Hello friends i am back with another one!
Im your host Ayman Hasan and welcome back to another video here at most amazing top
10.
Have you ever looked a picture and youre like how is this even possible?
I used to be obsessed with any sort of optical illusion and trying to figure out how it was
done, why it looked the way it did like i had to know absolutely everything.
Similarly in real life there are things that look like theyre scientifically impossible
and if you think of them youd never assume they were real..
But they are.
And thats what this video is.
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But anyway, this is the top 10 Scientifically Impossible Places That Actually Exist.
That was a mouthful.
Starting us off with number 10 is the city of Kalachi.
Kalachi is a rural city located in Kazakhstan, but residents have been facing a really weird
epidemic.
Locals have just been collapsing around the city, in their homes, on the street, everywhere
and afterwards they fall into a deep sleep.
Some have reported hallucinations, memory loss and fatigue and the epidemic spared no
one.
Whether they were male female old young everyone was affected by it.
It got so bad that the country itself recommended that the residents just evacuate the city,
they guessed it could be exposure to radiation poisoning.
that was causing the epidemic since the city is located near a uranium mine.
But blood tests have come up negative for radiation poisoning and another city which
is located even closer to the mine has suffered no negative effects whatsoever.
By January 2015 it was reported that more than half the towns population was planning
on moving somewhere else.
But the mystery was solved in the end.
Apparently it was due to high carbon monoxide levels in the area coming from an abandoned
mine that caused the oxygen levels in the city to decrease.
So on one hand the lack of oxygen is making people pass out left right and center and
on the other hand theyre also slowly getting carbon monoxide poisoning.
Not ideal.
Coming in at number 9 is The Petrifying Well.
And genuinely Ive never seen anything like this before.
The Mother Shiptons cave is located in North Yorkshire England near the town of Knaresborough
(nars-bruh).
The well slightly looks like a skull Im not gonna lie and ive never seen a well look like
a skull so honestly i was shook.
The top part of it which looks like our forehead is so smooth and then it curves in lower down
where the mouth would be and its very freaky.
Its the oldest ‘pay to enter’ tourist attraction in England, opening its doors or
rather cave hole no that sounds wrong cave entrance back in 1630.
And its called a petrifying well because if an object is placed into the well then it
slowly starts to look like stone.
The cave has an unnaturally high mineral content which explains why objects develop that hard
shell but unlike other petrifying wells, the Mother Shipton turns them to stone quicker
than any other location and no one can explain why.
Stalactites and stalagmites take centuries to form yet in the well it takes weeks or
months depending on the size of the object.
The thing that makes the well look even freakier is the fact that the objects turning to stone
have been hung from the little overlay so it just looks like a skull that has stone
like objects hanging off it like a ritual sacrifice of some kind.
At number 8 we have The Boiling River.
And I made the name as straightforward as possible because thats exactly what the Shanay-Timpishka
(shan-eye) tributary of the Amazon River is.
A boiling river.
I know its a tributary but the boiling tributary just doesnt have the same ring to it okay.
But anyway the Shanay Timpishka is known as the only boiling river in the world.
Its a full 6.4 kilometres long and the temperature of the water ranges from 45 to nearly 100
degrees celsius.
For the most part it stays around 90 degrees celsius which is around 194 degrees fahrenheit
which is insane.
Any animal that unfortunately finds itself in there by accident is toast, its eyes would
go first and then it would actually boil from the inside out because it would be too tired
to swim away so it would down.
Very morbid picture i just painted right there sorry about that.
For the most part when a body of water has a higher temperature its because its located
near a volcano or one is feeding into it.
However the closest volcano to the Shanay Timpishka is 700km away so the only plausible
explanation as of right now is that boiling hot water seeps through fault lines into the
river from inside the earth.
Filling our number 7 slot is the Cave That Never Saw The Light.
The Movile (mo-veelay) Cave is located in South-east Romania a few kilometres away from
the Black Sea.
The cave was untouched by any light for 5.5 million years Can you imagine?
Not seeing light ever.
That created a completely different atmosphere in there as opposed to the one found on rest
of the earth.
The air inside the cave has around a third or a half of the normal concentration of oxygen
found in open air and it has 100 times more carbon dioxide.
So the air inside is basically toxic filled with sulphur oxide.
The cave was discovered by workers looking for an area to set up a power plant, they
tested the ground for safety but then cracked up a pathway opening a narrow shaft and then
a bunch of tunnels and then they found the cave.
The lake inside the cave was filled with sulfuric water which smells like what i can only imagine
to be rotten eggs and armpit BO. however despite all that there is a whole ecosystem in there
that has adapted and survived.
48 species were found, 33 of which can only be found in the cave and nowhere else.
They feed off of foam found on the stones inside.
Now at number 6 is the Devils Kettle.
The Brule River is located in Minnesota and as it flows it ends up splitting into two
directions over a cliff sort of structure.
