From whispering ghosts to mysterious lifeforms hiding in the dark, here are ten of the creepiest
things discovered in mines.
10: The Whispering Ghosts A man decided to explore an old, abandoned
gold mine.
Rather than having a fun adventure or discovering something incredible, this guy unwittingly
walked into a nightmare of his own making.
He filmed his descent into the cavernous depths of the mine, which is already a scary thing
to do, but when he hit the floor, he managed to record a host of creepy whispering voices
as if there were spirits living inside the mine!
The mine he went into dates back 150 years.
It's called the Waldeck Mine, located in Australia.
To be honest, it was already creepy even before the whispering voices began.
The brave explorer started walking to the chorus of the ghostly whispers, so he stopped.
The moment he stopped, the voices stopped as well.
But the moment he began moving again, the whispers commenced and grew even louder.
Was it a warning of some kind??
He couldn't figure out if it was the wind, if there were birds, maybe a hive of snakes
stirring inside somewhere making the terrible noise – or just what in the world was going
on.
But he got so spooked that he turned the camera around and fled the mine as quickly as he
could.
He said that he has heard some weird stuff before but that this was definitely creepy.
Some people have since claimed the mine is filled with demons, others say the whispering
voices may have come from the spirits of miners who perished long ago in the old and abandoned
mine, warning him to get out!
9: The Tsar’s Bones One of the greatest mysteries of the 20th
century is what happened to the missing Romanovs.
The last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, along with his wife and children were taken by Russian
Revolutionaries and transported from place to place.
In 1918, the Bolsheviks shocked the world when they announced they had killed the czar.
The new government announced that his wife and children were being cared for in an undisclosed
location but after many months, it was suspected the family had also been murdered by a firing
squad.
For many years the circumstances surrounding their death remained a secret until the fall
of the Soviet Union.
In 1991, in a Russian mine, the bones of the lost czar were found after seventy years.
Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their kids were all brutally assassinated
in 1918 and then their remains were tossed casually into a mineshaft at the edge of Ekaterinburg.They
tried to cover their tracks by throwing a grenade after them but it was too shallow,
and they were forced to cast them back down into the mine shaft again.
Locals had heard rumors and had found bones but were so afraid of the consequences that
they had covered them back up again.
The mineshaft was found buried deep in the woods where not many would think to look.
The Russian orthodox church feared that it was just another false discovery, but scientists
were able to compare the DNA of the bones in the shaft to blood from a shirt that Nicholas
II had worn during an assassination attempt in Japan back in 1891.
Because of a rare genetic mutation in his blood, the match was easy.
These were definitely his bones, and the bones of his family.
Except two children were missing.
In 2007, their remains were also found 6 miles away from the rest of the family and it was
clear they did not die peacefully.
Those who discovered them said they were glad that finally the children would be reunited
with the rest of their family, laid to rest in St. Petersburg.
8: Mummified Monster At a diamond mine in the remote Siberian town
of Udachny, miners have discovered a treasure of a very unique variety.
Instead of diamonds, these guys stumbled upon what has been called a monster mummy!!
They suspect it could be an ancient dinosaur from millions of years ago!
Either that, or the creature was some kind of wolverine, large rodent, miniature bear,
or something else small and furry with big claws.
Basically, it could be anything!
The average daily temperature where the monster was found is about -110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Because of this, whatever the creepy monster had been in life, it managed to be perfectly
preserved while hiding inside the freezing mine.
The mine itself was actually formed by an atomic bomb that was detonated 322 feet underground
back in 1974.
Some have even speculated the strange creature could be the direct result of atomic radiation.
Scientific experts were quick to rule out any kind of monster.
Regardless of the subzero temperatures now, in the days of the dinosaurs, and indeed for
millions of years after, the landscape would have been different, and warmer.
Based on its teeth and body shape, experts said the monster was probably an otter, a
badger, a weasel, or even a ferret.
Anything that belongs to the Mustelidae animal family – and it probably was not a radioactive
beast.
Even though we don't know right now, we will soon, as the remains of the mummified creature
have been taken to the regional capital of Yakutsk to be properly studied.
And now for number 7, but first would you dare descend into an abandoned mine??
Let me know in the comments below!!
