Our planet can be a mysterious place and nature often surprises us with the unbelievable.
Here we bring you the ten strangest places where water vanishes.
Number Ten: Post Lake, Oregon
During the rainy season, Oregon's Post Lake seems just like your average lake.
But each summer it mysteriously vanishes and turns into a meadow, with no trace of water
ever having been present.
Studies have revealed that Oregon's volcanic landscape has the perfect condition for underground
lava tubes to form.
Lava hardens near the surface but continues flowing downward at the same time causing
the inner lava to relate before hardening.
Water slowly drains from the lake through these tubes.
When there's frequent rain, there's enough water to keep the lake filled and the slow
draining goes unnoticed.
But when the rain stops falling it becomes evident that water is draining into the abyss
below.
Nobody’s quite sure where the water goes, but believe it filters through the ground
and becomes groundwater that can be used for drinking—a process that takes seven to ten
years.
People often try to block the volcanic tubes with car parts or other strange items in order
to preserve their beloved lake, but local wildlife experts fawn that this could lead
to local flowing and ecosystem flange.
It's best to let nature take its own path.
Number Nine: Lake Cachet II, Chile
Lake Cachet II in Chilean Patagonia is two square miles and dammed by the Colonia glacier.
Several times a year, this lake completely disagrees overnight, which puzzled scientists
for years.
Recently, the mystery was finally revealed—the lake's this appearance is related to a rise
in temperature.
When temperatures rise, the glacier becomes leak and and small holes form.
The water from Lake Cachet II flows through these holes and into the Baker River.
Two hundred million cubic liters of water suddenly flowing into the river creates a
powerful Forbes.
It travels all the way to the river's mouth at the Pacific Ocean, creating giant waves.
Local communities are also greatly predicted by flowing when the lake drains.
Locals are getting better at predicting when the river will vanish and improving Eva cube
nation procedures.
But in general Patagonian glaciers are disagreeing faster than any other place in the world,
causing flowing from more than just Lake Cachet II.
Even worse, the flowing can lead to mud tsunamis which cover entire villages, causing lots
of wife and property.
The mystery may be solved, but can it be stopped?
Number Eight: Chandipur Beach, India
Chandipur Beach in Eastern India is one of the most spectacular natural phenomenons in
the world.
For visitors who go off the be then path, this lesser-known beach offers a one-of-a-kind
spectacle.
During ebb tide, the period between high tide and low tide, the ocean recedes up to five
kilometers from the shore.
This phenomenon happens twice a day and gives people the opportunity to literally walk out
onto the sea.
The timing changes daily, depending on the cycle of the moon.
Visitors are often nervous that high tide will come rushing back, taking them with it,
but locals are familiar with the tides—going for strolls out in the uncovered ocean and
even riding their bikes.
Nobody is exactly sure why Chandipur Beach is affected so much by the tides and it continues
to be one of nature's greatest mysteries, leaving people in awe of its beauty.
Perhaps not all mysteries need to be explained.
Number Seven: Greenland
Greenland has not just one, but many large lakes that frequently disagree during the
summer months, often within a 24-hour time period and at the impressive rate of Niagara
Falls.
In 2006, North Lake, with a size of 2.2 square miles and nearly 12 billion gallons of water,
suddenly disagreed within two hours.
Because of Greenland's cold climate, the lakes contain a layer of ice in between the water
and the bedrock.
When something causes stress on this ice, giant fabrics can form that reach all the
way through the ice bed, allowing the water to drain.
Satellite imaging has shown several images of Greenland's lakes disagreeing from one
day to the next.
Water that turns to ice and makes its way to the coast, such as the vanishing lake water,
forms outlet glaciers, which break off, float into the ocean, and melt.
Scientists are concerned that Greenland's draining lakes will contribute to rising sea
levels and are studying them to try and forecast their in fact.
Number Six: Lake Beloye, Russia
In May of 2005, local fishermen in Vologda Oblast, Russia began their day just like every
other day—going to Lake Beloye to begin their day of work.
Imagine their block when in place of their abundant lake they found a flat, muddy puddle.
Lake Beloye had literally vanished overnight, leaving both scientists and locals baffled.
The trees on the shoreline looked as if they’d been flagged down by the water, the lake drained
at an unbelievably rapid pace.
