40 Unexplained Phenomena That Won't Let You Sleep Tonight

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Dive into the mysterious world of the unexplained with our compilation of 40+ unexplained natural phenomena. From underwater phenomena to bizarre occurrences in nature, these phenomena will leave you questioning the world around you. Are you ready to embark on a journey of mystery and intrigue? Buckle up for a sleepless night of wonder and join us in unraveling the secrets of the unexplained! #brightside   Animation is created by Bright Side.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Listen to Bright Side on:  Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD... Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook -     / brightside   Instagram -     / brightside.official   Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.of... Snapchat -     / 1866144599336960    Stock materials (photos, footages and other):  https://www.depositphotos.com  https://www.shutterstock.com  https://www.eastnews.ru  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me

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00:00 Now, picture this.

00:01 You're watching a volcano erupt, which is a scary view by itself.

00:05 But suddenly, you notice ominous bright flashes lighting up the sky over the volcano.

00:11 It takes the nightmarishness of the experience to a whole new level!

00:16 One cause is static electricity, which occurs when dense ash particles rub together not

00:21 very high above the ground.

00:23 The other source of volcanic lightning is high above the surface, near the stratosphere,

00:28 where chaotically moving ice crystals set free powerful jolts.

00:33 Salar del Uyuni feels like you're standing on top of a large mirror, but it's actually

00:38 a salt flat of more than 4,000 square miles.

00:42 It's located in Bolivia, South America's highest elevated country.

00:47 This natural mirror is a remnant of prehistoric lakes that had evaporated a long time ago.

00:53 Even though it may look flat, GPS technology proved that some of the landscape has some

00:58 little defaults that are all less than an inch small.

01:02 The place is so bogged that it has around 10 billion tons of salt.

01:07 If you get there at the right time, some of the nearby lakes overflow with a small layer

01:11 of water, which acts as the mirror of the sky.

01:15 Many locals extract salt and lithium from there.

01:18 Don't forget to pass by the world's first salt hotel when you visit!

01:22 You can find a real rainbow mountain in Peru.

01:24 Scientists still can't explain it.

01:26 The colorful peak is hard to reach, but seeing the blue, red, green, yellow, and pink colors

01:31 in nature is something to remember.

01:36 What looks like frozen flying saucers is, in fact, pockets of highly flammable and combustible

01:42 methane gas.

01:43 Trapped underwater, it forms psychedelic landscapes and stunning patterns.

01:48 Typical for northern lakes, such as Lake Abraham in Alberta, Canada.

01:52 These bubbles appear when dead animals, leaves, and plants fall into the water and get consumed

01:57 by bacteria.

01:59 These bacteria later excrete methane gas.

02:01 Wow, I can smell it from here!

02:05 In late March 2018, Eastern Europe witnessed an event as beautiful as it was spooky.

02:12 Skiers glided down tangerine slopes under the red-tinted sky.

02:16 Puzzled and excited, people described this experience as "walking on Mars" or "skiing

02:22 down sand dunes."

02:23 But however mysterious this phenomenon seems, it has a disappointingly simple explanation.

02:30 The sponsor of the extraterrestrial landscape was a powerful sandstorm that had arrived

02:35 from the Sahara Desert.

02:36 This storm had brought along dust, sand, and pollen particles that colored the snow orange.

02:42 It's not a one-time natural phenomenon.

02:44 Meteorologists say that orange snow covers the lands of Eastern Europe at least once

02:49 every 5 years.

02:50 Meanwhile, don't eat the orange snow!

02:54 On February 20 and 21 of 2018, people in the northeastern part of the US experienced one

03:00 of the most extraordinary weather events of recent times, and it was… a heatwave.

03:06 Yep, in February!

03:08 In fact, it was the most impressive winter heatwave since official weather records started

03:12 in the 1800s.

03:14 For example, in Freiburg, Maine, people were taking off their coats after the temperature

03:19 had risen to a baffling 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

03:22 In Fitchburg, Massachusetts, confused people put on sandals when they saw the temperature

03:27 outside – 80 degrees.

03:29 The same was happening in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the temperature reached 83, and in Wells,

03:34 Maine, where the thermometer showed 77 degrees.

03:39 Even 11,000 years ago, in present-day Turkey, with no cities or metal tools whatsoever,

03:46 some incredibly skilled craftsmen completed Gobekli Tepe.

03:50 How they managed to chip and lift limestone blocks three times as heavy as a T-Rex and

03:55 what they symbolized is still unknown.