And wanted to give a big shout out to Debborah Lyn Evans and Tasos Saros
7: Skinflint’s Gold Mine In North Carolina, there was a man known as
Skinflint McIntosh.
He owned his very own mine back in the early 1800s and Skinflint was keen on making it
rich.
However, he was a greedy man.
To make more money, he sought the expert services of a veteran miner named Joe McGee.
Joe quickly became concerned because of how little Skinflint seemed to care about the
safety of his workers.
So, Joe asked Skinflint that if he were to die, could he pay his widow a handsome $1000
in life insurance.
In response, Skinflint said he would double it and pay her $2000!
So, Joe went to work in the mines.
But unfortunately, Joe didn't make it home one night.
His wife gathered a small search party and they went down into Skinflint’s mine but
couldn't find the guy anywhere.
There was no sign of him and it didn't even seem that there had been a cave-in.
Several weeks passed and it was obvious Joe had died under very suspicious circumstances.
So, his widow went to Skinflint McIntosh and demanded her $2000.
Instead of paying her, Skinflint claimed her husband had left her and run away, so he wasn't
giving her a dime.
Then he slammed the door in her face.
This is where the story gets a little eerie.
Joe apparently showed up to his friend’s house as a ghost and told him that Skinflint
had cut costs on building the mine and the unsafe timbers had given way and he had died
in the collapse.
The next day, the man led everyone back into the mine and they discovered Joe’s body
right where the ghost had promised.
McIntosh paid the widow her $2000.
But the whole point is that even to this very day, Skinflint’s mine is haunted by the
ghost of Joe – who can be heard wailing and crying deep in the dark and creepy shafts
of the mine.
6: Killing Fields Something absolutely horrifying was discovered
inside a mine shaft in Zimbabwe.
Over 600 bodies were found in a remote part of the country, buried indiscriminately inside
of a disused gold mine.
They raised a huge stir in the country because nobody was quite sure where the bodies had
come from.
What had happened here??
Who were these people??
Some claimed the bodies were the victims of colonial atrocities committed by the British
forces back in the 1900s.
Journalists argue that supporters of the president are using this argument as propaganda.
The president told everyone to go visit the mine to observe human rights violations first
hand and for schools to take the children on field trips to the horrific site.
But evidence found by scientists pointed to something different.
The remains are much more recent, with pathologists saying the bodies were likely less than 30
years old.
They may have been the victims of politically motivated murders and election violence.
The exhumed skeletons were placed in piles with sheets and blankets.
Hair and clothing was clearly visible and researchers and journalists were shocked at
the stench.
Maryna Steyn, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Pretoria in South Africa,
said human remains should not retain a strong stench after 30 years.
'Usually, when we have remains that are lying around for more than a few years, the bones
are no longer odorous,' she said This part of the country saw extreme fighting
with president Mugabe’s guerrilla forces taking over and it is most likely that these
people are from that time period.
5: Car Graveyard 200 feet underground in Britain, a mysterious
car graveyard filled with over 100 vehicles likely from the 1970s has been discovered.
The trashed remains of the cars were found dumped at the bottom of an abandoned mine
once used for harvesting slate.
The discovery was made in north Wales, with the cars themselves piled high in the stagnant
mine water.
The rusted old vehicles were actually discovered by urban explorers who had to spelunk into
the mine using rope, climbing down vertically 65 feet to its bottom.
And there, hidden beneath the ground, a small army of abandoned vehicles.
But just what were these vehicles doing trapped inside the mine?
Nobody's really sure.
The slate mine opened way back in 1836 and quarrying went on at the site until 1960 when
it was abruptly abandoned.
Seeing as the cars seem to be from the 70s, they must have been dumped into the mine much
later.
Perhaps someone had used it as a dumping ground for scrapped cars.
It’s impossible to say what happened, or even how in the world they got all the cars
down there in the first place.
4: Tommyknockers Tommyknockers may just be the creepiest things
that do or don't exist inside of mines.
The legend of the Tommyknockers goes back centuries.
Whenever old miners heard knocks coming from inside a mine, they took it as a sign that
the mine was about to collapse.
This was almost always correct.
