Top 20 Creepiest Things Found Frozen in Ice

you never know what you're gonna find hidden in the frozen Tundras of the world welcome to watchmojo.com bizarre things that have been found frozen and preserved in ice number 20 life forms in a sub glacial lake life really does seem to find a way lake vostok is a massive sub glacial lake found in antarctica located beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet the lake has been sealed away under 13,000 100 feet of ice for millions of years Russian scientists say they've drilled through more than 12,000 feet of Antarctic ice to reach a submerged lake one that has been sealed off for 20 million years they tout the accomplishment as being on par with the 1960s race to the moon that means no sunlight unimaginably freezing temperatures and immense physical pressure from the surface yet studies of ice cores have concluded that the lake could be home to exotic microbes NASA's chief scientist says the knowledge gained could transform the way we think about life in fact one team found evidence of over 3,500 species it's theorized that this little society lives on its own recycled carbon however the results are debated with other scientists believing that the samples were contaminated here you see the first image at the bottom of sublation Lake Whillans a very fine sediment formed by the movement of the glacier over rocks number 19 a Martian meteorite on December 27 1984 a team from the Antarctic search for meteorites found a small fragment of Martian rock buried in the ice now known as Allan hills 84001 the meteorite weighs just over four pounds and is estimated to a formed from molten rock over four billion years ago this meteorite had some glass inclusions in it and when they picked those glass particles out and degassed them by heating they got a sample of the Martian atmosphere said meteorite made national headlines in 1996 when scientists claimed to have found fossils of microscopic bacteria within the rock which seemingly confirmed that there had once been life on Mars however this claim was enormous ly controversial within the wider scientific community and was ultimately rejected due to a lack of substantial evidence I am determined that the American space program will put its full intellectual power and technological prowess behind the search for further evidence of life on Mars life or no a four billion year old rock from Mars is still pretty creepy on its own number 18 an entire mountain range located in East Antarctica is the sub glacial gunports of mountain range discovered by Soviet geophysicist Gregory Gunn bourtsev they're said to be the same size as the Alps they tower roughly 9,000 feet high and run for about 750 miles [Music] the only thing is you can't actually see the mountains themselves as they're buried under 2,000 feet of ice we don't know about you but we find the concept of an entire mountain range buried under 2,000 feet of ice weirdly disturbing the earth really is a fascinating place isn't it number 17 sacrificed Incan children in 1999 three mummies were found at the icy summit of you Yakko a stratovolcano located in the Atacama Desert these mummies are known as the children of you Yakko and they could be the best preserved mummies in the entire world virgins of the Sun were famous throughout the Inca Empire chronicles record that a special group were chosen each year to serve the Sun God one is the body of a teenage girl and the other two are children believed to be around six and seven years old some could be of a fairly young age that could be six to eight years some may be 10 years their beauty was one of the reasons for selecting them and in some cases even their parents might have offered them it's assumed that they're the victims of a human sacrifice meant to ensure a rich harvest and that they were killed around the Year 1500 they were heavily drugged with alcohol and coca placed five feet underground while asleep and left to die a combination of the freezing temperatures and extremely dry air have helped preserve their bodies for centuries it was if we were afraid at some level that we might wake this mummy up because she seemed just so alive number 16 Yuka the mammoth you know just imagine coming across the mummified corpse of a freaking woolly mammoth well that's exactly what happened to the local people of Yuka gear a village near the Laptev sea of Siberia a commentation yellow Tequesta for a mr. Eltham unical national worker even the pasaron estate Kearney was a her honesty cottage next rock tour found in 2010 the mammoth died approximately 39,000 years ago even it's somewhere between six and eight years old it weighed roughly five tonnes it's now on display in Moscow and it is quite creepy to say the least you can clearly make out its face and stringy strands of light brown hair still cling to its body it considered to be the best-preserved mammoth in the world and we can certainly see why number 15 a body sadly we're not talking about an ancient mummy for this one in 2017 a hiker discovered a dead body in a crevasse on new zealand's fox glacier and contacted police while some believed the corpse was decades old the fact that it was found in a crevasse led glaciologist Andrew McIntosh to assume that it was no more than five years old his guess was correct further study found that the corpse was that of Cynthia Charlton a British woman who died in a helicopter accident in November 2015 she was one of the crashes seven victims which also included her husband number 14 Mexican climbers know here's a creepy story for you a climber on the slopes of Mexico's pico de orizaba slipped and came face to face with a mummified head and arm protruding from the snow an expedition to recover a mummified body buried in the snow in Mexico's tallest mountain his plan for early Thursday the mummified body was found by a group of hikers on March 1 on the north side of pico de orizaba that's how episodes of CSI start the