There are fascinating and truly puzzling discoveries in the world, especially when they are found in the most unexpected places.
The 1,600-year-old Lycurgus Holy Grail from ancient Rome can change color depending on which side the light shines through it. The strange thing is that since ancient times, the Romans have been experimenting with microscopic particles of gold and silver. These nanoparticles cause the cup to change color.
In 2012, several 19th-century tombstones washed ashore at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, USA. The reason is that at the beginning of this century, cemeteries in this city were closed and tombstones were used as construction materials for many different projects, including sea dikes.
In 1849, construction workers found whale fossils on a farm in Vemont, USA. But the strange thing is that the sea is about 322 km away. The fossil is estimated to be about 12,500 years old.
Every year, the people of Yoro in Honduras encounter hundreds of fresh fish on the streets, even though Yoro is miles away from the ocean.
People call this phenomenon “lluvia de peces” (or fish rain phenomenon). Many theories have been put forward, including divine intervention, but none have been convincing.
On an ordinary day at the San Juan Hills Golf Club in California, USA, a leopard shark suddenly fell from the sky! People guessed that perhaps the shark was carried away by a bird and fell. Luckily, it was returned to the ocean.
We often find adorable marsupials in Australia. So how did they get to Lambay Island, off the coast of Ireland?
Through investigation, they were brought there by a family in the 1950s and gradually multiplied by adapting to the climate and living environment here.
In 1953, at least 11 venomous Indian cobras were found in Springfield, Missouri, USA.
It was not until 1988 that a man came forward to admit that he had released this deadly animal.
In 2007, researchers found a giant stone structure arranged in a circle at the bottom of Lake Michigan in the US.
People have not yet determined information about stone walls similar to the famous Stonehenge monument in England, whether they are naturally or intentionally placed there.
Similarly, in 1985, two locomotives suspected to date back to the early 1850s were found off the coast of New Jersey, USA. It’s unclear why the locomotive was there
Scientists claim to have found organic matter in this meteorite. But later studies revealed that these were deliberately “planted” into meteorites in the 19th century.
Bouvet Island is a remote, uninhabited island in the Atlantic Ocean, but a lifeboat was still discovered on the island in 1964. As it turned out, the boat belonged to a whaling ship that got stuck in bad weather , after which, the crew was taken away from the island
The Naica mine in Mexico is filled with giant crystals. Extremely high temperatures and humidity make mine exploration extremely difficult
But in 2017, researchers made an astonishing discovery: tiny creatures in crystals. Scientists suspect they have lived there for 10,000 to 50,000 years.
If you go to the desert outside Moynaq, Uzbekistan, you will find some rusting ships. This area was formerly the Aral Sea, the fourth largest lake in the world, but it has dried up over the past 40 years.