From spooky skeletons in the Sahara to terrifying monsters caught skulking through the sand,
here are ten of the creepiest and most unbelievable things ever found in the desert!
10: The Skeletons of the Sahara Deep in the Sahara Desert, scientist Paul
Sereno discovered a very creepy human burial site unlike anything you've ever seen.
The discovery happened by accident when Paul and his team were searching for dinosaur fossils.
They were on an expedition to Niger when three weeks into their journey they stumbled upon
some unexpected human bones.
The bones had been buried in the sand for between 5000 and 10,000 years.
The truly amazing thing about this discovery is that it proves at least two civilizations
flourished in what is today the largest desert on the planet.
After Paul's initial discovery, he went back to the Sahara over the next 10 years, embarking
on five expeditions.
He has now found over 200 burial plots and each seems to be more mysterious than the
last.
He discovered a man with his head buried inside of a pot.
Another time he found a man buried under the sand and sitting on the shell of a turtle.
He also found a young girl buried with a bracelet carved from precious hippopotamus bone.
The two distinct civilizations that lived here in the Sahara are the Kiffian and Tenerian.
What scientists can't quite wrap their heads around is that these civilizations prospered
thousands of years apart yet buried their dead side by side.
Archaeologists have found artifacts like arrowheads and jewelry.
They found harpoons carved from bones.
However, even after Paul and his team took some amazing skeletons back to their lab at
the University of Chicago for analysis, they still haven't quite been able to 100% verify
who these ancient people were, how they lived, or why they vanished.
9: Creepy Creature Some very bizarre footage has surfaced recently,
causing people to speculate that some kind of goat-killing monster has been prowling
a desert in Portugal.
In the clip, a very peculiar beast can be seen for just a few seconds, lurching about
before vanishing behind a bush.
But what's really strange is that the creature has a gait like a man.
It walks upright on two legs and almost looks like Gollum from Lord of the Rings.
Now, some people have claimed the footage shows the Chupacabra.
If not the real Chupacabra, then at least something similar.
But it doesn't make sense why a monster from South America known for drinking the blood
of goats would be roaming around in Portugal.
It just doesn't add up.
And besides, the creature is very clearly some kind of humanoid.
It looks like a skinny Bigfoot with no hair.
Of course, there really isn't anything we can do to prove what kind of creepy thing
this is.
All we can hope is that we never see it again and that there aren’t any more of them.
But considering how vast and empty the deserts of our planet are, there’s just no telling
what kind of unidentified monsters are living beneath the sand.
8: Eduard Bohlen Shipwreck The Eduard Bohlen shipwreck is – if not
the creepiest, definitely the most amazing shipwreck found anywhere in the world.
It’s located in Namibia, on the Skeleton Coast, a place where shipwreck disasters are
in abundance.
But the ship is quite far from the coastal waters.
It looks stranded and frozen in time, as if it came from millennia ago when the desert
was actually an ocean.
This particular shipwreck is a brutal reminder of just how foreboding and lonely the Skeleton
Coast can be.
The Eduard Bohlen ran aground on September 5, 1909.
The large cargo ship was 310 feet long and on its way to Table Bay.
Of course, it never made it.
It got stuck in sand and has been there ever since.
But you're probably wondering how this now creepy ship got so far out into the desert.
The truth is that the ship never moved.
Instead, it was the desert that moved closer to the water.
The desert of Namibia has been growing, slowly getting closer and closer to the shore – so
close that in 100 years, the shipwreck is now more than 1300 feet from the water's edge.
It used to be stuck in the surf.
Now it's literally stuck in the middle of a barren wasteland, far from the salty waves.
7: A Desert Ghost While two men were driving through the desert,
they witnessed what can only be described as a walking nightmare.
The two men saw from inside their car a mysterious old woman in a white gown drifting through
the desert like a ghost.
These guys actually captured the whole incident on video.
The video was filmed near a small village in India according to the Daily Star, way
out in the absolute middle of nowhere.
You can clearly see the woman in white standing at the edge of the roadside, hunched over
with her face shrouded in jet-black hair.