04:00 One mind-blowing fact about Devil's Tower in Wyoming, USA, is that scientists can't

04:05 explain how it came to existence in the first place.

04:08 You see, it's an 867-foot rock formation with walls so steep they're basically vertical.

04:16 This piece of stone just arose amid the rolling plains of Wyoming with nothing like it for

04:20 miles and miles around.

04:22 So how is it that such a flat landscape could've suddenly given birth to something so tall?

04:28 Theories abound, but nobody has the answer yet.

04:32 Croatia's Plitvice Lakes National Park is a major tourist attraction and a World Heritage

04:39 Site with many unique animals and plants teeming around.

04:43 It looks like an epic movie set with infinite waterfalls flowing from every direction and

04:48 the clear lakes all around.

04:52 In the mid-1980s, a scuba diver discovered the Yanaguni Monument off the coast of Japan.

04:58 Scientists are positive this collection of structures is thousands of years old, but

05:03 they still can't decide if it's natural or man-made.

05:06 In case it proves to be an ancient city, the new mystery is what lost civilization built

05:11 it, and how did it make it to the bottom of the sea?

05:16 The shape and formations of these rocks aren't a result of some human's work.

05:20 They were created by intense volcanic eruptions.

05:24 Scientists are still confused why the Giant's Causeway in Ireland is shaped in such a weird

05:29 way.

05:31 Back in 1812, for an unknown reason, an English farmer paid a local painter to remove tons

05:37 of soil on a hillside and fill the contours with chalk.

05:41 The painter ran away with the money, so the farmer had to pay a second time to get the

05:46 Alton Barn's white horse finished.

05:50 Black Falls in Iceland get their name from the dark lava columns surrounding it.

05:54 The base of the waterfall has sharp rocks.

05:57 The entire structure was the inspiration for Icelandic architecture seen in some of their

06:01 famous buildings.

06:05 You can see hair ice in the forest on a humid winter night.

06:08 Resembling cotton candy or a white hair wig, unusual ice crystals grow on rotting wood.

06:15 Unfortunately, this beauty melts as soon as the sun comes up.

06:19 We recently have scientists discover what creates hair ice.

06:22 All this time it was, are you ready?

06:25 Fungus.

06:26 Yep.

06:27 It allows the ice to form super-thin hairs and helps them to support this form throughout

06:31 the night.

06:32 When this particular type of fungus isn't present, instead of fragile hair, ice forms

06:37 a crust-like structure.

06:41 One of the most common causes of wildfires is lightning from thunderstorms.

06:46 Have you ever heard of a wildfire that triggered a thunderstorm?

06:50 Well, now you know!

06:51 It happened on May 11, 2018, not far from Amarillo, Texas.

06:56 Then the super-powerful Mallard Fire not only created a massive dense cloud high in the

07:01 air, its heat also caused a violent thunderstorm that later dumped tons of quarter-sized hailstones

07:09 60 miles away in Wheeler County, Texas.

07:13 Carhenge is the weirdest landmark of Nebraska.

07:17 Its author studied the real Stonehenge and created his own version out of old cars as

07:22 a tribute to his father.

07:24 Some cars stand like monoliths.

07:27 Others are connected into arches.

07:32 When asked why he did all this, the creator of the construction said, "Why not?"

07:38 Another Stonehenge lookalike was found on the bottom of Lake Michigan in 2007.

07:43 There's a group of rocks in a circle and carvings of a mastodon.

07:47 This beast ceased existing over 10,000 years ago, so the carving has to be older than that.

07:53 Its location is kept secret from the public.

07:56 Good luck finding it!

07:59 Canada's Hudson Bay is probably the only place in the world where gravity is indeed

08:03 lower than anywhere else on the planet.

08:06 Even skeptics can't smirk at it because the difference has been measured with precision

08:10 equipment.

08:11 So, does it mean that the gravity here is as low as, say, on the Moon?

08:16 Unfortunately or is it luckily, I'm not sure yet.

08:20 The difference is miniscule.

08:22 The exact value is 0.005 or 1/200th of a percent.

08:27 You won't be able to feel it even if you try your hardest, but it's still there.

08:32 Scientists say this anomaly exists because of the ice sheet that covered the area about

08:37 10,000 years ago.

08:38 It compressed the rocks so much that they still can't fully recover, shifting the

08:43 gravitational field in Hudson Bay.

08:45 Sometime in the future, though, the gravity will return to normal in this area as well.

