From secret military bases in Antarctica to inconceivably ancient formations here are
10 unsolved, Google maps mysteries.
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I can smell the conspiracies already.
Number 10: Iraq's Blood Red Lake.
There is as yet no official explanation for why this otherwise normally Green Lake appears
in red.
Some people seem to believe it may simply be the result from a fault with the satellite
camera, although it's equally likely to be sewage pollution, water treatment processes
or the dumping of waste blood from nearby slaughter houses.
The best explanation may be that minerals or red argue where the root of the problem.
All I can say for definite is that this is reason 13,762 for why I'm not going to Iraq.
Number 9: Steppe Geoglyphs.
A Geoglyphs is basically a crop circle except in dirt or otherwise durable elements, such
as rocks.
The Steppe Geoglyphs are a collective of at least 260 earthworks in Kazakhstan.
Most of which are small and made from stones or dug out earth.
They were first spotted on Google earth in 2007, by Dimitri day, a Kazakh archaeology
enthusiast who noted that even with the images, they were difficult to spot on closer inspection
from the ground.
Some of the most famous ones, such as these shape formations have been given names, for
example Ishtar Gate Square which measures approximately half a kilometre across and
the Turgay Triradial Swastika, which is found directly south about 50 miles away and led
radicals to speculate about Nazi involvement.
Optical dating results by NASA, indicate that they date between 8 and 1000 years old, which
astonishingly makes them over 3 million older than the Egyptian pyramids.
They believe the purpose of at least some of them may be related to tracking the rising
sun.
Though, even with NASA's help the mystery of their history and purpose remains.
Number 8: Marree Man.
As mysterious as extremely old geoglyphs may sound.
It's arguably stranger when inconceivably large ones show up practically overnight.
And that's pretty much what happened in this case.
The Marree man was mysteriously spotted by a pilot named Trevor wright on June 26th,
1998 in a very remote location in the middle of the Australian desert.
And just thought to be a hunter holding a boomerang.
How very Australian!
It measures 4.2 kilometres long from head to toe and approximately 28 kilometers of
lines were dug out.
The lines are 35 meters wide and about a foot deep.
Imagine how difficult that would have been to carve when you'd have to remove all kinds
of vegetation and then dispose of the dirt, because it wasn't just thrown aside.
Some people think it was done with machinery and tractors using GPS technology, but this
was 1998 and that type of tech wasn't as sophisticated as it is now.
Not only that no footprints or tire tracks were discernible at the site, the puzzle remains
on site.
Number 7: Cerne Abbas Giant.
Also more appropriately known as the rude man.
It stands at 55 meters long and 51 meters wide.
It is carved into the hillside of Cerne Abbas just north of Dorchester England, its origin
date and purpose are unknown.
Most scholars tend to agree It's either a symbol of fertility or the representation
of the Roman hero Hercules, which even by package comparison seems unlikely.
Local folklore claims the figure is the actual outline of a real giant that came from Denmark
and was soundly defeated by the local villages as he slept on the hill.
If true, then obviously this giant was wielding two huge clubs, although we may never figure
out the entire mystery.
It's an important part of the local culture and we talk every 25 years to preserve its
features.
Number 6: Badlands Guardian.
The locals never knew they were being watched by this geological phenomenon.
It looks disconcertingly like a human head wearing a native American head dress.
The face formation located in Alberta; Canada is supposedly entirely natural.
The result of clay erosion, apparently, needless to say, many people refuse to believe that
a geological Marvel that appears so human like is simply a coincidence.
If you look close enough, it looks like he's wearing a pair of earphones, but that section
is actually a manmade road and oil well.
Even the Badlands Guardian it seems, isn't immune to exploratory drilling.
What's puzzling that this isn't the only face that appears to protrude from the ground.
In Hungary you can find what looks like the face of Jesus that is only if you believe
that Jesus actually looks like this.
Number 5: Crop circle.
Aliens have been trying to communicate with us puny humans for years now, usually via
the confusing medium of drawing circles in our fields.
As you can tell I'm a bit sceptical when it comes to the whole aliens creating art out
of our food thing, but even I cannot deny that some of these are pretty astonishing.
