These Places Shouldn't Exist on Earth But They Damn Well DO

whether man-made or not there are countless locations in our world that raise more questions than answers from a crater that looks like it leads into the depths of hell to the town that sends its residents to sleep there's no shortage of head-scratching places on earth so without further ado let's check out some places that shouldn't exist on our planet but somehow still do the centralia mine centralia pennsylvania was once a bustling town filled with residents thanks to the area's rich coal mining industry but the coal that built the town would ultimately be the thing that brought it to its very knees believe it or not today the ground beneath the now ghost town of centralia is on fire for those brave enough to visit you can even catch smoke erupting up from the ground but how did this happen well if we jump back to may of 1962 it's recorded that the burning of the contents of a local landfill accidentally sparked a fire in the coal mines below it the mines began to burn and soon the blaze spread along the huge coal seams running through tunnels under the town but back up a second there 1962 and it's still burning today that would mean it's been on fire for over 50 years well it's true as it turns out the fire spread so far and became so intense that there was nothing the residents could do to put it out as the years passed the ground beneath the streets began to get hotter and hotter even reaching 900 degrees fahrenheit in some locations by 1981 it was reported that even graves at the local cemetery had dropped into the fiery abyss and smoke had begun pouring out from large sinkholes developing across the town in 1992 the government bought the city out and it has since been officially abandoned apart from seven remaining residents who refused to leave to this day today the fire still burns and it's expected to continue burning for well over a hundred years more speaking of hot topics if you want to be the first to learn about some of the most amazing facts our world has to offer be sure to hit those like and subscribe buttons i put out new content every single day so hit the notification bell too so you don't miss out on anything alright now that that's out of the way let's check out some even more impossible looking places the fly geyser on the edge of blackrock desert nevada lies an alien looking structure that spews boiling hot water onto a bone-dry landscape but as natural as it may look it's actually man-made man-made by accident that is this is the fly geyser which began its life in the early 1900's after a well was drilled into the desert only the water that greeted the well diggers was scalding hot it was a geothermal water source one that was heated to about 200 degrees fahrenheit by the heat of earth's extra spicy insides this made it pretty unsuitable for things like irrigation or drinking so workers decided to cap it off to prevent it leaking hot water everywhere but in 1964 water began erupting in multiple places after a second well was dug too close to the first these eruptions started off as a series of small geysers but today the largest of them measures almost six feet in height the mesmerizing structures keep growing thanks to the calcium carbonate mineral deposits in the water which solidify along the sides as the water shoots up but minerals aren't just responsible for the fly geyser's height the incredibly colorful orange green and yellow streaks are partially down to the mineral deposits too though much of the color comes from algae attracted to the hot wet conditions if only all accidents look this pretty gobekli tepe here's a question how did our ancestors create a society according to experts first they invented farming then they invented buildings and permanent settlements and finally religion and culture emerged for centuries this has been the secret recipe to understanding of how early man evolved that was until gobekli tepe was discovered and brought the entire timeline into question a few miles from the city of urfa in turkey the remains of this 12 thousand year old temple can be found as you can see many of the remaining pillars have intricate images carved into them like this lion are these vultures scorpions and whatever this thing is some kind of lazy dodo anyway experts believe that this was a place of worship and it predates neolithic structures like stonehenge by at least 6 000 years but here's where it gets kind of impossible it was built before any human farming took place in the region how could these ancient people have gone from being hunter-gatherers to devoted worshippers without the critical step of forming settlements to farm their own food supply first wouldn't it have been impossible for a non-agricultural community to have the time and resources to devote to a project like this these questions have escaped a definitive answer for over a decade theory suggests gobekli tepe is some kind of ceremonial memorial spot or possibly a spiritual side at which worthy hunters could overcome their fears of the beast sharing their territory other theories come in enormous varieties with some alternative thinkers theorizing that the site is evidence of civilizations emerging much earlier than the current consensus but what do you think gobekli tepe means for our understanding of human history let me know in the comments down below the hesterlin lights when you see a mysterious ball of light in the sky what's the first thing you think it is a plane a satellite maybe even aliens with all those possibilities in mind what do you think this might be [Music] horrible that excited norwegian chatter pointing out the strange lights in the sky was captured in hesterlin norway but this isn't a one-off there have actually been hundreds of sightings over the years of these pestilent lights according