Hello my curious! Be all welcome to a new video.
In today's video I have prepared a list for you
with 10 strange things found in statues
that will surely surprise you.
From illegal substances found in World Cup replicas,
to the discovery of a corpse inside a sculpture in a children's park.
This does sound scary, right?
Only before we start with the topic I have a little question for you.
In my previous video, the one with the 10 disturbing recordings you should never listen to
I told you about an audio that NASA captured
on one of the planets of our solar system...
Do you happen to remember on which planet they made that disturbing recording?
If you watched my previous video you probably already know the answer,
and if not, well, you screwed up.
Anyway, here I am going to leave these four options on your screen,
choose the option that you think is correct
and write it down here in the comments right now,
at the end of the video I will tell you on which planet that happened
and let's see if you got your answer right, okay?
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In May of the year 2021
one of the most disturbing finds was made inside a statue,
a father and his son were walking normally in a park
when they discovered that inside this dinosaur-shaped sculpture
there was a lifeless person, a corpse.
They got a huge scare obviously
and decided to call the police instantly,
a few minutes later the place was cordoned off
and investigations began to try to discover what had happened.
How is it that a person was inside a sculpture of a dinosaur in a playground?
That doesn't make sense, does it?
A few hours later it was learned that the body belonged to a 39-year-old man
who had been reported missing a few days earlier,
his family had been looking for him for two days and they didn't know anything about him,
apparently it was not the first time that the man was lost for so long,
only this time the outcome was not pretty.
According to the police there were two hypotheses about how this man ended up in there,
the first was that he entered the sculpture to spend the night,
it was very cold and the man decided to get inside the sculpture,
but he could no longer escape and died of suffocation or something like that.
And the other hypothesis is that he accidentally dropped some personal object inside the statue
and when he tried to get in to get it out, he couldn't get out,
and he lost his life because no one could hear him to help him out.
I don't know about you, but those theories don't convince me.
Anyway, whatever the reason,
this is one of the most disturbing findings
that have been made inside a statue.
In 2013 a man made a rather disturbing discovery
inside a Buddha statue.
Do you know what he found?
The mummified remains of a monk
who had passed away more than 1000 years ago, can you believe it?
Years before the discovery, the man bought this pure bronze Buddha figure
because he thought it was very pretty,
he had it at his house in a special place where he showed all his friends,
but one day it occurred to him that he would do a restoration
because he had some marks and details that he didn't like,
so he sent it to a group of experts to have it restored.
It was at that moment that he discovered that something was wrong with that statue,
it weighed more than normal and was sealed in a different way,
so they sent it for a CT scan to see what was inside
and to his surprise they discovered that there were the remains of a person inside,
until that moment they did not know who it was
nor why he was inside the statue.
When the matter was investigated further
it was discovered that he was a Buddhist monk who had 'self-mummified'.
This 'self-mummification' is a long and hard process,
it may take several years to achieve this.
The monks stop eating
and they only drink water mixed with salt while slowly meditating until death.
Although some monks usually do
it is very rare that his remains are kept inside a statue...
- Screw you! - Benny...
Where are you going with that Buddha sculpture?
An Australian auction house made a rather curious discovery
inside a 14th century Buddhist sculpture.
One day in the year 2016
the director of the auction house was taking a look at this ancient bust
when he discovered something you don't usually find every day.
Folded into a small slot was a strange piece of paper scribbled in the Chinese language,
at first he didn't know what it was or if it was important.
The first thing he thought is that perhaps it was some note with indications of the time,
but nothing relevant.
Hours later he found a big surprise.
Turns out that paper was actually a bill from more than 700 years ago,
it was one of the first banknotes in Chinese history.
That's cool, right?
Obviously that ticket no longer has any monetary value,
if you go to the corner store with this thing, you're likely to get kicked out,
but it does have great historical value.
I mean, how many 700-year-old banknotes in excellent condition must there be?
Surely very few or perhaps this is the only one.
The director of the auction house was proud of his find
and he said it was the greatest discovery of his life.
Ancient Buddhist sculptures are famous for having hidden treasures inside,
it is common to find blankets, relics and even corpses,
but such an old bill had never been found.
With the current inflation
I think this bill must be worth less than a penny.
In the year 2017
a person discovered something unusual inside a statue of Jesus Christ
almost 300 years old.
It was a handwritten note that had quite curious details,
but the strangest part of the matter
is that the note had been placed on the butt of the statue.
Wow! That's weird.
They could have hidden it anywhere else on the statue,
like the head or the legs,
but for some unknown reason they decided to put it in the butt.
Like many of these discoveries,
they found it when they were restoring the statue,
the passage of time had given it a bad look
and it was time for maintenance.
It was at that moment that the group of workers noticed a hidden compartment
under a cloth that covered the butt of the statue
and decided to open it to see what it hid,
to their surprise there was a rather curious note
written by a man named Joaquín Mínguez
who was a chaplain who lived in the late 1700s.
In the note there were several details of life in those years.
For example, he wrote that he had harvested wheat, oats, and barley
and that he had a lot of wine stored.
He also wrote that typhoid fever had plagued his village
and that they often played ball to have a good time.
It was as if he knew that someone would find the note someday in the future
and he wanted to tell a little about his life in those years.
A note as curious as this is not something you come across often, my friend.
A few years ago in Verona, Italy,
it was discovered that a bronze statue of Juliet,
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet story,
it had hundreds of keys and love letters inside it.
People are sick, bro!