08:52 In 2010, fossilized fish were uncovered 250 miles west of the Nile River, where the Sahara

08:58 Desert was as arid as ever.

09:01 This chance finding led scientists to believe there could've been a sea where the Sierra

09:05 is now.

09:06 So, they conducted a geological survey of the area, and it yielded unexpected results.

09:12 They found evidence of something huge under the sands, and it wasn't part of any sea

09:17 at all.

09:19 For several months, the research continued with GPS equipment on land, and later, when

09:24 all the ground data was collected, scientists took a look at the area from a satellite.

09:29 The view was astounding.

09:31 It turned out there was an enormous basin underneath the desert, with another, smaller

09:36 one nearby.

09:38 Along the shores of these basins, ancient human settlements had been found previously,

09:43 and now the researchers finally had the answer as to why exactly they had chosen those spots

09:48 to live.

09:49 There had been a lake of impressive proportions – over 42,000 square miles of freshwater

09:55 in total, about half the size of Lake Michigan.

10:01 The Huaygan volcano in Indonesia is not your ordinary lava belching mountain.

10:06 Instead of producing black smoke and red lava, as most volcanoes do, this eccentric guy lets

10:12 out a blue flame, and electric blue lava.

10:15 This phenomenon occurs because the volcano contains some of the highest levels of sulfur

10:20 in the world, and when the sulfuric gases interact with scorching air and get lit by

10:24 the molten lava, they start to turn blue.

10:28 Fortunately, you can see this mesmerizing sight only at night, but you can smell it

10:33 all day long.

10:34 By the way, the world's largest acid lake is also located inside this crater.

10:40 The Dead Sea has a high concentration of salt and minerals compared to other seas, even

10:45 though it's technically a lake.

10:47 Swimming is almost impossible, but people go there for the natural chemicals for the

10:51 body.

10:52 Floating on the surface is a great way to relax.

10:55 This ancient body of water got its name because no macroscopic organisms can live there since

11:01 it's 9.6 times saltier than oceans.

11:04 Only a few bacteria and fungi can be found enjoying the salt.

11:07 It's also Earth's lowest elevation on land at 1,400 feet below sea level.

11:15 An underground crystal cave exists in Mexico, and it looks like some interstellar world.

11:21 It's roughly 1,000 feet beneath the surface, with each spike measuring up to 35 feet in

11:26 length and weighing up to 55 tons.

11:29 These are some of the largest crystals in the world.

11:33 Leskintar Beach is an endless strand of white sand dunes in azure water.

11:38 But don't let the tropical vibes fool you.

11:40 It's located in Scotland.

11:42 That's why it mostly looks like this during May and June only.

11:45 In December, the place gets only an average of one hour of sunshine per day, making it

11:50 way more dramatic and monochrome.

11:54 The Georgia Guidestones is a collection of giant stones in a star pattern.

11:58 It has inscriptions in 8 languages, including Hindi, Chinese, and Swahili.

12:04 It also has an astronomical calendar finished in 1980 and was built to last centuries.

12:09 No one knows who built it or why.

12:14 All the way over in sunny California is Sequoia National Park, home to the giant forest.

12:19 It's been around for thousands of years.

12:22 More than 8,000 of these colossal trees rule the land, including 10 of the largest living

12:27 plants in the world.

12:29 The General Sherman Sequoia is estimated to be up to 2,700 years old and is recognized

12:35 as the world's largest known living tree by volume.

12:40 The famous stone heads of Easter Island have been around for hundreds of years.

12:44 No one knows exactly why they were built.

12:47 Some scientists think that local people believed the statues would make the soil more fertile.

12:52 Soil analysis proved the heads did their job well.

12:55 It's the best agricultural spot on the island.

12:59 The chemical composition of the ancient hot springs in Pamukkale, Turkey, makes the water

13:04 pouring over the edge look magical.

13:06 They're not only good for cleansing your body, but the mind too.

13:11 All the way in Saudi Arabia is a rock sliced perfectly in the middle with two pieces sitting

13:16 parallel.

13:17 What makes al-Nasla so unique is that it wasn't artificially done, but is a result of nature's

13:23 work over the years.

13:25 This glacier may look like someone dropped tons of red paint in the middle of Antarctica,

13:30 but it's actually the natural color.

13:32 Blood falls is a result of extreme salted water mixed with iron oxide, giving out this

13:37 eerie vibe in the middle of nowhere.