authorities were called in and two more frozen mummies were eventually discovered the body skull and the hand were discovered when one of the mountain is approaching the summit fell about a hundred feet before joining an axe into this note an 81 year old named Luis Espinoza declared he knew the mummies as he was part of a tragic expedition that claimed three lives back in 1959 he recognized one of the men from his shirt and ring which was emblazoned with his initials it's certainly nice for Luis to finally get some peace but just imagine being the guy who found a mummified head sticking out of the snow number 13 the remains of Andres Arctic expedition in a late 19th century Swedish balloonist essay on Judea set out to reach the North Pole via hot-air balloon many experts claimed that this was a terrible idea but on today has optimism and nationalistic pride caused him to ignore their warnings there is nothing to understand once we get enough speed we'll be free of the earth this is that the dream of all humans he and two companions set off in July 1897 and were never heard from again it wasn't until 1930 that their remains were found by an expedition studying venire by glaciers included in the find was preserved photographic film allowing us to see the tragedy firsthand including photos of the crashed balloon the balloon had crashed just two days after liftoff and the men had trekked back south they died approximately three months later number twelve a preserved mummy head in 2017 archaeologists found mummies buried in the Zelan er burial site near the Russian town of celli cart they found two mummies one an adult woman and the other a baby these mummies are estimated to be 900 years old and are said to be part of an unknown medieval culture the interesting thing was that the female mummy is the only female in the burial ground leading some to assume that she was an elite member of society it's also interesting and creepy because only her head has been preserved on the head you can still see her hair and eyelashes and her face has a green tint due to the copper she was buried in number 11 three members of the Franklin expedition many are familiar with the ill-fated Franklin expedition from Dan Simmons novel the terror and it's television adaptation pull up the ropes and fill it in mistake three members of the expedition John Torrington William brain and John Hartnell passed away shortly after departure and before the ship's became stuck in the pack ice they were buried on beachy island Nunavut in 1846 and exhumed in 1984 over a century later in 1984 archeologists exhumed the bodies to try and work out how they died what anthropologists found were remarkably preserved corpses albeit incredibly disturbing ones their faces are contorted their eyes frozen open and their skin horribly frostbitten now imagine opening the coffins and seeing that number 10 ice caves and frozen waves we don't know if this is spectacular or oddly terrifying Iceland's Vantaa glacier is Europe's second largest ice cap covering roughly 8% of the country we're standing in the middle of the melting vana glacier and scattered all throughout this glacier are massive vertical sinkholes that are treacherous they go hundreds even thousands of feet into the earth it's quite a famous glacier and has been seen in many pieces of pop culture throughout the years including Game of Thrones and the James Bond film a view to a kill beneath a glacier are massive ice caves with ceilings and walls that look like giant waves frozen in time they are actually created by geothermal Springs it's surreal it's gorgeous but it's also kind of unsettling talk about feeling claustrophobic this satellite picture taken in 1986 and this 128 years later Iceland is melting and that water has to go somewhere number nine Otzi the Iceman XE is perhaps the most famous natural mummy in the world found in 1991 on the border of Austria and Italy dirt sea is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who died around 3300 BC I think the Iceman is so special because on the one hand he's perfectly preserved and he really gives us unique insights into this time that we don't know so much about the mummy was actually found by German tourists they were hiking along a mountain path in the earth style Alps when they found the upper half of the mummy sticking out of the ice jutting from the ice the head and bare shoulders of a human corpse his left arm twisted under his body leathery skin still covering his bones it's currently believed that the man bled to death after being struck by an arrow his skinny discolored and leathery looking body is now on display at Italy South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology it's very interesting to understand also that the past and where we came from and how they already were able to adapt to the environment how they managed to live and without all these modern technologies we have and so on number eight a mysterious pyramid in recent years archaeologists have found pyramids all over the world that had been lost for centuries mistaken as natural formations or hidden in the most unlikely places the internet was abuzz in 2016 when a mysterious pyramid like structure was photographed in Antarctica some people speculated that humans once inhabited Antarctica and built pyramids like the Egyptians and conspiracy theorists went straight to aliens if this dog annek pyramid in Antarctica is an artificial structure it would probably be the oldest pyramid on our planet it was creepy and it was intriguing even if we knew the explanation was gonna be boring and it was turns out that the pyramid was just the peak of a buried Mountain sticking out of the snow as the University of California's a Aquino hilariously and succinctly put it quote this is just a mountain that looks like a pyramid it's still kind of cool we guess just not as cool as an ancient Antarctic Society pure fiction the so-called pyramids in the Google Earth