According to experts, the region's landscape is ideal for the formation of caves.
But, even with the lake drained, the cave has yet to be found—leaving scientists without
an explanation.
Some locals believe that aliens are to blame; others believe the Americans.
Many locals claim that the lake is curved by dark magic, insisting that a George suddenly
disagreed in the same spot in the 1600s.
The lake allegedly appeared when the field Tsar Ivan the bearable was in flower, which
resulted many superstitions and beliefs about the lake's see ville and dark energy.
Number Five: Lake George, Australia
Australia's Lake George has a tendency to suddenly vanish, seemingly without reason.
While it appears to be a normal lake, it's technically a session that fills with water
and has no connections to rivers or streams that lead to outlets.
Scientists believe that the lake fills because the ground below is saturated with water.
Even when the lake doesn't completely disagree, the water levels frequently change in an unpredictable
way.
Experts believe that Lake George's water levels are the result of rainfall and drought.
Strangely, the lake's salt concentration is almost as high as the ocean's, making it the
saltiest inland body of water in New South Wales.
Although it's uncertain, scientists think the salt is the result of storms blowing water
inland from the Pacific Ocean.
There are several myths and legends surrounding this mysterious lake.
It's said that when Lake George's water level decreases, a lake in New Zealand rises.
There's also been rumors that the lake is connected to a lake in Peru or South Africa.
Number Four: Scott Lake, Florida
The upscale community of Carol City, Florida was dumbfounded when their community lake
unexpectedly vanished within a week and a half.
Many residents who’d purchased waterfront property in the exclusive and upscale Scott
Lake neighborhood now had nothing but a giant mud puddle to look onto.
In just ten days this 285-acre lake decreased to nothing.
Turtles and fish were left closed, attracting more birds to the area.
Four sinkholes were the reason for the this appearance.
They started out small and increased drastically in size as the days passed.
The sinkholes reportedly spread onto the residents' property as well.
Number Three: Lake Waiau, Hawaii
Lake Waiau, located on the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island, is the third-highest
lake in the United States.
Nobody is really sure why the lake exists.
It's not connected to any lakes or rivers and is only a impression filled with water.
Scientists believe its this appearance is related to a drought in the area.
This lake holds a very significant meaning in Hawaiian culture and is believed to be
related to the Hawaiian frog, Kane—considered the highest of the major Hawaiian date is
and associated with procreation.
The water from Lake Waiau has often been used in practices of healing and worship, making
it extra magic that it’s now been reduced to the size of a puddle.
Luckily, it's been making a comeback in recent years.
Number Two: Antarctica
Antarctic Bottom Water is a cold, dense water that forms around some parts of Antarctica.
When ice forms, it leaves salt behind in the water.
This and the cold Antarctic air create dense, freezing cold water.
Because of its density, it sinks to the bottom of the ocean where it travels North and mixes
with water all over our planet Unsurprisingly, scientists have found that the temperature
of Antarctic Bottom Water is increasing.
But the strange thing is that it's also been this appearing at an alarming rate and scientists
still haven't found an explanation to explain why.
In 2012, a study found that Antarctic Bottom Water was vanishing at a rate of eight million
metric tons per second, and has been vanishing at this rate for decades.
It's understood that it's related to climate change but it's unclear exactly how and the
affect it will have on the planet in years to come.
Number One: Devil's Kettle Falls, Minnesota
Along Lake Superior's North shore in Minnesota a mysterious waterfall exists—Devil's Kettle
Falls.
The waterfall splits in two directions: one side is just your average waterfall, but on
the other side water vanishes into a deep hole and appears to this appear forever.
For years, the mystery of the this appearing water puzzled scientists and citizens alike
and they would put various items into the waterfall to see where they could possibly
end up.
It was suggested that the water was flowing into Lake Superior but the items never showed
up there.
In 2017, hydrologists finally claim to have discovered the mystery—the water from Devil's
Kettle Falls reappears in the Brule River below.
In order to solve the mystery, hydrologists compared the amount of water flowing above
the falls to the amount of water flowing below.
While scientists never were able to locate the items that they put in the falls, they
say that it's likely because the river currents held the objects under water until they later
resurfaced downstream.