One stream joins into Lake Superior but the other stream flows into the a hole that goes
into the rock cliff structure and has no visible exit.
Literally the water just endlessly flows into the rock, it never overflows but it just goes
somewhere.
Scientists first put dye in the kettle to see which part of the lake turned that colour
but their effort was useless because they found nothing in any part of the river.
They then tried putting a whole lot of ping pong balls down there and again they vanished
and didnt resurface anywhere.
And i mean how is that possible the water has to be going somewhere and being stored
somewhere
Coming in at number 5 are the Circles of Namibia.
In the grasslands of the Namibian desert there is are a bunch of circles ranging from 2 to
15 m in diameter that just have no grass growing in them whatsoever.
The circles are all evenly spaced out and perfectly created and the scientists have
been unable to figure out why no grass is growing inside the circles and why they take
the form of circles to begin with.
Why not any other random shape?
In 2013 Norbert Juergens thought termites could be the reason for the lack of grass
but after testing it out 2 years later the hypothesis was disproven.
Till 2014 these circles werent found anywhere but this desert but then ecologists found
some similar circles of vegetation in a part of the Pilbara in Australia.
The most favoured explanation for these grass circles is that due to competition for water,
the plants organise themselves in a circle in order to maximise their access to the scarce
water resource.
Either way when some of these pictures were giving me trypophobia so lets move on.
At number 4 is the Radioactive Lake.
Lake Karachay (kara-chay) is located in Ural (you-ral) mountains in Russia.
From 1951 onwards the Soviet Union used the lake as a dumping site for radioactive waste
form a neatby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility.
The lakes water had more radioactive material in it than anywhere else on earth, its more
radioactive than Chernobyl and Chernobyl hasnt been populated since the explosion.
Its so bad that if you stood near it you would die within an hour.
I dont like those odds.
But not to worry the lake was finally covered in concrete to try and lessen the danger around
the area yet its still super unstable and radioactive.
I cant even imagine whats happened to any animal thats ever drank water from this lake.
Filling our number 3 slot are the Hessdalen Lights (hess-de-lin).
The lights can be found in the rural center of Norway overlooking the Hessdalen Valley.
Locals can see floating lights of red, white and yellow all over the night sky everyday,
the lights move they flash they dance around and they shift shapes and this event has been
happening for over 4 decades yet not many people know about it let alone what causes
it.
One theory was that lake below is radioactive and the radon inside rides dust particles
and when it becomes elevated it decays and then produces lights.
Another theory suggests that the base of the lake valley has sulfuric acid which reacts
to the water producing coloured sparks.
But neither of these hypotheses have been proven so to this day we have no idea where
the lights magically come from but since theyre stunning no ones really complaining either.
Now at number 2 are the Neverending Storms.
Thats not a clickbaity title i promise i would not do that to you guys.
Over the Catatumbo river in Western Venezuela, there are lightning storms everyday starting
at 7pm and lasting for 10 hours and this happens 260 days in the year.
I really wasnt exaggerating about neverending.
No one knows exactly why the storms happen but the most favoured theory is that the shape
of the mountains nearby cause warm winds to collide with cold air coming from the Andes,
that collision of wind and air is made worse by methane from a nearby oil field and the
rapidly evaporating water below.
But that hypothesis hasnt been proven so the occurrence is still a mystery.
The weirdest part is is that in 2010 one day the storm just stopped of all of a sudden
and it ceased to continue for 6 weeks.
Locals thought the storms were done for good but alas they were wrong and the storms started
up again.
But honestly i guess it really depends on if youre someone who likes storms or doesnt
like storms.
If youre the former than i guess you can carry on and go about your daily life but if youre
the latter and you live nearby the area then youre screwed to be honest.
But at least you know what the weather will be like everyday.
I mean theres a positive.
Youll never be surprised that theres a storm.
And finally at number 1 is the Blue Fire Crater.
The Ijen (e-jen) volcano complex is a grouping of composite volcanoes located in East Java
Indonesia.
And a group of volcanoes is pretty exciting on their own I reckon but what makes them
even more exciting are the electric blue flames that come out from them.
And oh my god are they stunning.
A sulfur mine was built in the side of one of the volcanoes since there is no danger
of any eruption.
The blue glow comes from the combustion of sulfuric gases that emerge from the cracks
inside the volcanoes at high temperatures and pressures.
When the gases come in contact with air, they combust and shoot 5 meter flames into the
air.
Wait it gets cooler.
A lot of the gase condenses into liquid sulfur and thats glowing blue as well as it flows
down the slopes.
Just imagine electric blue lava and fire coming out of a volcano its such a sight to see.
The air is toxic so when miners are in the area working they have to wear masks but sadly
most of them cant afford masks so they used wet clothes.
Locals knew about the phenomenon for 40 plus years but it wasnt really brought given much
attention until National Geographic posted an article about it and tourist numbers increased.
They never used to offer midnight hikes before but now they do so you can see the blue glow
at night at its prettiest.