Given that there are hundreds to choose from here are just a few of the most mysterious
once.
There's quite a few scattered around England, and I don't know what it is about these triangles,
but that pretty popular.
Some scientists and meteorologists have suggested that factors, including magnetism and weather,
such as freak tornadoes may have caused them, other explanations of course, blame extra-terrestrial
beings.
If true, evidently, they haven't fully developed a grasp of our primitive languages as seen
in this childishly rude example.
What oh, mighty alien life forms are you trying to tell us!
Number 4: Pisco Valley Band of Holes.
In Southwestern Peru resides a trail of holes of various sizes and depths that are carved
into barren rock and migrate around a mile northbound in perfect formation.
With occasional clear gaps this so-called band of holes baffles locals, just as much
as Archaeologists.
No one really realized the bigger picture until the area was viewed from the air and
best guesses point to them being some kind of ancient grain storage site.
This seems unlikely though, because there are much easier ways to stall grains than
to chip all of these out.
Alternative theories suggest that burial sites composed of single vertical tombs.
Again!
Good try!
But no bones artifacts teeth or even strands of hair have ever been found in them.
Neither theory held up too much scrutiny.
I guess you could say there are holes in their arguments!
All joking aside, just east of the acne rocks is what looks like remnants of an ancient
city.
So, these markings were probably created by humans.
Numbers 3: Nazca Lines.
The most well-known geoglyphs in the world are undoubtedly the Nazca lines of coastal
Peru.
The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds,
monkeys, fish, sharks, orcas, and lizards.
They're made from removing reddish pebbles to create shallow lines, meaning that only
visible from a few hundred meters above the desert plateau.
Despite in some cases being over 200 meters across.
It's has been suggested that they were useful navigation.
Though, their true origin and purpose still puzzles investigators.
More theories point extra-terrestrial runaways or water sourcing religious ceremony.
However, scholars insist that they were most likely created by the Nazca culture between
500 BC and 500AC and have been naturally preserved due to isolation from wind and humidity.
Number 2: Atacama giant.
Not far from the Nazca Lines there's another group of geoglyphs that are equally as impressive.
Although the geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert in Chile are less familiar to most.
They're far more numerous in number, more varied in style and cover a much larger area.
One of the most intriguing and controversial Atacama geoglyphs is called the Atacama giant,
which continues to stir debate regarding its true meaning and interpretation.
At 119 meters tall it's the largest human like figure in the world and believe to be
built around 1000 to 1400 AD.
It certainly looks like some kind of alien, but better explanations exist.
It's unusual features are believe to perform the function of a calendar at different alignments
with the moon.
It could have informed local inhabitants or various calendar events such as the day and
season and when to plant certain crops, why it had to resemble eat sea remains a mystery
though.
Number 1: China's desert mysteries.
The movies would have us believe that all the government's mysteriously secret projects
are hidden in the remotest desert.
Frightfully So, just take a look at these zigzagging lines hidden in the Chinese desert.
There's hardly any information on them and they're huge.
At 1.9 by 1 kilometres in dimension, they have amazingly been able to retain their linear
proportions.
Despite the curvature of the rough terrain, perhaps this is a military test site.
After all these formations are relatively close to huge airstrips.
And other crazy constructions!
This circular formation that encompasses what looks like fighter jets, raises just as many
eyebrows.
Perhaps it's used to calibrate orbital radars or designed to test ways of hiding military
operations from other countries satellites.
It might even just be some sorts of coverup by Google.
There are many more explanations for these gigantic structures, but the most mysterious
thing is invisible.
According to a former CIA analyst, there's someone who has been ordering tons of satellite
photos of this area since 2004, these sorts of projects are mind boggling, just like the
one 20th scale model of a disputed border region between China and India, that China
had also considered and further afield.
But in keeping with the whole military bases constructed in the middle of nowhere thing.
Check out this opening spotted in Antarctica, conspiracy theorists are convinced this is
an entrance to an underground UFO, alien or Nazi base covered with a metal dome or canopy,
less passionate observers are inclined to think it's a natural cave.
Most of these mysteries off thousands of years old and it's hard enough to explain why they
were built; let alone how they were built.
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