bottom who built it or why number 6 Coral Castle this amazing castle may hold clues to long-lost powers Coral Castle in Homestead Florida is one of the most amazing structures ever built in terms of accomplishment it's been compared to Stonehenge ancient Greek temples and even the Great Pyramids of Egypt incredibly it was quarried fashioned transported and constructed by one man Edward Leedskalnin a five foot tall 100-pound Latvian immigrant he used huge blocks of coral rock some weighing as much as 30 tons and some I was able to move them and set them in place without assistance or the use of modern machinery how did he do it it's estimated that 1000 tons of coral rock were used in construction of the walls and towers and an additional 100 tons of it were carved into furniture and art objects an obelisk II raised weighs 28 tons the walls surrounding Coral Castle stands eight feet tall and consists of large blocks each weighing several tons large stone crescents are perched atop 20-foot high walls a nine tons swinging gate that moves at the touch of a finger guards the eastern wall the largest rock on the property weighs an estimated 35 tons some stones are twice the weight of the largest blocks in the Great Pyramid at Giza working alone Leedskalnin labored for 20 years from 1920 to 1940 to build the home he originally called rock Gate Park in Florida City in 1936 when a planned new subdivision of homes threatened his privacy Leedskalnin moved his entire home 10 miles to homestead where he completed it and where it still stands as a tourist attraction hollow leads scaled and managed this feat of Engineering has remained a mystery all these years because incredibly no one saw him do it a secretive man leads scaled and often worked at night by lantern light even when he moved the entire structure to homestead neighbors saw the coral blocks being transported on a borrowed truck but no one seems to know how Leedskalnin got them on or off the vehicle lots of weird stories have been told and bizarre theories proposed to explain Coral Castle and since no witness can dispute any of them they're all worthy of consideration in an article called the Coral Castle mystery Atlanta's rising author Christopher dawn asserts what if there's no such thing as gravity and the natural forces we already know about are enough to explain the noted phenomena we've labeled as gravity perhaps lead skelemans means of working with the Earth's gravitational pull was nothing more complicated than devising a means by which the alignment of magnetic elements within his coral blocks was adjusted to face the streams of individual magnets he claims are issuing forth from the earth with a like repelling pole when he asked how he managed the feat Leedskalnin replied only that he understood the laws of weight and leverage he's quoted as saying I've discovered the secrets of the pyramids I've found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru Yucatan and Asia with only primitive tools raised and set in place blocks of stones weighing many tons had he nearly found a very clever way to manipulate the great stones with levers and pulleys Leedskalnin took his secrets with him to his grave in 1951 secrets that are still waiting to be rediscovered number seven sedona just south of flagstaff arizona sits one of the most stunning areas of the country sedona with red sandstone formations that carve out canyons this place is particularly remarkable at sunrise and sunset but sedona isn't just known for red sandstone cliffs it's also famous for its vortex and interdimensional portals making it one of the most mysterious places on the planet according to local folklore star people were present in the area in the distant past it's also said some tunnels lead from Sedona to another space-time dimension others believe that another ethereal city exists directly above Sedona and the supernatural energies of that place draw strange powers to this portion of Arizona even seasoned researchers have been hard-pressed to explain the peculiar electromagnet energies of the region author Tom dango writes to define Sedona in terms of principles of reality transcending those of any science metaphysics one could say that it's a town situated in a vast zone of powerful shifting mysterious and sometimes volatile energies to label these energies and only magnetic or electromagnetic terms is to restrict their greater meaning these energies are truly cosmic and of many variations and applications vortexes can appear anywhere in the Sedona area somehow Sedonas iron rich red rocks draw or generate these powers it said that these energies will soon expand and become one then join with other energies and expand across the face of the earth it was in 1992 that Bob Bradshaw jr. and his wife Linda along with several of her sons began to catalogue unusual activity on their property in Sedona it started slowly with sightings of unusual lights in the clear desert sky and escalated in details of Bigfoot UFOs extraterrestrial beings dinosaurs and strange creatures the experiences she reported along with other witnesses border on the weird side Linda firmly believed that the ranch was home to what she referred to as a light portal she inferred that the abnormal and strange activity was occurring due to an interdimensional window to which creatures benign and benevolent could freely travel from one dimension to another rather suspiciously on September 22nd 2000 in a USDA Forest Service release bill cousin er spokesperson for keeps Sedona Beautiful alluded to the government's interest in the property after years of property tax hikes and the government's pressing interest in the property the ranch became another parcel of federal land acquired by the u.s. Forest Service in May of 2003 the Bradshaw had no choice but to vacate the property researchers were quick to dismiss kusers words and insinuated that the ranch was purchased in order to conceal the powerful interdimensional portal alleged to exist on the property others speculate that it was a tactical maneuver to hide a secret base or even an extraterrestrial cover-up researchers believe there are entrances to these bases at a large cement plant in Jerome beneath Bradshaw ranch and in various Canyon areas around Sedona for now at least Sedona with its unsolved secrets will continue to be shrouded in mystery number eight for Magic Island on maps dating as far back as the 1700s burmecia Island was shown off the Yucatan Peninsula schoo stadt a greater distance than