You can even hear the driver screaming in horror as the woman turns to them, then begins
running at their vehicle as if to leap through the windshield!
The men start shouting Lock it!
Lock it!! and Who is that??!!
The horrible ordeal goes on for much longer than seems necessary.
The desert ghost shuffles after their car, spasming in the dust, looking a lot like the
girl from The Ring.
The people in the car shout and scream, they go in reverse to get away, but no matter what
they do, the witchlike figure continues to give chase.
Then – abruptly… she’s gone back into the night.
Unfortunately, there's no way of telling if this was really a ghost.
There is a chance the lady in white could have just been a confused village woman in
distress.
There's also the possibility that she could have been a distraught spirit trying to get
some attention.
Regardless, super creepy!
And if that ever happened to me I think I would have a heart attack!
What's the scariest thing you've ever seen driving around in the desert at night?
Let me know in the comments below!!
6: Horned Kangaroo Skull In rather bizarre news, the first ever complete
skull of a horned kangaroo was discovered in an Australian desert.
Researchers stumbled upon a small cache of fossils inside a series of caves in the Nullarbor
Plain.
Excavations were done by scientists with the Western Australian Museum in Perth.
Other than just finding the incredible skulls of horned kangaroos, they also found megafauna
fossils and the skeleton of a giant marsupial lion known as the Thylacoleo.
If you've never heard of a horned kangaroo, you're not alone.
One of the lead researchers on the case, John long, recently told New Scientist that the
kangaroo is very strange and doesn't look like any kangaroo still living today.
It also doesn't look like any fossil of a kangaroo previously discovered.
It's completely new, with bizarre bones sticking out above its eyes (what you might call horns)
and a very round snout.
The big mystery now is discovering what kangaroos may have needed horns for in their distant
past.
Some researchers speculate that the horns were used to guard the kangaroo’s eyes.
Because kangaroos live in very arid environments and are often forced to eat very spiky plants,
the horns may have kept their eyes from getting pricked.
Initial dating work suggests the kangaroo lived somewhere between 200,000 and 500,000
years ago.
It lived in the Nullarbor Plain, an area of Australia that stretches all across the southwest
coast and is an inhospitable desert.
It's important to note that half a million years ago, the area would have been wetter
and more hospitable, supporting more diverse animals.
5: The Domes The Domes of Casa Grande are located in the
Arizona desert.
The Domes were originally built for the manufacturing of computers between the late 1970s and the
early 1980s.
However, the Domes were never completed.
The only things that got finished were a few foundations and domed ceilings.
The plan was to create a kind of Silicon Valley in the middle of nowhere in Arizona.
But nobody was very interested in the project, and it was eventually abandoned.
It's still there standing today.
One of the buildings looks oddly like a flying disc and the other three buildings are just
big concrete pillars.
But some weird stuff has gone on here over the years.
Some locals claim there has been witchcraft activity and satanic worship.
They claim Satanists have been using the creepy tunnels to try and summon the devil!
And while this is probably not true, nobody really knows except for the supposed Satanist
who may or may not be using the Domes for their blasphemous rituals.
But not only are the Domes some of the creepiest things found in the desert because of their
mysteriously dark past, they’re also dangerous.
In 2018, one of the dome-shaped buildings collapsed.
And even though the town ordered the destruction of the remaining domes, as of November 2019,
they were still standing.
They might still be there!
4: The Yucca Man From the Mojave Desert to Joshua Tree National
Park, there is something horrifying scaring campers and hikers alike.
It's known as the Yucca Man, and it's been around since the 1960s.
The creature supposedly attacks army recruits training in the desert, specifically those
on guard duty at night.
There have also been reports that the Yucca Man opens tents and peers in at sleeping campers.
Sometimes the beast leaves behind a footprint.
Sometimes, it leaves a blurry residue on someone’s photograph.
There has never been certifiable evidence that the Yucca Man exists, though there have
been plenty of eyewitness accounts confirming its identity.
The Yucca Man is the desert BigFoot of the Wild West.
A single snapshot is the closest thing we have to physical evidence that the beast exists.
It was taken at the Hidden Valley campground back in the 1990s.
