From blacked out spaces on Google Earth to deadly forest creatures, here are 9 mysterious
things that can be found in the mountains.
9.
Untersberg Portals
On the German-Austrian border, amid the Berchtesgaden Alps, lies the Untersberg Mountain.
It is one of the most mysterious mountains in the world.
Legends tell of Roman emperors buried in deep tombs, lost civilizations living in chasms,
and strange beasts prowling its forests.
Supposedly, Adolf Hitler who was mesmerized by the occult was obsessed with these mountains.
According to yet another legend, he built a house on a neighboring mountain and observed
Untersberg through telescopes.
Whether he saw anything is unknown.
Visitors to the mountain, however, report missing time and waking up on other parts
of the mountain.
Sometimes, the distances involved are extremely long and could not possibly have been traveled
during the stretch of missing time.
There are many theories ranging from alien abductions to time warps, to portals to other
worlds.
Skeptics, though, suggest that the people who experience these things are really ill,
dehydrated, or somehow fell asleep as they walked.
Austrian writer Stan Wolf claims to have found places on the mountain where his watch ran
faster than other places.
He also claims he found men living in a cave who told him they were SS soldiers from World
War II who hadn’t aged a bit over the decades.
Pretty spooky to me!
8.
The Creatures of Mt. Nyangani
Mt. Nyangani in Zimbabwe has a chilling nickname: the “Swallowing Mountain”.
It gained its name because of how often people disappear while climbing it.
According to local tradition, Mt. Nyangani is a sacred mountain inhabited by ancestral
spirits.
It’s also said to be haunted by evil spirits and other supernatural creatures.
Locals warn that if travelers come across a colorful snake, a pot with no fire, or a
brick of gold, then it’s best to ignore those things and move on.
Also, mischievous spirits are said to push people off ledges.
Visitors often report feeling dizzy, disoriented, and nauseous.
They also report strange sounds, lights, animals that follow them, and trees that twist into
human faces and whisper.
There are even rumors of streams that turn a blood red.
In November 2014, 20-year-old British explorer Thomas Gaisford set out alone to explore the
mountain.
He intended to reach the summit that day and stay overnight.
Later, he claimed a thick fog descended during the climb, which disoriented him.
Heavy rain began to pour.
He decided to camp where he was and wait for the weather to clear.
In the surrounding darkness, various creatures appeared to circle him.
This gave credence to warnings from locals, who told him to ignore any strangely behaving
animals.
Gaisford waited ten hours for the fog to clear.
When it did, he left the mountain as fast as he could.
Others, however, discount his story and say he was dehydrated and had imagined it all.
7.
Snarly Yow
Snarly Yow sounds like a Pokemon but it’s actually a mysterious giant black dog sighted
on South Mountain in Maryland.
Most sightings occur at a places where the old National road cuts across a brook and
canyon.
Some have compared Snarly Yow to the British “black Shuck”.
The difference, though, is that black Shuck is connected tothe imminent death of the eyewitness,
an association that hasn’t extended to Snarly.
Luckily.
Also, witnesses claim Snarly’s coat changes from white to black.
One witness described Snarly Yow as a headless, white dog dragging a chain.
Sightings of this mysterious dog date back to an inn near South Mountain, which was built
in 1790.
The stories at the time had a common format: travelers passing through would have their
horses spooked by a mysterious dog that appeared and then disappeared as soon as the rider
was thrown from his horse.
His penchant for mischief carried over into modern times.
Travelers now report that Snarly leaps out in front of cars.
The driver will swerve to avoid the animal and crash.
As soon as they get out of the vehicle, Snarly growls and bears its fangs before vanishing.
And like a typical dog, the creature enjoys simply chasing cars.
It also frightens hikers by planting itself in their path and refusing to move.
However, it stops short of actually attacking people, which makes it much nicer than the
Dwayyo.
6.
The Snow Saddle
The Nepalese Snow Saddle, or the Kangtega peak, is a mountain summit in the Himalayas.
The peak scrapes the sky at 6,782 meters (22,251 ft) high and was first climbed in 1964.
So far, it sounds like just about any mountain in Nepal.
It certainly isn’t Everest.
What makes this peak strange is that part of one of its sides is blacked out on Google
Earth.
Naturally, when a huge corporation like Google appears to be hiding something, conspiracy
theories appear like mushrooms after the rain.
Some believe it’s a secret base for UFOs or a hangar for testing aircraft.
More down to earth explanations include an accidental glitch.
Yeah whoops Google!!
One site, the Daily Star, suggested it was blacked out because of a dispute with China,
though what that has to do with anything is anyone’s best guess.
I just wanted to see a satellite view of the landscape!
Scot Waring, a UFO blogger, claims the patch coincides with the highest ridge of the mounts
and is away from where climbers would approach the summit.
It is only accessible by air, which makes the black patch all the more mysterious.
Could this be another Area 51?
5.
The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui
Most of us have heard of Bigfoot and Yeti.
But, have you heard of “the Big Grey Man”?
Supposedly, a large, grey creature inhabits Scotland’s Ben Macdhui mountain.
Reports of the creature began in 1889, when Professor Norman Collie reported his experience
while in New Zealand.
He repeated the story again in 1925 at a climber’s club.