any other Island claimed by Mexico the island with an area of 80 square kilometers was a common fixture on maps drawn by Spanish explorers its location sometimes varied slightly its name occasionally appeared as verm Asia but its existence seemed certain enough it's mapped appearance can be seen on the 1921 edition of the Mexican Republic Geographic atlas the last government printed schoolbooks showing is Lebar MeJA was released in 1946 after that interest in the island disappeared it seems along with the island so what happened to it a 2009 National Autonomous University of Mexico study concluded the island doesn't exist at least not where it's supposed to the search team using underwater sensing devices and aerial reconnaissance assets couldn't find the island anywhere in the area in which maps indicated it should be so why does this matter well turns out the island is worth trillions of dollars the island was ideally situated for Mexico to extend its claim on offshore oil and stop the United States encroachment on Mexico's territory if berm Asia island existed that would push Mexico's territorial waters out further giving the country more of the western doughnut hole a part of the Gulf believed to contain great oil reserves perplexed by the disappearance of the island the Mexican government sent their own missions to find it a navy ship the unjú coup sailed to the latitude indicated on the maps to confirm the existence of the island but arriving on the scene nothing was found and the so NARS did not detect any sign of the rock formation in addition to the sea expeditions there have been attempts to locate the island by air and satellite one notable attempt to locate the island by air was made by the Mexican television network Televisa which created a show about Isla berm Asia they considered the island to be a mystery along the lines of the Bermuda Triangle indeed others have noted the existence of ley lines crossing the path of the island or mysterious vortexes nearby that may cause the island to pump in and out of existence if the island once existed and indeed is now gone there are several explanations of foot to explain the islands disappearance one is that berm Asia was sunk by a sequin poor tectonic shift in the ocean floor others speculate global warming has a hand in the islands disappearance Mexican senators both left and right of the political divide implied that the island has been deliberately sunk a force of nature able to sink an island does that take place without anyone noticing and much less so when it's sitting in an area with more than 22 billion barrels of oil reserves it's interesting to note that sometime during the 1970s satellite images from space began to show the island since then its never been seen sentence unlike other islands that vanished research vessels found nothing at its location no rock remains no ruined stones nothing at all only the bottom of the sea until new evidence comes to light the mystery of burmecia island seems likely to remain for a long time number 9 lake anjikuni anjikuni lake can be found deep in the Kimberley region of rural Nunavut in Canada the inhabitants belonged to an indigenous tribe of Inuit a kind of semi nomadic group composed of hunters and farmers this place and its former inhabitants are at the center of Canada's biggest unsolved mystery in November 1930 a man named Joe LaBelle walked into the village and found himself perplexed labelled a fur trader had visited the village many times before over the years but this time he found it unnaturally quiet and for good reason not a single person was to be found in the village nor any animals pets or wild he found fires still burning food stalks intact and the villagers belongings in place as he continued to search it became clear that the people of lake anjikuni had vanished stranger still even the graves were empty LaValle went looking for evidence of their sudden departure but he could find no footsteps or prints in the snow a local trapper our Mandla rent and his sons reported to Canadian Mounties that they had seen a huge cylindrical object flying in the sky moving towards anjikuni Lake II said the object was airborne and was capable of changing shape the first press accounts of the ordeal appeared in the newspaper La Paz Manitoba where reporter Emmett Keller first published a story on the disappearance in November 1930 shortly thereafter another newspaper the Danville B of Quebec published the story as well the report that propelled the case into national spotlight was the article published in the Halifax Herald that named the abandoned location the village of the Dead in its headline from there the story circulated to countless newspapers crossing the continent before eventually fading from common consciousness what really happened if they plan to move to a different area they would never have left their dogs behind there was no reason for the Inuits to leave anjikuni resources of that area had not decreased the tribe could survive a thousand more years using those resources plus as already mentioned no footprints were found so this theory can be ruled out there have been all sorts of claims including aliens ghosts and even Wendigos in the latter half of the 20th century numerous UFO gist speculated on this case and written in this case strangely within a year the village was raised for reasons unexplained by the government the village was no longer listed on government maps a few commercial maps up to the mid 1950s did continue to list the village but with a parenthetical note that the village was abandoned no current maps lists the area whatever their fates may have been the fact remains that sometime during November of 1930 approximately 30 people who just a day before were working and playing apparently abandon their homes and vanished from the face of the earth this is one mystery much like the Roanoke colony that will most likely never be solved the in capability to understand the real story behind some of these anomalies has drawn in many skilled investigators researchers archeologists geologists and many more they're just so infused by intrigue that there's no explaining it well it can certainly be frustrating to be left without answers there's something exciting in the mystery of not knowing perhaps one day some of the mysteries surrounding these worldwide locations will be revealed but for now at least many of these places will remain a complete mess three [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]