13:41 In early May 2018, New England observed one of the scariest and most dangerous phenomena

13:46 ever – a super long-track tornado.

13:50 The frightening natural phenomenon started not far from Charleston, New Hampshire, and

13:54 traveled toward the town of Webster in Merrimack County.

13:58 It took the tornado 33 minutes to cover 36 miles and become the third on the list of

14:03 the longest track tornadoes in New England.

14:07 In the Philippines, you can swim in some of the most crystal-clear waters and discover

14:11 an underwater world below you in the province of Palawan.

14:15 The municipality of Coron has white sandy beaches with many small boats riding through

14:21 the many amazing sceneries.

14:24 Tristan da Cunha is a small volcanic archipelago in the Atlantic with the only neighboring cities

14:29 of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Cape Town, South Africa.

14:33 It takes 7 days by ship to get to this unique place.

14:37 If you want to escape from the rest of the world, staying with the 280 locals will make

14:42 you feel like you're away from everything.

14:46 During the first week of January 2018, unusually cold weather in the Northeast United States

14:52 froze the Atlantic Ocean in North Thalmouth, Massachusetts.

14:55 What's more, the ocean was frozen so thoroughly that people were walking on the waves.

15:00 Now that's obviously something you don't see every day.

15:05 White sand is what makes this beach unique and why tourists flock to Tianjin, China.

15:10 A red-colored plant called a suede salsa dwells in the saltwater.

15:15 The whole beach is covered in red, with only the top layer of the sea visible.

15:20 If there ever was a thing that said "I defy gravity" out loud, it's the stone of Devasco

15:25 in Argentina.

15:27 The huge 300-ton boulder stands precariously on the edge of a cliff and rocks a little

15:33 bit from side to side in the wind.

15:35 People even checked it by putting glass bottles under one of its edges.

15:39 They exploded with another movement of the rock.

15:42 Unfortunately today, you can't see this wonder of nature as it was a century ago.

15:47 In 1912, the boulder suddenly dropped from its perch, which it had occupied for literally

15:52 hundreds of years.

15:54 The people of the nearby town of Tandil were so sad about this event that 95 years later,

15:59 in 2007, they decided to restore the stone.

16:03 They made a plastic replica of the rock and put it on the same spot and even in the same

16:08 position.

16:09 So, even today, coming by Tandil, you can see its famous balancing boulder.

16:15 More of a symbol now, of course, because it's no longer rocking and only weighs 9 tons,

16:20 but instantly recognizable nonetheless.

16:24 Socotra is an alien-like island off the coast of Yemen in the Indian Ocean with one of the

16:29 most unique trees ever seen.

16:31 It's called the Dragon Tree, and it can only be found on this amazing island.

16:37 In 2008, it was labeled as a World Heritage Site.

16:42 If you ever see a tight-burning column of air, don't panic, it's not the end of

16:46 the world!

16:47 The creepy combination of whirlwind sounds and scorching inferno means that you have

16:51 crossed paths with a fire tornado, also known as fire twister or fire whirl.

16:58 This dangerous phenomenon occurs mostly during wildfires.

17:01 These fires create a big area of super-hot air just above the ground.

17:06 When this scorching air gets mixed with the cooler air higher up, it results in a whirlwind

17:11 that churns up burning debris and flames.

17:14 The most powerful firenados can stretch hundreds of feet into the air.

17:19 The House of Mystery in Gold Hill, Oregon amazes its visitors with gravity-defying effects.

17:25 You can't stand straight there, always leaning to the side and having to hold on to something

17:30 for balance.

17:31 Balls roll upwards.

17:33 There's also a broom that stands perfectly still wherever you put it, unlike virtually

17:38 everything else in the shack.

17:40 The local Native American tribes called this place the Forbidden Ground, even before the

17:45 house was built there, and they avoid approaching it.

17:48 The owners of the shack, though, decided to turn it into an attraction, and they succeeded.

17:53 They created an atmosphere of mystery around the place, and spread the news about it in

17:58 newspapers and later on the Internet, and voila!

18:01 A perfect anomaly is made.

18:04 In fact, it's no more than a curiosity.

18:06 A human-made optical illusion that tricks your eyes and other senses.

18:11 If you travel to the Philippines, Indonesia, or Papua New Guinea, you'll have a chance

18:16 to see some of the most unusual and cheerful trees in the world.

18:20 The trunk of the Rainbow Eucalyptus looks as if it had been painted orange, green, red,

18:25 purple, yellow, brown, blue, you name it!