All we can see is the blurred shape of what seems to be a walking primate.
Amateur cryptozoologists have been searching for the Yucca Man for years, while mainstream
scientists dismiss any mysterious creature as just being a bear or coyote, or even just
a human.
But this doesn't add up.
The natives who lived in California way before Europeans ever arrived also spoke of a strange
entity that lived in the desert.
They called it something like “the hairy devil.”
It matches the description of the Yucca Man perfectly, leaving many to wonder… just
what is this thing?
3: The Ballarat Ghost Town One of the creepiest places in any desert
of the world is Ballarat, a very spooky ghost town in California.
Who knows, it could even be home to the Yucca Man.
The town of Ballarat sits at the base of the Panamint Mountains, lonely and hot in seclusion.
The temperature reaches into the 120s in the summer while nights in the winter are brutally
cold.
The town came into existence in 1896 as a base for the miners heading out into the mountains
and canyons around Death Valley.
It had its heyday from between 1897 and 1905, a measly eight years.
In that time, the settlement of 500 people hosted seven saloons, three hotels, a jail
and a morgue, and even a post office and a school.
But what made Ballarat such an unusual mining town is that it didn't have a single church.
This was practically unheard of at the time.
And maybe that is why the town began to decline soon after it was established, with the post
office finally closing in 1917 and everyone leaving except a few lonely prospectors.
Over the years, Ballarat somehow remained standing.
Even the old graveyard is there to see today.
But be careful.
Many visitors to Ballarat report seeing ghosts loitering about the decrepit old buildings
and the faded tombstones.
2: The Cave of Horrors The story of Kenny Veach is one of horror
and intrigue.
Kenny went on a short overnight trip into the Sheep Mountains of Nevada, deep in the
desert in late 2014.
Kenny was 47 years old and an experienced desert hiker.
He never came back from that overnight trip.
To this date, Kenny has never been found and nobody knows what happened to him.
But it's not Kenny's disappearance that’s so spooky.
Instead, it's what he found prior to vanishing off the face of the earth.
Before his final overnight trip into the desert, Kenny had gone for one of his usual desert
hikes.
During the hike, he discovered a strange cave in the middle of the Mojave.
The cave, upon Kenny's approach, gave him a feeling he really didn't like.
He suddenly trembled with fear and felt great trepidation.
So, Kenny ran away from the cave.
He uploaded a video on YouTube describing to his followers what happened to him.
They wanted him to go back and film the mysterious cave.
Kenny agreed to do that.
He went back into the wilderness, this time with his camera and a pistol.
He was ready to find what he had called “M Cave” because its entrance was shaped like
an M. But he couldn't find it.
His followers were extremely disappointed.
Kenny agreed to go searching a third time.
He took all the necessary precautions, he brought his 9mm, and he set off.
He has never returned and nobody has seen Kenny since.
It’s also important to know that no one has ever found the mysterious M Cave.
1: The Marree Man The Marree Man is a mysterious geoglyph in
the middle of the desert.
He’s located in the dust near the small town of Marree, over 350 miles from the nearest
major city.
The geoglyph itself is enormous, over 2.2 miles from head to toe.
It's so big that it can be seen from space, and was even photographed by NASA’s Operational
Land Imager in 2019.
According to NASA, nobody knows who created the enormous geoglyph or what its purpose
was, but it has been there at least since 1998 when a pilot noticed it while flying
over South Australia.
The Marree Man is a lot like the Nazca lines.
Somebody at some point carved the shape of a hunter holding either a stick or a boomerang
into the desert floor.
But unlike the Nazca lines, the Marree Man is alone.
He is the only geoglyph in the area.
He’s also striking to see from the air, as he is literally massive.
He’s the biggest drawing of a person in the world.
He's also quite detailed.
One of the reasons he looks so clear is that in 2013 when NASA was snapping photos of the
Marree Man, they noticed his color was fading.
Local Australians then teamed together to restore the Marree Man to his previous glory,
redrawing his lines to make him distinct again.
They also created wind grooves in the sand so that in the future, the Marree Man might
turn green.
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