To makes sense of the mysterious knocking, miners came up with the legend of the Tommyknockers,
who were said to be small men dressed in mining outfits who warned miners before disaster.
They are believed to be the spirits of miners who died in the mine.
They can either warn living miners of disaster or be mischievous if the miners disrespect
their presence.
Oddly enough, the Tommyknockers are not a local phenomenon, meaning they've allegedly
been spotted by miners all over the world.
They’re said to be about 2 feet tall, looking like disgruntled little gnomes.
They are sometimes accompanied by strange glowing lights and weird mist.
The deeper into the ground the miners tunnel, the more likely they are to come across Tommyknockers.
They’re also known for eating miners’ lunches, knocking off their hats, and hiding
their tools.
Of course, Tommyknockers probably aren't real and were just superstitious nonsense dreamed
up by miners as a way to cope with the grungy, scary, and often deadly conditions in which
they worked.
But, better to be safe than sorry and respect the knocking sounds, just in case!!
3: Bicycle Pete At the Sterling Hill Mine in Ogdensburg, there
were 77 deaths between 1897 and 1986.
It was operated by the New Jersey Zinc Company, and ever since its closure, people have reported
witnessing paranormal activity inside the creepy confines of the abandoned mine.
This includes sightings of shadowy figures, whispers and voices, and ghostly faces appearing
in the windows of buildings.
There are over 65 miles of tunnels here – and according to some people, each inch of them
is haunted to this very day.
At its deepest, the mine is 2850 feet below the surface, with 19 levels of pure psychological
horror!
One of the most famous legends having to do with the mine is somebody named Bicycle Pete.
After the mine shut down in 1986, young Pete continued to ride his bike around the town
until one day he vanished without a trace and was never seen again.
His bicycle was later recovered from inside the mine shaft, and his ghost was soon seen
haunting the place.
Locals in the area believe Pete was coaxed into the mine by malevolent spirits – and
now he’s lingering near the entrance, doing the same and trying to tug strangers into
the mine to die.
2: Mammoth Bones A mining crew in Canada discovered a collection
of very strange bones while working inside of a mine in Dawson City, Yukon.
The team had been busy excavating at Little Flake Mine when they came across a mysterious
giant tusk.
The miners continued digging, at which point they began to find bones nearly as large as
the miners themselves.
It turned out the miners had stumbled upon an ancient burial ground of mammoths!
Mammoths aren't really creepy, though finding a five-foot thigh bone can certainly be a
little off-putting when working inside a mine.
According to what one of the workers told the CBC, it was one of the best days he had
ever had at work.
Throughout the day, he was picking bones, teeth, and all kinds of other things out of
the dirt.
Of course, none of the miners got to keep the bones.
The Yukon government quickly stepped in and took possession of all the uncovered artifacts.
The government said they would take them back and study them.
What's really interesting is that these were not the first mammoth bones to be found in
the Yukon.
Just a few years prior, miners working in the Klondike gold field came across a complete
mammoth skull over 3 feet long.
It was found by a night-shift employee while digging in the mud with an excavator.
1: Creepy Life Forms 350 miles from Toronto is the Kidd Mine, where
Canadian workers mine zinc and copper.
It's one of the deepest mines on the planet.
7900 feet beneath the surface of the ground, in complete darkness and where the water has
not been disturbed for nearly two billion years, miners discovered a plethora of strange
and creepy life forms.
According to NBC News, scientists had doubted anything could live in such hostile and extreme
conditions.
But in July of 2019 when a team of researchers from the University of Toronto inspected the
mine, they reported finding a population of exceptional living microbes.
Of course, they didn't find creepy bats or giant worms so deep beneath the surface.
Instead, they found single-celled organisms living inside the mine.
These organisms are unique because they don't need oxygen.
They breathe sulfur compounds.
And rather than needing sunlight to thrive, they get nourishment from the chemicals in
the surrounding rocks.
One of their favorite minerals for eating is called pyrite, also known as fool’s gold.
This was actually an exciting discovery for the world because scientists say that if life
can survive nearly 8000 feet beneath the rock inside a shallow cavity devoid of oxygen and
sunlight, life can almost certainly develop under any condition, meaning there could be
lifeforms on planets that we previously thought uninhabitable.
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