18:29 Some trees are so bright that they seem artificial.

18:32 The Rainbow Eucalyptus regularly sheds strips of bark, which reveals a bright green layer

18:38 underneath.

18:39 A bit later, this green layer gradually changes its color, and since the shedding happens

18:44 at a different time in different places on the trunk, the tree starts to look multicolored

18:49 and very attractive.

18:51 Yemen is home to the oldest skyscrapers in the world and the oldest metropolis.

18:56 The ancient city of Shabam is considered to be the Manhattan of the desert due to the

19:01 collection of mud buildings popping out of the desert floor.

19:05 It used to be a caravan stop during ancient times.

19:13 In Russia, on the shores of the Baltic Sea, there's an enigmatic national park.

19:18 The Dancing Forest is a place that no scientist has managed to explain so far.

19:23 The pine trees of the forest are all crooked and twisted into loops and spirals.

19:28 The forest didn't appear until the early 60s, when the pines were planted in order

19:32 to make the sand dune in that area more stable.

19:36 One theory is that it's the unstable sand that made the trees twist in such a way.

19:41 Other theories for the crooked trees are strong winds, or even supernatural powers.

19:46 Some people say the forest is a place where positive and negative energies meet, twisting

19:51 the trees.

19:52 Local legend says that if a person climbs through one of the rings of a tree, it'll

19:57 add an extra year to this person's life or they'll be granted a wish.

20:01 I like that one.

20:03 Speaking of bizarre trees (and I was), one grows in the region of Piedmont, Italy.

20:08 There, a cherry tree grows on the top of a mulberry tree.

20:12 The strange thing is that both trees are perfectly healthy.

20:18 A continuous storm at Saturn's north pole has an odd shape – a hexagon.

20:23 This is probably because of the gradient of the winds.

20:27 The total length of this cloud pattern is 9,000 miles, which is about 1,200 miles longer

20:32 than the Earth's diameter.

20:34 The hexagon has been observed for many years, but it gets even more mysterious because it

20:39 changes color too.

20:41 It used to be turquoise, but it has recently shifted to a golden color.

20:46 The reason for the color change is that the pole gets exposed to sunlight as the seasons

20:51 change.

20:54 Rain isn't unusual for Oakville, Washington.

20:57 However, this one still doesn't have any solid scientific explanation.

21:01 Instead of common raindrops, people watch translucent jelly-like blobs fall from the

21:07 skies.

21:08 These blobs covered about 20 square miles.

21:11 Those who got really close to the rain experienced flu-like symptoms.

21:15 What were the blobs?

21:17 Researchers claim that the blobs contain human white blood cells.

21:21 Later tests showed no presence of nuclei.

21:24 Some people claim the blobs might've been evaporated jellyfish resulting in rain.

21:29 Or maybe even waste from a commercial plane.

21:34 Walking rocks, also known as sailing rocks, move across the Death Valley National Park

21:39 in California without any external intervention, leaving long trails in the dirt and sand along

21:45 their way.

21:47 Various time-lapse footages of the moving rocks have been taken.

21:51 Scientists even installed GPS navigators on some of the rocks, and it showed that the

21:55 rocks move at a considerable speed.

21:58 Some researchers believe that the movement is due to thin sheets of ice that form overnight

22:03 at freezing temperatures in the valley, letting the rocks move until it melts during the day.

22:09 Or there was a Rolling Stones concert.

22:12 Nah.

22:14 The Batageka Crater in Siberia looks like a doorway to the underworld.

22:20 It's about a half-mile long and over 280 feet deep, but it never stops growing.

22:26 As it gets deeper, it exposes more underground layers.

22:29 The layers show what our planet looked like thousands of years ago, as the slumps reveal

22:34 the used-to-be climates.

22:36 The crater appeared back in the 60s, and it all started with rapid deforestation.

22:41 Trees no longer cast shade on the ground, and it got hotter.

22:45 The permafrost melted, resulting in the crater formation.

22:50 The throbbing hum in Taos, New Mexico, has driven locals wild since the 1990s.

23:01 The low-frequency hum deprives people of sleep and depletes their energy.

23:06 Even though scientists have tried to find the source of the hum, they still haven't

23:10 pinpointed its origin.

23:12 Different variations of the hum have also been heard in the UK, Australia, Canada, and

23:17 other areas of the US.

23:19 Luckily, only about 2% of the world's population can hear it.

23:23 The hums have been blamed on mechanical devices, multiple disturbances of auditory systems,

23:29 and even animals.

