Every year is a crazy span of time for one reason or another, and no one will deny it. Drug lords constantly manage to organize impossible escapes, Jon Snow from "Game of Thrones" is being reborn in a strange way, the most inexplicable objects that we have ever seen are constantly found in the oceans. It seems that we have everything to think about, it seems that we have nothing to surprise!
And the more time passes, the less chance we have of solving some of Earth's most mysterious mysteries. They accumulate for centuries! For example, 2016 is no different from all previous years, and a lot of unexplained things also happened in the world. Here are 10 secrets that prove our planet is a crazy place.
Space debris
It's no wonder that all kinds of space debris revolve around us. In fact, many of these items pose a real danger to astronauts and even the well-being of the Earth itself! In October 2016, scientists noticed a huge chunk of space debris and named it WT1190F. Everyone thought it would indeed enter the Earth's atmosphere and fall right into the Indian Ocean, but our Earth's shell is much stronger. The object was burned to the ground as soon as it approached the Earth in November last year, but one thing is not clear - scientists still do not know what it was! They think it could be a missile fragment, but they have no idea which one. It's still a mystery!
Where is Hayat Boumedienne now?
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The woman was charged in connection with the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris in January 2016. She was the wife of one of the three attackers who organized it all. While three of them were killed, Boumedienne escaped and her whereabouts are still unknown. Investigators believe that she went to Turkey and then went to Syria, where she is allegedly hiding from the authorities to this day. She is one of the most wanted criminals in the world!
A puzzle that's 8000 years old
Dmitry Dey noticed these geoglyphs when he searched for ancient pyramids using maps on the Internet. Scientists have no idea why they were built! The oldest of the objects was built 8,000 years ago, and many believe that they were used to track the movement of the sun. NASA was so taken aback by this discovery that it is now working to unravel the mystery while using the very latest technology.
El Chapo's great escape
No one thought it was possible to break out of the Altiplano maximum security prison, but the leader of the Mexican drug trade, Guzman, also known as El Chapo, made this impossible escape. He drilled a hole in the shower chamber and escaped on his bike through a specially made underground tunnel! He was in a safe place long before the guards noticed that he was missing. This story is TV show worthy! Its whereabouts remained a mystery for a long time, until it was recaptured in a raid by Mexican Marines.
Ghost ships filled with corpses
More than a dozen boats, which were filled with corpses, sailed to the northwestern shores of Japan. They were all filled with decaying bodies, but there was no evidence that they were killed and deliberately put into boats. The authorities could not understand the reason why the people on the wooden ships died, and were also unable to find out where the ships came from. Some of them bore the remains of the North Korean flag, but investigators are still unable to understand exactly what happened. The first boats appeared in 2013 and they are still arriving to the shores!
Life on the moon of Saturn
NASA's spacecraft Cassini ("Cassini") in October last year reached Saturn and its 62 satellites. A "brave" piece of space technology even made a daring dive into an icy eruption on Enceladus, one of the planet's satellites, which is an extraterrestrial ocean. It is a shame that Cassini is not equipped with gadgets that can detect life forms.
120,000 antelopes died in just two weeks
More than a third of the entire population of antelopes became extinct in Kazakhstan in just two weeks. This is the biggest and most tragic incident of its kind! Scientists still do not know what caused this, although it may have all happened due to significant biological and environmental problems. Many blame rocket fuel and noise pollution that have been caused by many space rocket launches.
What happened to flight MH370?
Back in March 2014, a Boeing 777 took off on its flight MH370 from the capital of Malaysia and disappeared from the radar. The fact that the plane could disappear with all modern technology has shocked the entire world. A tiny piece of this aircraft recently appeared off the coast of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. Investigators believe it is part of a flaperon from an airplane. However, where the rest of this huge aircraft is is still unknown!
Siberian gaps
Something really strange has been discovered on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia. An inexplicable explosion created a 100-meter hole. After some time, several more failures appeared. Scientists believe that gas explosions may be the cause of these holes. But they still don't know what exactly triggered these holes. They even sent a team to investigate one of these holes to confirm their theories, but alas! They still can't prove anything.
What is hidden under Stonehenge?
Good old Stonehenge still has a few aces up its sleeve. New technologies for underground mapping have revealed something really strange - it looks like shrines, pits and mounds, which are more than 5,000 years old, are hidden under the ruins of Stonehenge. Historians have always believed that this is an autonomous structure, but new research changes everything! This new information could completely change what we know about the Stonehenge complex.
Victoria Ivashura