Everyone knows Wikipedia: schoolchildren copy abstracts from it, students select materials for term papers, older comrades are looking for arguments for Internet disputes. However, hardly anyone seriously thought about reading Wikipedia just for fun. Well, in vain! On its pages you can read about such things and phenomena, the existence of which will amaze you to the core!
Coral castle
Coral Castle in Florida is a fantastic limestone structure with a garden full of stone megaliths and fantastic sculptures weighing up to 30 tons. The castle was built with his own funds in the 1930s by the Latvian emigrant Edward Lidskalnin. But the Coral Castle amazes not only with its unusual beauty, but also with a mystery: how did Lidskalnin manage to move huge blocks? He himself claimed to have discovered the principles of levitation. They did not believe him, but they still haven’t found another answer.
Cicada 3301
A mysterious organization that publishes strange and sinister puzzles on the internet. Her work is called "the most complex and mysterious mysteries of the Internet era." Rumor has it that the CIA is behind the Cicada 3301, thus recruiting performers for hacking and similar dark deeds.
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Planet Nibiru
According to rumors, Nibiru is another planet in the solar system, moving in an elongated orbit and crossing the Earth's orbit every 3600 years. Some legend lovers even claim that intelligent beings live on it, but this is not the main thing. The main thing is that now Nibiru is moving towards Earth, and our planet is threatened with a collision with it, which scientists cannot prevent. True, scientists themselves consider this a pseudoscientific nonsense … but maybe they are hiding something?
Utsuro-bune
Utsuro-bune in Japanese means "hollow ship." According to legend, in 1803, on the east coast of the country, waves washed ashore a strange ship made of copper and glass. On it was a beautiful woman who, however, did not know a word of Japanese. Then she swam back out to sea. Ufologists believe that this parable is a story about a meeting with representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization, while scientists consider it to be just folklore.
Scape Or Swamp Lizard Man
They say this photo was taken in South Carolina. On it is a lizard-man, a humanoid creature that is hunted no less than the Yeti. Its body is covered not with skin, but with scales, like that of a lizard, and it grew - about two meters! They say he lives in the swamps of South Carolina and, unexpectedly diving up, attacks cars, leaving furrows on the metals with his claws. Alas, while its existence has not been proven.
Vel's incident
On September 22, 1979, the American satellite Vela detected on the Prince Edward Islands, off the coast of Antarctica, a series of light flashes characteristic of a nuclear explosion. But not a single government admitted that it was conducting nuclear tests on that day. What was it? Riddle!
Craniotomy
It turns out that craniotomy is one of the most ancient methods of treating various diseases. The first rock carvings of this operation belong to the Neolithic era. For thousands of years, people have believed that trepanation - making a hole in the skull - cures epilepsy, seizures, migraines and mental illness, as evil spirits leave through a hole in a person's skull. As a rule, until the 19th century, patients undergoing this operation died quickly and painfully. But, what is most surprising, this type of treatment has not lost its popularity over the years.
Megatsunami in Lietuya Bay
On July 9, 1958, a powerful earthquake struck Lietuya Bay in Alaska. It dumped about 30 million cubic meters of rock into the water. As a result, the most powerful tsunami in history broke out in the bay: the wave height exceeded 30 meters!
Demon charge
"Charge-demon" - this is the nickname received in the Los Alamos laboratory in the United States, a sphere with a charge of plutonium, guilty of the death of two scientists. The two hemispheres were neatly connected in the middle, but not completely: after all, their connection triggered a nuclear chain reaction. Twice, in 1945 and 1946, scientists working in the Manhannen Project accidentally connected hemispheres, receiving a lethal dose of radiation. In 1945, physicist Harry Daglyan died due to the fault of the sphere, in 1946 - another physicist, Louis Zlotin. Moreover, it was the work of Zlotin and Daglyan with the "demon charge" that allowed the United States to significantly increase the power of nuclear weapons.
Toynbee Plates
These strange signs appeared in hundreds on the roads of 24 American states in the 1980s. Unknown authors glued them directly to the asphalt. The text of the tablets read: "In the movie" 2001 "the dead on the planet Jupiter are brought to life." Most likely, there was a reference to Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey. But who and why massively pasted them on the roads is still unknown.
Yonaguni monument
The Yonaguni Monument is the name given to unusual pyramidal stone structures at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Yonaguni Island, the westernmost of the Ryukyu Islands. Some believe that the skeleton of a huge pyramid left by an ancient civilization, others believe that this is just a play of waves that built strange structures out of soft bottom stone and sand, and still others consider the Yonaguni monument a greeting from an extraterrestrial civilization. But so far no one has managed to prove their point of view.
The eruption of Krakatoa in 1873
The eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia, which began in May and ended in a series of powerful explosions in August 1883, is considered the deadliest in human history. More than 36 thousand people died, and the island itself was practically wiped off the face of the earth.
Radium girls
In 1917, almost no one knew about the lethal effects of radiation. Therefore, the employees of the United States Radium Corporation, who beautifully painted the clock hands with radio-luminescent paint, were told that it was completely harmless. They worked with her all day long, resulting in numerous necrosis and cancerous tumors.
Crypt of civilization
In 1937-40 Thornwell Jacobs built the first real time capsule in Brookhaven, Georgia. In a spacious underground bunker, he collected everything that can tell the history of our civilization to the future inhabitants of the planet - from the most valuable books to samples of seeds and dental floss.
Bale's Cryptograms
Bale's Cryptograms are encrypted records found in 1885 that, according to researchers, describe the location of a treasure that a man named Thomas Bale buried somewhere in Virginia. Experienced cryptographers have been struggling with the cipher for more than a hundred years, but they were able to read only one of the pile of papers - which, by an evil irony of fate, contained not the coordinates, but a list of buried treasures.
Death Rays by Grindell Matthews
In the 1920s, Harry Grindell Matthews announced that he was able to create a real beam weapon capable of striking electricity from a distance. In the demonstration, he was actually able to turn off the motorcycle engine and light the bulb with his beams. Also, according to Matthews, his weapons could shoot down planes and set fire to powder charges from a distance. What became of Matthews' invention is clearly not clear, it is only known that he was going to sell it to the US government.
Explosion in Texas City
The tragedy of April 16, 1947 was caused by one of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in history. Standing in the city port, the French ship "Grancan" with 2100 tons of ammonium nitrate on board caught fire, and then exploded. The explosion destroyed about 1,000 buildings, killed 531 people and threw about 6,350 tons of metal high into the air.
The roar of the unknown
"Roar" - this is how the specialists of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the USA called the strange loud low-frequency sound, which was detected several times in the ocean in the summer of 1997. It could be produced by some marine animal - if there were animals the size of a skyscraper in the ocean. In the end, the scientists decided that they heard the sounds of icebergs rubbing against each other. But the only chance that this is actually the voice of Godzilla has not been canceled.