23:30 The West Seattle hum, for example, was blamed on toadfish.

23:36 Fairy rings, also known as elf rings or pixie rings, are mysterious rings of mushrooms that

23:42 appear in grasslands and forested areas.

23:44 There's a lot of debate about why these fungi form a nearly perfect circle.

23:50 Some superstitions claim that fairy dances would burn the ground, causing mushrooms to

23:54 rapidly grow.

23:57 In Costa Rica, there's an assortment of about 300 spherical stone balls.

24:03 Locals call them "las bolas," which is simply "the balls" in English.

24:07 These stones have an almost perfect round shape.

24:10 Some of them are huge, weighing up to 16 tons each.

24:13 They're also made of different materials – gabbro, limestone, and sandstone.

24:18 They're considered to have been put in straight lines in front of the chief's houses, but

24:23 there's no precise information of their origin.

24:26 Some myths claim that these stones originated in Atlantis.

24:33 If you ever travel to the Mekong River in late October, you have a chance of seeing

24:37 glowing balls rising from the water and beelining up into the air.

24:42 Locals call these glowing balls the "Naga Fireballs."

24:46 The size of the lights vary.

24:47 The reddish balls can be as tiny as a spark and as large as a basketball.

24:52 There can be dozens to thousands of balls a night.

24:56 Myths don't have any solid explanation for why it happens, but it could be due to flammable

25:00 gases released by the marshy environment.

25:03 Some superstitious locals are sure it's all because of a giant serpent living in the

25:08 Mekong.

25:10 Great balls of fire!

25:14 In Minnesota, on the north shore of Lake Superior, there's a park known for the Devil's Kettle.

25:20 This is a waterfall that splits in two.

25:22 One part of the river continues, while the other part disappears into a hole in the ground.

25:27 Whatever object you throw into the Devil's Kettle won't reappear.

25:32 Scientists still haven't fully explained where the water that drops into the hole goes.

25:36 Devil's Kettle is considered to be unsafe for people because it's nearly impossible

25:41 to trace the flow.

25:42 Yeah, not a place to go tubing.

25:46 Grunions are fish known for their bizarre mating ritual.

25:50 The females climb out of the water and onto the shore.

25:53 They dig their tails into the sand in order to lay eggs.

25:56 The legs stay hidden in the sand, waiting.

25:59 Ten days later, the high tide comes, washing the newly hatched young to the sea.

26:05 Scientists still can't give any solid explanation for this way of breeding.

26:11 People who live in rural central Norway, over the Hestalen Valley, can often witness floating

26:17 lights of white, yellow, and red cross the sky.

26:20 The lights appear both at day and night, and once back in the 80s, they were spotted 15-20

26:26 times in a single week.

26:28 The Hestalen lights can last just a few seconds, but sometimes they can last more than an hour.

26:34 The lights move, seeming to float or even sway around.

26:38 Some scientists believe that the reason for these lights is due to ionized iron dust.

26:43 Others say it's combustion that includes sodium, oxygen, and hydrogen.

26:48 Many people claim they're just misidentified aircrafts.

26:53 Yellowstone Park has a famous boiling lake, but it's not the world's only place of boiling

26:59 water.

27:00 Deep in the Amazon, there's the 4-mile Chania-Tempishka River that's always hot.

27:05 The name means "boiled by the sun."

27:07 Well, it's not exactly boiling, but it can reach 196°F – enough to cook pasta!

27:14 Ooh, let's try that!

27:17 The lowest temperature in these waters is about 113°F.

27:20 This river still can't be scientifically explained because it would require close proximity

27:25 to a volcano for the water to reach such temperatures.

27:29 However, the closest volcano is 400 miles away.

27:33 But there could be a fault between the Earth that could explain this phenomenon.

27:39 In western Venezuela, locals living close to the Catatumbo River aren't afraid of

27:44 lightning because they see it almost every single night.

27:48 It starts at around 7 o'clock and doesn't stop until dawn.

27:52 The everlasting Catatumbo lightning did once stop for a few months, from January to March

27:58 2010.

27:59 It was probably due to drought.

28:01 Or maybe the charge ran out.

28:03 In 1991, a scientist suggested that the phenomenon happens because of cold and warm air currents

28:09 meeting in the area.

28:11 Another theory is that the lightning could be due to the presence of uranium in the bedrock.

28:16 Speaking of lightning, I gotta bolt!

28:18 Bye!

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