Bizarre mysteries

Forde said:
Aokigahara is spooky
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It is but its not really a mystery.....its just a place people seem to go to kill themselves....its still behind the golden gate bridge for suicides, its just the fact its a forest that makes it spooky.
 
Coral Castle is one of my favourites, it hardly ever gets mentioned.

It's basically an unusual structure in the US comprising of an enclosed arrangement of many very heavy stones, some weighing over 30 tonnes.

The unusual thing about it is that it was built by only one man.

Edward spent over 28 years building the Coral Castle, refusing to allow anyone to view him while he worked. A few teenagers claimed to have witnessed his work, reporting that he had caused the blocks of coral to move like hydrogen balloons. The only tool that Leedskalnin spoke of using was a "perpetual motion holder."

The stones are fastened together without any mortar. They are simply set on top of each other using their immense weight to keep them together. However, the craftsmanship detail is so skillful that the stones are connected with such precision that no light passes through the joints. The 8-foot (2.4 m) tall vertical stones that make up the perimeter wall have a uniform height. Even with the passage of decades and a direct hit on August 24, 1992 by the Category 5 Hurricane Andrew, which leveled everything in the area, the stones have not shifted.

What is most remarkable about the contents of the Coral Castle is the massive size of the stones used throughout the construction, all the more remarkable when one considers that a single man assembled the entire site using only primitive tools. With few exceptions, the objects are made from single pieces of stone that weigh on average 15 short tons (14 t) each. The largest stone weighs 30 short tons (27 t) and the tallest stones are two monolithic stones standing 25 ft (7.6 m) high each
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

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Coral Castle....I have just had a read and I really didn't find it overly interesting?

Am I missing something.
 
The Tunguska one was accepted mostly as an asteroid that exploded above the ground as it flew in.

On 30 June 1908, 2,100 square kilometres (800 square miles) of forest were devastated by a mysterious fireball, which originated over a desolate region in Siberia. The night sky was lit by an eerie glow for days over a vast area. In western Europe, people were able to read newspapers at night without lights. Indications of the cause had been recorded on seismographs in Irkutsk, Siberia, which pointed to an earthquake 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) north of the city in a remote area called Tunguska.

It was not until 19 years after the explosion that Leonid Kulik, the founder of Russian meteorite science, organised the first scientific expedition to the site, spurred on by reports from Tungus nomads of fallen and burned trees. Suspecting the culprit to be a large meteorite, Kulik's expedition began a search in Tunguska for a large crater containing a huge meteorite, but all they found were millions of dead trees, lying flat and pointing in the same direction away from the original blast. Kulik followed the dead trees until he came to a low depression around a mile across. This was the epicentre of the blast.

Kulik made three more expeditions to the site, but could find no actual crater and no
sign of a meteorite. Whatever had caused this disaster seemed to have vanished.

Today, most scientists believe that there was indeed an impact from space at Tunguska but, rather than leaving a crater, the celestial body exploded in the atmosphere. The blast from this explosion, of an object that weighed perhaps 100,000 tonnes, felled the trees in a pattern not dissimilar to that of the wings of a butterfly, which is consistent with laboratory simulations of these 'airbursts'.
Opinion is still divided on the exact nature of the object itself, and it now seems most likely that it was a stony asteroid, but there is a chance it was a fragment of an icy comet nucleus. Whatever exploded in the air above this remote area, it seems we were quite lucky. Had it exploded above a major city, the casualties would have numbered at least half a million people. Astronomers now estimate that there are around 2,000 Earth-crossing asteroids at least a kilometre across, which could theoretically hit us. An impact of a one-kilometre (half-mile) asteroid could wipe out one quarter of the world's population.
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http://www.astronomy-education.com/index.php?page=135

Lab experiments mimicked the burst patterns so all that's left to question is comet or asteroid :p




The animal like noises from the deep sea fascinate me though, what if it's a new species of sea creature, so big that lives so deep!

We've still not been to the depths of the oceans yet so who knows.
 
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RDM said:
Pretty sure I saw something recently on this in that it was probably latter stage hypothermia. You begin to feel really warm as the body starts keeping all the heat your core areas and so in delusion you remove clothing. Delirium sets in, you wander off and freeze to death.
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But the part that can't be explained (as pauLAW mentioned) is that some of them had injuries such as broken ribs and/or fractured skulls caused from similar forces to that of a car crash but yet somehow managed to leave no external physical signs that they had any injuries at all. Even if it was a result of hypothermia, would it affect all of them at exactly the same time in exactly the same way? With them being experienced climbers would they not know what the early signs of hypothermia are? I'm no expert on hypothermia but it just doesn't answer all the questions in my opinion.

Something forced them to leave the tents in a hurry, to the point where they ripped/cut a new door in the tent to hasten their exit. They all ran for the woods where they lit a fire (suggesting that they were feeling cold rather than warm) and climbed a tree, then something happened to split the group up, one group tried to go back to the tent but died on the way, the other group went and sheltered/hid in a ravine where they eventually died. I know there's other reported aspects which may or may not have been fabricated; such as orange skin, radiation and orange spheres in the sky, but the basic story of it is very strange indeed. I'm a bit of a wild camper myself so a story like that naturally attracts me. :p

Great thread, lots of stuff in here I hadn't heard of, thanks a lot to those that posted the various links. :)

I find the Hollow Earth theory totally mind-blowing and something which I had never even considered, I'm off to look into that one a bit further. One possibly connected theory which I found while reading about the Hollow Earth is that of the Giant Humans - god knows what to believe about that! More reading and watching to come I think. :p
 
A few teenagers claimed to have witnessed his work, reporting that he had caused the blocks of coral to move like hydrogen balloons. The only tool that Leedskalnin spoke of using was a "perpetual motion holder."
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That's really similar to the mavity gun in half life, it's even called a Zero Point Energy Manipulator. How bizzare. I wonder if they were inspired by that? :S
 
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Amp34 said:
Not really a mystery though. :p

Interesting none the less for the processes involved in gas exploration.
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I know. :p

But still find it bizarre as they just thought, "oh lets throw a match in there and see what happens" and its still burning gas to this day. :o ;)
 
Yeah, but I guess that was the easiest way...

Either way I'm sure they will have an idea of how much gas is actually in that reservoir, no matter what that article says as it's a standard thing to do before/whilst you drill.

They probably drilled somewhere else in that formation to take gas out as well.
 
pauLAW said:
Coral Castle....I have just had a read and I really didn't find it overly interesting?

Am I missing something.
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The guy did it all on his own shifting rocks that were several tons each into places where he shouldn't have done.
He reckoned he had found the secrets of the Pyramid builders.
 
shoot1st said:
I find the Hollow Earth theory totally mind-blowing and something which I had never even considered, I'm off to look into that one a bit further. One possibly connected theory which I found while reading about the Hollow Earth is that of the Giant Humans - god knows what to believe about that! More reading and watching to come I think. :p
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Ummm.... is this part a joke?? I hope so!

Because I'm a Geologist and if you aren't joking you might as well defecate on my degree certificate haha!
 
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