Most Mysterious Places On The Earth!
- FYI
- Aug 1, 2020
- 5 min read
Updated: Aug 8, 2020
Sure, our lovely planet is crammed with these places that are uncanny, beautiful and sometimes downright weird. Whilst many of these puzzling hustle and bustle have valid explanations, others still stays unsolved.
From North to South, from Antarctica to India, the world is full of unusual places. Here’s a few of those Mysterious places on the earth which might be strange to our world yet amazing:
1) Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming, US
Since 1870 i.e. approx.150years, Old Faithful has been consistently erupting the hot water every 50 to 90 minutes, recording more than 100,000 eruptions so far. IN EVERY 90 MINUTES, on a wooden boardwalk, all the tourists gathers to witness a steam coming out of a crack in the ground. Shortly after, a massive about 184 ft high fountain of water erupts for almost 90 seconds.
Theory suggests that, the water is getting heated somehow and burst out at regular intervals but in the end the exact mechanics of how exactly the predictable geyser functions continued to be a mystery.
2) Dragon’s Triangle or Devil’s sea, Or Ma-No Umi- Japan
Just like Bermuda Triangle Devil’s sea, a region located near South Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean has been in the limelight since many years for unsolved occurrences of disappearing of ships.
After all the paranormal incidences of vanishing of the ships and people, the Japanese local named the sea as “MA-NO UMI” which means “Sea of the devil”.
Similarly, “Dragon” in the name comes from the Chinese legend about dragon’s existence below the water surface. As per these, the dragons beneath attack the vessels crossing over to appease their hunger. These stories are said to be coined before the AD period – 1000 BC era.
Despite of few scientific theories and the myths around the sites’s existence, this mysterious place is an evidence that a few wonders in the world are far beyond our control.
3) Lake Anjikuni Village, Canada
On a cold night of November 1930, a tired and lone Canadian trapper Joe Labelle went to Inuit village that he knew of, seeking shelter. To his incredulity, he discovered that the entire village had disappeared. Labelle didn’t find a single person or their footprints in the snow. Their huts were empty and their food, arms, clothing everything was abandoned in the house. He also discovered a pack of dogs starved to death was buried in the snow and the graves were excavated and laid empty. Sudden disappearance of the entire village caught an eye of many back then. There are still a lot of conflicts and theories around this case.
The case handling authority stated that their records show no mention of such an occurrence ever and a few say even after a lot of investigation, all 2,000 Intuits were never seen again and thus the mystery remains.
4) Whale Bone Alley, Siberia
In 1976 Soviet archaeologists found tons of close to 600 years old whale bones, mainly jawbones, ribs, and vertebrae emerging from the ground, in a double line parallel to the seashore.
Based in the remote pristine wilds of Siberia, Whale Bone Alley is thought to be created by Eskimos established in what is now Chukotka, where Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich was formerly the governor.
Investigators believe that the place was built as a place of mutual worship and ritual for the combined tribes. There also some remains of a sacred site which can be seemed near the bottom of the “alley,” and the meat pits were supposed to store food for the assembled crowd. However, the as per the locals, many of whom are descended from the civilizations which formed the site states that Whale Bone Alley was more of get-together place where all the hunters could meet and slaughter their catch as a group and celebrate.
In the end, after more than three decades the site is still as strange and fascinating as ever. The Siberian Times has reported - many overseas tourists are quickly turning it into one of the "en vogue" archaeological wonders of the world.
5) Fairy circles – Namibian, Africa
Located In the grasslands of southern Africa, several round barren patches of land which is known as ‘fairy circles’ has also garnered a lot of attention from researchers across the globe. These marks on the ground looks like a huge uniform sheet of polka dots. They develop say about 2-15m in diameter and arise in the middle of grassy vegetation precisely in Namibia but can be found in Angola too.
According to the few local legends, these barren red circles embellished with grass are footprints of the gods. As per the other theory, the patches of land were poisoned by the breath of a dragon lying underneath. Whilst a few say that this is caused by radioactive soil, termites, ants or toxins put away by the Damara euphoria—a venomous endemic plant.
Amongst scientists, there have been many theories about the formation of Fairy circles, but no theory has been able to explain why the patterns are so consistent
6) Crooked Forest, Poland
Krzywy las or Crooked Forest found near the town of Gryfino near the Polish and German border. The mysterious forest which was formed in 1930, consists of 400 unusually shaped pine trees that almost look like a letter “J”.
Many theories about the Forest’s existence:
One of the hypothesis says that the local foresters moulded the pine trees to make barrels, sleds and ships easier.
Other theory suggests, the German army which invaded Poland in 1939, shaped and bent those trees so intensely that they started to grow in a weird angle.
Our personal favourite states that the trees were distorted by the ufo that landed in this particular area of the forest.
Some say that force of heavy snowfall weighed down the growing trees, due to which trees develop oddly at the base, but this does not answer why other pine trees and various vegetation in the same locality were not affected.
Some theories states, the Northward curves are due to a gravitational pull in this specific region however this theory does not support the basic science law according to which gravity pulls things down and not at a curve.
In spite of several theories, the mystery about how and why these trees were bent still remains.
7) Island of the Dolls, Mexico
Located in Xochimilco - Mexico City, “the Island of the Dolls” is an island full of decaying old dolls strung up in trees is one of the main attractions in Mexico and one of the spookiest place in the world.
Owner of the island then, Don Julián Santana, discovered a body of a young girl, drowned in the lake and a floating doll on the shores of his island. The place was named during the 1950s when the owner began to hang them as protection against evil spirits.
In 2001, Don passed away and his body was found in the same place where he said he had seen the little girl. In response, even until today the tourists honor both Don and the girl by hanging the dolls in tribute.
The question about the little girl’s existence and Don’s death still remains unanswered.
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