He claimed that on his return trip from Ben Macdhui’s summit, he heard a crunching sound,
as if someone was walking behind him.
However, the steps were three or four times the length of his own, indicating it was much
bigger than him.
That sounds somewhat creepy but what makes it worse was that he was hiking back through
thick fog, so the climber couldn’t see anything but could only hear the large, crunching footsteps
coming after him.
Terror engulfed Professor Collie and ran the rest of the way down the mountain.
The experience stayed with him and he refused to return to the mountain alone.
There have been no real eyewitness sightings of the creature.
Instead, people only report sounds, a presence, and, on rare occasions, a large grey shadow.
A strange meteorological phenomenon could explain this.
Called Broken Specter, it only occurs when a gap in the clouds allows the viewer to see
their own shadow cast upon cloud.
In rarer occasions, a rainbow can surround the shadow.
The phenomenon only occurs on certain spots on the mountain.
However, it doesn’t explain the presence or the crunching sound of footsteps.
4.
Dwayyo
Continuing with strange creatures, there is the Dwayyo of the American Appalachians.
The first mention of the name ‘Dwayyo’ or 'Dewayo' appears in 1944 in West Middleton,
Frederick County, Maryland.
Locals heard a creature making terrible screams and, later, they found footprints that couldn’t
be matched to any known creature.
Supposedly, it looks like a bipedal wolf with a bushy tail and stands 7 to 9 feet tall.
Witnesses range from locals to campers and even park rangers.
It’s known for having a nasty attitude and cattle mutilations have been connected to
the Dwayyo.
Dogs are afraid of it, because they know the creature will attack them.
Mutilated corpses of dogs found in the woods have been tied to the Dwayyo.
There are other reports of the creature lunging at passing cars.
A man going under the name “John Becker” reported seeing a 9-foot-tall wolf-man with
bristly hair and a prominent tail.
It came onto his property and provoked his dogs.
When “Becker” investigated, the creature lunged at him and he barely escaped with his
life.
The creature ran off into the woods and back into legend.
3.
Child Sacrifice
Mount Lykaion in Greece has long been associated with Zeus and people often went to worship
there.
An ancient traveler named Pausanius climbed the mountain in the 2nd century A.D. and found
a mound of earth fronted by a pair of Doric columns that were topped with gold eagles.
He later wrote that people made sacrifices to Zeus there but was reluctant to pry into
the details.
He also recorded a legend that a king sacrificed a baby and became a wolf because of it.
Recently, though, a chilling discovery gave credence to the legend.
At least, the human sacrifice part.
Archaeologists discovered a 3,000-year-old skeleton of a teenaged boy at the same location.
While this may or may not be the source of the baby sacrificed by the king, it’s an
important discovery because it proves that the Greeks did participate in human sacrifice
to worship their gods.
And that sometimes, legends are real.
2.
The Berwyn Mountain Incident
The United States isn’t the only place with a Roswell and alien sightings.
Wales is no stranger to mysterious events either.
In January 1974, people reported hearing a loud bang, feeling tremors shaking the ground,
and seeing a blazing light above the Berwyn Mountains in Wales.
When the tremors came through, many fled their homes in fear.
As they ran outside, a lot of people saw the light on the mountain.
Some witnesses feared a plane had crashed.
Others, however, described the light as a “pulsating orange-and-red glow”.
Others from further away reported seeing a fireball descend from the sky.
Supposedly, a landslide also occurred on the mountain.
Police searched the area and claimed to have found nothing.
This only led locals to believe a UFO crash had been covered up.
The official explanation was that a meteorite had crashed into the Earth and caused the
earthquake while also disintegrating before impact.
Naturally, skeptics abound and many wonder what really happened on Berwyn Mountain that
cold, winter night.
1.
The Valley of Headless Men
This doesn’t sound good at all!
Nahanni National Park is part of the Mackenzie Mountains region in Canada.
Despite its pristine, idyllic appearance, the park earned the name “Valley of Headless
Men” for very good and very sinister reasons.
Natives that settled in the area feared the valley because they thought it was evil and
refused to live there.
To this day, there are tons of rumors of UFOs, disappearances, and strange cryptids, including
Bigfoot.
According to legend, the only people to actually settle in the valley, instead of around it,
were the violent Naha tribe, which allegedly consisted of deadly warriors who wore masks
and armor.
They wielded strange and unidentifiable weapons and were larger than normal men.
They loved to decapitate their victims, hence the spooky name of the Valley.
Where are the Naha tribe now?
No one knows.
They supposedly vanished without a trace, although it’s possible they still live there
because the park is largely unexplored.
In 1908, Willie and Frank McLeod, lured by stories of gold nuggets the size of grapes,
went prospecting in the valley.
For a year, no one saw them again until their decapitated bodies were found along the river.
The heads were never found.
9 years later, another miner named Martin Jorgenson tried his luck.
He built a cabin and started a small mining operation.
Then, his cabin burned down and his headless, charred corpse was found among the ruins.
By 1969, 44 people had vanished in the valley.
Today, only adventurous rafters and kayakers traverse the valley and it can only be reached
by plane or boat.
The strangeness hasn’t stopped, as visitors often report strange lights and mysterious,
ape-like creatures strolling among the trees.
Now who wants to go camping???
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