to a technical report they started appearing in 1981 and manifest in a number of different shapes formations and even speeds after much analysis and with so much footage to explore researchers have concluded that the lights don't appear to be simply overhead planes or reflected car headlights so what's causing them to appear here well scientists believe that they might be ion coulomb crystals a type of cold matter that forms in temperatures of near absolute zero this process is capable of kicking out a lot of colorful light but that's not the disturbing part scientists exploring a location where signings are common found an increased level of radiation coming from the rocks below it's possible that radiation is involved with the phenomena presenting a potential danger to those attempting to observe the lights if radiation might be what's at play and i never thought i'd say this but let's all hope that it is aliens after all lake cottache would you be tempted to take a dip in this beautiful looking lake if you did take the plunge it might be one of the last things you ever did that's because this is the deadly lake karachay found in central russia it has served as a dumping ground for radioactive waste since the 1950s with deadly effects the pollution became so bad that the lake bed had to be covered with concrete blocks to prevent contaminated particles from infiltrating the underground water supply but that was only after alarming numbers of local residents began reporting severe radiation sickness the sheer amount of toxic waste floating about in lake cartache's waters and gathering at its shores make it one of the most polluted places in the world it even won a guinness world record for world's most contaminated lake probably not an award to be particularly proud of but i think we need a little more perspective here as to just how dangerous lake cartache is the radioactive meltdown at chernobyl which is one of the worst nuclear disasters of all time emitted between 50 million and 185 million curies of radioactive waste in comparison lake cottache has accumulated approximately 120 million curies worth of radioactivity which ain't no small sum some parts of it are so radioactive that you would receive a lethal dose of radiation from just 30 minutes of exposure so unless agonizing death is your idea of a great friday night this lake is not worth taking a dip the nazca lines have you ever tried to draw a picture with your eyes closed it's pretty hard to get something like that right without having any kind of wider perspective but this wasn't something that bothered the creators of the nazca lines that's in a zca not nascar before all the petrol heads get the wrong idea these giant geometric shapes called geoglyphs were etched four to six inches deep into the deserts of peru around 2500 years ago from above as you can see here they look amazing but here's where it gets interesting some of these geoglyphs measure up to 1200 feet long with many of the features perfectly aligned so how were they able to create such huge images with lines so perfectly straight without the technology to look down at their work they couldn't fly and they certainly didn't have satellites so how were they able to draw them this well it's a mystery that has evaded a concrete answer so thoroughly that in the 1970s some alternative thinkers even proposed that aliens were responsible for the markings the likelihood is however that these were forms of worship to the gods of the heavens above often interpreted as a call for rain in the arid lands they may have used reference carvings and sticks joined with string to mark out their etchings to the gods on such large scales that doesn't make it any less impressive of course but to humor the ufo community even if they were alien in origin why would little green men fly all the way to earth just to draw pictures of things like monkeys and birds in a desert if that were the case what do you think they'd be trying to communicate to us let me know in the comments below earth's protective bubble prepare for this to sound more like fiction than science but according to nasa humans have accidentally created a cosmic shield around the earth using radio technology but before you go reaching for the tinfoil hats and start torching 5g towers let's break this amazing discovery down a little nasa believes that very low frequency radio waves our vlfs have created a bubble of protection around the earth protecting us from some radioactive particles floating around in space vlfs appear to exert a force on these particles diverting them further away from earth itself contributing to a protective bubble for us down below while you may not have heard of vlfs before they're used regularly in specific types of radio communications that's because thanks to their ultra low frequencies they have the unique ability to penetrate deep into the oceans helping vehicles like submarines communicate with dry land as a side effect they're also powerful enough to travel far out into the space environment surrounding earth and exert their effects which results in the happy accident of protecting humanity it certainly beats the usual type of unexpected surprise that comes from space you know like apocalyptic asteroids and aliens with an unrelenting passion for probing the mud volcano ever heard of a mud volcano while it sounds like something you might find in the bathroom of a taco bell the reality is even more severe the sidorojo mud volcano erupted from the ground in east java back in 2006 and continues to erupt even now unlike normal volcanoes mud volcanoes don't spew out molten hot lava but usually a much colder mixture of gas water and solids usually mud volcanoes grow slowly but at its peak this never-ending stream of dirt spewed out over 6 million cubic feet of mud every day so in just 