This article will focus on the remarkable natural formations bearing names associated with the Devil and located in the United States. All of them are considered mysterious places where mysterious and frightening phenomena occur.
Devil's canyon
The southwestern United States, Arizona, has one of the largest canyons in the world.
It is a giant earthen bowl 1200 meters in diameter and 180 meters deep.
Presumably, the crater appeared more than 40 thousand years ago, and a 50-meter meteorite helped it to form, which fell to Earth. Its weight was 300 thousand tons, and it flew at a speed of 45-60 thousand km / h. When the meteorite fell, an explosion occurred, which can only be compared with the explosion of 1000 atomic bombs, similar to those dropped on Hiroshima.
Fragments of meteorite iron can still be found around the canyon. Even before the time when scientists knew about this area, the canyon was often visited by Indians who lived earlier.
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They came to make spears and tools for themselves from the fragments of the meteorite. Local tribes have a huge number of legends and stories associated with this sacred place.
There are legends that near the Devil's Canyon almost every night you can observe the glow of the air and often UFO hovers over the canyon, and the locals talk about mysterious geomagnetic anomalies inside the crater.
It is all these various fantastic stories that gave the name to the canyon, which is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year.
More recently, a museum was built near the canyon, which contains photographs of all "lunar" astronauts in full space clothing. But no one even realizes that all these pictures were taken not on the Moon, but in Devil's Canyon.
Devil's ring
In Pennsylvania, along the Delaware River, in Bucks and Franklin Counties, there is a mysterious and frightening mountainous area called the Devil's Ring, Stone Garden or Ringing Rocks. The rocks here really have a voice of their own.
Bringing superstitious horror to everyone who happens to hear this, from time to time they begin to "sing" spontaneously, making ringing sounds in a very wide range of heights and loudness - from barely audible howls to trumpets and bells. Moreover, a person experiences uncontrollable fear among these rocks, even if they are silent.
To hear the sound of these stones yourself, you need to hit them with a hammer.
This is the only place on Earth where such phenomena have been recorded.
Except for the singing colossi of Memnon.
But those, firstly, are man-made sculptures of the ancient Egyptians, and secondly, their phenomenon is explained in a simpler way: the wind of the desert finds loopholes in the crumbling monuments and, breaking through the cracks, emits chilling sounds. Maybe something similar is happening with the Ringing Rocks.
Scientists who honestly tried to solve the riddle of nature became interested in the devil's ring, but could not come to a consensus. They studied the external and internal structure of the rocks, their shape and size, but they did not reveal anything special. “Musical abilities”, according to them, are equally possessed in this strange place by both individual cobblestones and huge blocks of indefinite shape weighing up to several tons.
The assumption was experimentally verified that dense homogeneous, fine-grained rocks - quartzite, rhyolite and basalt, of which those rocks are composed - are ringing, but it was not confirmed. And no one has yet put forward other versions.
Scientists could not explain the origin of the reddish-brown color of the tops of the Ringing Rocks, which sharply contrast with the neighboring mountains, which seem to consist of the same lithological material. American researcher Ivan T. Sanderson discovered another anomaly in the Devil's Ring area.
He found a strange plateau with an area of 28 km2 surrounded by a dense ring of forest 15 meters high.
Trees, grass and shrubs are everywhere you look.
But this plateau is like a bald patch, on which there is not even a hint of flora or fauna - no signs of the vital activity of even the most primitive living organisms, not to mention the traces of animals common to mountains and forests. In their reports, Sanderson and his companions noted that, every time they set foot on the plateau, they experienced a sense of animal fear.
Devil's hole
In the deserted area of Nevada, there is a unique formation - a deep crevice called the Devil's Hole. Legends say that this is a window to the underworld, in other words, to the underworld.
A hole through which an evil spirit comes to visit us when he plans to create some dirty trick on the earth. The devil, you have to understand.
However, for such an important person the word “hole” sounds somehow disrespectful.
Probably more suitable here, say, the Devil's Gate.
Geologists believe that the mysterious sinkhole to the "center of the Earth", the true depth of which no one has yet been able to measure, is a gap that arose on a fault in the earth's crust, where two tectonic plates were not too tightly fitted to each other. The dimensions of the slit-hole on the scale of the planet are small - only 9 x 12 meters at the surface.
But its depth is impressive. Below 120 meters from the surface, the crevice is filled with groundwater, which formed an underground lake in this place.
What is the depth of the lake itself is unknown. It is possible that the crevice goes into the bowels of the planet deeper than the famous Kola superdeep well.
It is even more interesting further.
Researchers have recorded abnormal levels of heavy hydrogen, deuterium, in calcite deposits on the walls of the sinkhole.
But natural heavy hydrogen is the basis of “heavy water”, in which, as you know, nothing living can exist. Even plant seeds do not germinate in it.
And if an animal is given such water to drink, it will simply die of thirst. But here's the paradox: in the underground lake of the Devil's Holes, not unicellular and not worms, but rare species of fish, live and breed quietly.