Items were discovered in 2015
when they were doing a restoration to the statue for Valentine's Day,
the men who carried out the restoration
noticed that there was something strange with the statue
and discovered all those keys and love letters from complete strangers.
The statue of Juliet was sculpted in 1969
and settled in the city of Verona
because it is considered that here was the hometown of the fictional Juliet.
Over the years, the sculpture gradually deteriorated.
since the tourists passed touching the body of the sculpture
to have good luck in love...
I don't know if that works
but constantly touching it made the statue wear down and eventually crack.
Tourists seeing the cracks
had the brilliant idea to insert love letters into the sculpture
so that their love would fall at their feet.
And there were also many keys.
The custom is that lovers write their names on padlocks
and then they have to hide the key somewhere,
what better place to hide that key than the sculpture of Juliet, right?
When they repaired the sculpture
the workers found a pile of letters and keys,
obviously they threw all this in the trash
and sealed the sculpture again,
so now many people have bad luck in love because of them.
In year 1955 a group of workers were moving a statue of Buddha,
it seemed ordinary,
but it hid something inside that no one imagined.
During the transfer the statue fell by accident
and it was at that moment that they discovered something surprising,
what looked like a clay statue,
it was actually made of 18-carat gold inside,
so its monetary value was not a few dollars,
but millions of dollars.
It seems that the statue was covered with stucco,
but it only had a thin outer layer that camouflaged it,
everything inside was pure gold.
When the workers accidentally dropped it
the stucco cracked revealing its true appearance.
Can you imagine what these people felt when they saw a golden flash
when the statue fell?
What appeared to be an accident
became a news that went around the world,
It was not just any statue,
but one that measures almost three meters high,
it weighs about five and a half tons.
It is a huge thing made of gold.
How is it that no one had realized that it was made of pure gold?
Historians believe that someone put stucco around it so it would go unnoticed
because they could steal it from the temple where it was.
Those were complicated times in that country when that happened,
so they believed that the best thing was to camouflage it
and that's how it went for several decades,
and it seems that they forgot that it was made of pure gold.
The value of the statue is estimated at $250,000,000 USD.
A great find, no doubt.
In 2018 a group of people were arrested
after concealing a white powder, which I cannot mention for obvious reasons,
inside replicas of the World Cup.
In each trophy they hid a kilo and a half of that matter that we all know what it is called,
but I can't say it out loud because they can remove this video.
I know that this is not a statue as such,
but the case seemed quite curious to me,
so I decided to include it in this list.
The criminal organization came up with the idea
that it would be a great idea create replicas of the 'World Cup'
since it was time for the 2018 Russia World Cup
and inside they hid that forbidden matter.
They knew it would be difficult to arouse suspicion with an object like this,
if the police stopped them they were not going to suspect a replica of the World Cup,
but they have been wrong.
For several days they went unnoticed
and they carried out their illegal business with total normality
until the authorities began to suspect the matter
and things got out of hand.
They were discovered and a total of ten people were arrested
and went straight to jail.
Although it seemed like a brilliant idea, in the end the move turned out so badly...
- Bullsh*t! - Benny...
I'm not going to buy you 500 World Cup replicas.
At the end of the year 2021
a group of workers unearthed two time capsules
135 years old
while removing a statue in Virginia, United States.
One of the capsules contained an almanac, a silver coin,
a cloth envelope and a copy of a book.
And the other capsule had a Bible inside it,
masonic symbols and flags, handwritten letters
and other small objects of the time.
Let's just say nothing out of the ordinary or some impressive artifact.
But hey, it's not every day you dig up two 135-year time capsules, right?
The objects had been damaged
because water had leaked into the capsules,
but they were still in fair condition.
Interestingly, these two time capsules were already known,
its existence was already known.
The city leaders were aware that 135 years ago
these boxes had been buried under a statue for posterity,
so that the people of the future, that is, us,
could see significant things from the year 1887.
Although this finding was not surprising
because the existence of these boxes was already known,
it is not bad at all to open a box with objects that are more than 100 years old,
don't you think?
At the 'Venetian' hotel, one of the most luxurious hotels in Las Vegas,
a secret was discovered in one of his statues
that had gone unnoticed for several years
although it was almost in full view of everyone.
Near the hotel registration desk
there is a sculpture composed of an armillary sphere and four sirens,
at first glance it looked like any sculpture,
but one day, a person who works in the hotel
noticed that one of the sirens had a strange cut on her breasts,
as if hiding something inside
and indeed it was,
there was something hidden inside.
So one night the hotel staff decided to inspect what it was
and they discovered something rather curious.
It was a colorful three-dimensional diorama of the canals of Venice
made of wood, resin, paint and other materials.
For years this work of art had gone unnoticed,
although thousands of people took pictures with this sculpture every year,
no one had noticed.
One day in the year 2014
one of the strangest finds was made inside a statue,
while restoring a sculpture in a church in Mexico
some people discovered real human teeth inside.
Can you believe it?
To date, it is not known who they belong to or how they got there,
those responsible for making the news public
were people from the Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico.
After investigating the case they discovered that the sculpture dated from the 18th century,
but how did these teeth get inside the statue?
It is common for some religious people to donate things for these sculptures,
for example, sometimes they donate hair to make the wig.
It is believed that someone in the 18th century was willing to donate their teeth
to be placed inside this sculpture.
That is not something very often that is said,
other types of things are donated and it is very rare to see them donate teeth,
so it was an unusual find.
The sculpture is located in a temple of Zumpango in Mexico,
I thought it was a rather curious find.
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