24 hours it spewed out enough to fill an olympic sized swimming pool 72 times over over the years these mud flows have displaced more than 40 000 people caused nearly 3 billion dollars in damage and consumed nearby buildings in layers of mud but what caused such a violent eruption well no one's entirely sure though most fingers currently point to oil and gas company pt lupendo brontes the organization had been in the middle of a gas drilling project about 650 feet away from the eruption which is believed to have ruptured underground gas reserves kick-started the volcano others meanwhile believe it was caused by a buildup of pressure from an earthquake that happened several days previously either way can you imagine losing everything you own to wet sloppy stinking mud almost makes hurricane season seem like a pleasant summer's day the cocoon trees arachnophobes cover your eyes and ears now because i'm about to pour out a serious serving of eight-legged nightmare fuel and 2010 floods devastated pakistan but humans weren't the only ones forced to relocate millions of spiders were forced to leave their low-lying webs and climb into the trees these arachnids were just trying to survive like everyone else but in looking for shelter they ended up cocooning the trees in thick yet weirdly spectacular webs while spiders were pointed out as the main culprit for the peculiar webs many other insects like moth larva are also believed to have contributed but pakistan's not the only place where this cocooned conundrum has been observed australia the land where just about everything can kill you also saw a similar reaction from their nation's creepy crawlies during the 2012 floods in wagga wagga see all that stuff blanketing the fields that's not netting for protecting crops it's all spider webs these spiders from the lenny feedy family are known for releasing strands of web into the wind to help them glide away when they're in danger or needing to relocate which means standing in that web covered field could soon see you coated in an army of flying spiders seeking refuge i think i'll stick to the mud volcano thank you the ringing rocks unlike most stones the boulders and pebbles of upper eddy pennsylvania are musical in nature once drunk with a hammer some of the rocks found in the area's 7-acre boulder field will ring out with a clear bell-like tone just take a listen pretty weird right it created so much intrigue that in 1965 a group of scientists cracked open several of them to figure out what made them tick or more accurately ring they discovered that all of the rocks were capable of the ringing noise but some rang out at tones so low they couldn't be picked up by human hearing some theorize that the bell-like properties come from the unique processes of freezing and thawing that form the rocks but the specifics remain shrouded in mystery still thanks to the various tones and frequencies each of the rocks produces it means you can create a musical tune out of them listen [Music] although there's no solid explanation to how these sonorous stones ring the way they do they certainly bring a new meaning to the phrase rock concert the stairway to heaven here's a question for you how do you farm food when you live on the side of a mountain well here's one very creative answer but while it may look like a work of art it's actually a photo not a painting these are the rice terraces of china's yonyang county home to a type of farming brought to the area around 2500 years ago by the hani people often described as the stairway to heaven the cut of the terraces reaches around 6 500 feet above sea level it's an ingenious solution that transformed the mountain's rugged terrain into fertile land all by carving out individual rice paddies and layers once the rice is planted these terraces are then flooded to start the rice growing process as the rice matures farmers will lower the level of water by releasing it to terraces below when it's time for the rice to be harvested farmers will drain a terrace completely by removing parts of the barriers letting water flow from the higher terrace to a lower one if you ask me that just sounds like a recipe for the ultimate water slide 40 winksville for several years the residents of kolachi a village in kazakhstan were plagued by a terrifying and mysterious disease kolache's residents would suddenly fall asleep and remain unconscious for days starting in 2012 residents began exhibiting this unusual illness with many also reporting severe hallucinations and memory loss over the course of several months hundreds fell victim to this impossible plague and even a local cat began suffering from the sleeping sickness the phenomenon became such a problem that the police and local government authorities were forced to investigate was it a new form of drug had the water been poisoned perhaps it was some kind of bio weapon with test after test of the area coming back negative including radioactivity tests scientists racked their brains for an explanation before stumbling upon a significant lead blood tests from those suffering with the sickness revealed higher than normal concentrations of carbon monoxide which was hindering the delivery of oxygen to vital organs like the brain that's when the government began pointing its finger at a nearby abandoned uranium mine which was supposedly leaking out high levels of carbon monoxide and poisoning the town while many accepted the explanation scientists were quick to point out holes in the theory the mines had been inactive since the early 90s and carbon monoxide is usually the product of combustion more importantly why was the sleeping sickness only affecting people now two decades after the closure of the mine with this vital question left mostly unanswered this village's sleeping sickness remains something of an anomaly maybe if we