image or just mountains their pyramid like shape is called a [ __ ] number seven dinosaur bones it turns out that many dinosaur bones have been found in the frozen tundra of the Antarctic the first were discovered in 1986 by Argentinean geologists Eduardo Oliveira and Roberto SKA so who unearthed remains of an ankylosaur now known as the antarctic elta Olivera these bones were found on James Ross Island as where bones of a Trina Sora other dinosaurs found in Antarctica include those of Ag Lacey Allosaurus and the massive carnivore Cryolophosaurus but it's not like these dinosaurs were roaming an icy landscape rather than just small shards of bone eroded out of the rock they started finding large intact skeletons antarctica as we know it only formed about 25 million years ago long after the dinosaurs had gone extinct before that it was part of a super continent called Gondwana and was actually quite tropical number six ancient bacteria scientists digging in the Arctic permafrost of Alaska made a startling discovery in 2005 they found ancient bacteria that had been completely frozen in the ice for roughly 32,000 years and although it may look harmless enough this ice could be hiding a deadly secret cryogenically preserved bacteria and viruses that could be hundreds of thousands of years old to make matters even creepier this bacteria came back to life after being thawed with astrobiologist Richard Hoover claiming quote they immediately started swimming when the ice melted according to NASA this made the bacteria quote the first fully described validated species ever found alive in ancient ice the extremophiles are now known as carnal bacterium Pleistocene ium and they are absolutely terrifying they came back to life after 30,000 years here in the permafrost alive alive our Hani's material Optus lava the flora was a do it now comida here fabric as possible flight number five mysterious holes in 2016 and 2017 people around the world were creeped out when massive holes appeared in the Antarctic ice these holes were found in the Weddell Sea and one covered an area of 31,000 square miles making it roughly the size of Maine [Music] now that is one big hole experts deduce that this was Apple Enya which is a fancy term for a hole of open water in the middle of sea ice and while scientists knew what the hole was they didn't know how it got there as polynyas are typically found near the coast now known as the wet opal Enya it hadn't been seen since 1976 it was likely caused by an intense winter cyclone number four bloody looking water if this list proves anything it's that Antarctica is the place of the nightmares blood Falls is a bit of an obsession for a lot of people I mean there's nothing else like this on earth it's like this really visceral feature just jumps out at you where else can you find what looks like blood pouring out of the side of a glacier the area is fittingly named blood falls and it flows from Taylor glacier onto the surface of Lake Bonney the Falls were discovered in 1911 by Australian geologist Griffith Taylor Pince Taylor glacier after presumably freaking out Taylor attributed the blood to red algae so there's actually stuff living in the dirt oh yeah the lakes in the lake ice in the rocks there's actually worms in the dirt this microscopic worm is nematodes it was a good guess but the blood is actually just saltwater tainted with large amounts of iron oxide yep blood Falls is essentially just rusty water pouring from a glacier still horrifying though number three viruses one major fear of global warming is that it could release unknown pathogens into the air some of which may have the capacity to seriously hinder and endanger humanity in December 2016 a remote community in Siberia experienced a mysterious outbreak 90 people were hospitalized and a 12 year old boy died in 2015 researchers from China and the United States traveled to the gulia ice cap in Tibet and drilled a 164 foot hole into the ice to study samples what they found was positively nightmarish no less than 33 viruses 28 of which had never been seen by human eyes scientists worry that as permafrost melts it could unearth all sorts of diseases we thought we had under control according to environmental virologist Chantal a belgian quote we are very far from sampling the entire diversity of viruses on earth that's positively unsettling considering that 28 were found in a Tibetan glacier alone dr. Cheever I think I'm sick number two World War one soldiers during World War one allies battled the austro-hungarian Empire along the snowy mountains of the Alps thousands upon thousands of soldiers were killed by avalanches and the frigid temperatures which sometimes dipped to minus 22 Fahrenheit beginning in the early 2010's the mountain ice began to melt and started depositing long lost frozen artifacts around the area these included weapons still legible love letters and dozens of mummified corpses it's a horrifying symbol of one of the most frightening periods of modern history before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one the remains of a military transport aircraft in November of 1952 a military transport aircraft carrying 52 people crashed into Alaska's Chugach mountains rescue crews were sent to look for the aircraft and its tail was found sticking out of the snow on Mount Gannett at an elevation of 8,000 feet the crash had caused an avalanche and buried the wreckage and rescue efforts couldn't dig through the thick snow rescue was abandoned and the wreckage was lost for the next 60 years it wasn't until June 2012 that it was rediscovered by the Alaska Army National Guard while on a training mission they discovered the planes survival raft on colony glacier roughly 14 miles from the crash site this led to an investigation that uncovered the nearby wreckage do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos [Music]

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Published: Tue Apr 07 2020