sleep on it we'll figure something out [Music] the blue volcano by day the top of kawa egen volcano in java indonesia looks like any other active volcano crater but by night something incredible happens the mountain comes alive with blue flames which are usually found at the summit 200 feet above sea level although it looks like blue lava is erupting from the peak what's really going on is equally incredible this enigmatic flame appears because the kawaii jin volcano has huge reserves of sulfur and gas liquid and solid form as pockets of gas escape from cracks and vents in the volcano sides they come into contact with oxygen in the atmosphere and are set alight by the volcano's heat unlike most fuels sulfur burns blue and at a low temperature creating these incredible sites that burn constantly but are only visible in darkness humans as you might expect have found a way to use this to their advantage sulfur deposits solidify into a yellowish-looking rock a material which is relatively easy to gather assuming you don't mind the toxic gas so that they're not always working in the harsh sunlight some miners will work by the eerie blue glow created by the fires at night but those toxic gases i mentioned which can emerge from the volcano's vents at hotter than 1100 degrees fahrenheit make it one of the most hazardous mining operations in the world would you brave a trip to this volcano to see the blue fire let me know in the comments below and while you're there why not light my fire by clicking those like and subscribe buttons it'll be your best decision of the past 10 minutes besides watching this video that is hoover dam defying gravity there's one huge tourist attraction in nevada that holds some damn unusual properties of its own the hoover dam was built to help control and harness the power of the colorado river and reaches a colossal 726 feet in height that's more than double the height of the statue of liberty but thanks to the unique construction of the canyon it has a few incredibly cool side effects just take a look at this that's right the water from that bottle just flew up so does hoover dam have secret anti-gravity technology in operation not quite the final structure of the dam directs went into a strong updraft that's powerful enough to blow the water upwards making it look like the liquid is defying gravity quite a few people have recorded themselves testing out this incredible phenomenon and experiencing a fair bit of splashback in the process are you one of the few who have tried this did it make you feel like the poseidon casually flexing at the gym of gods let me know in the comments below glass beaches when you hear the name glass beach you might think it comes from the waters being so still and calm that the ocean looks like glass but on the coast of fort bragg california it's a bit more literal than that because the entire shoreline is made up of broken sea glass with that in mind you might want to put your shoes on before you go running into these waves but how did something so wonderfully weird wash up in thousands of tiny pieces onto the shore well the truth is a little less magical than it looks the residents of fort bragg used to engage in sea dumping throwing away everything from their old kitchen appliances to glass bottles and even old cars into the coastal waves years in the surf has broken up many of the shattered glass pieces turning them into delightfully colored and smooth stones but it's not the only beach of its kind russia's usuri bay has a similar history having once been a dumping site for glass and other waste but as you can see the role of the waves has done a stunning job of transforming all that rubbish into a glistening coastline of colors along the vladivostok beaches now we just need to find a way to turn these kinds of dump sites into glimmering wonderlands i think it'll probably take some work yet the door to hell looking out over the barren desert of turkmenistan the last thing you'd expect to see is a massive gaping crater filled with fire and yet the fiery davarza crater also known as the door to hell is a very real nightmare that looks like it's been punched straight into the calm desert scenery is this really a gateway into the molten hot pits of hell fortunately it's not as you can see that it's only about 100 feet deep but it does have an interesting backstory almost 50 years ago back in 1971 it's believed that a soviet drilling operation went horribly wrong and opened up the giant crater measuring 225 feet wide the soviets were allegedly drilling for natural gas a resource turkmenistan is famous for and the stream of gas being released from the newly formed pit presented serious issues terrified that a buildup of gas could poison the locals or even cause a huge explosion they tried to burn it off but what they weren't prepared for was the sheer amount of gas working its way through the ground and sustaining the burn long beyond expectations with seemingly enormous gas reserves the crater's expected burn time of a mere few weeks continues nearly four decades later however mysteriously there are no official incident reports or records for the area dating back to the time the incident that sparked the phenomenon supposedly took place so while those origins are widely accepted there's no official story as to how this crater came to be maybe the devil really did just forget to close the door behind him would probably explain a lot of the stuff happening in 2020 has anyone got a 225 foot wide cork so we can plug this hellhole and keep whatever the next disaster is at bay for a while hit me up which of these places leaves you the most bewildered have you been to any of these spots yourself let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching

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Published: Mon Sep 14 2020