10.
Noah’s Ark Noah's Ark may have just been discovered in
the Turkish mountains.
3-dimensional scans conducted by biblical archaeologists using ground penetrating radar
have revealed the exact shape of a giant boat buried underneath a mountain.
Even more amazing is that this location is the same place where the ark is said to have
stopped after the flood in the Book of Genesis.
The discovery fits perfectly with what’s written in the Bible.
But of course, nobody has actually started digging to see if there is a boat under the
mountain.
This could very well just be a geological formation; it could just be the way Mount
Tendurek looks.
But according to Andrew Jones, long-time ark hunter who was involved with the study, this
is almost definitely Noah’s great ship.
He says the result of their survey shows a man-made object underneath heaps of debris,
likely caused by a mudflow.
In other words, the ark landed here before being buried by a giant landslide.
We just won't know the truth until archaeologists get permission to go down there and start
digging.
9.
Alien Abduction in the Mountains In September of 1961, a Canadian couple named
Betty and Barney Hill were on their way to Portsmouth from Montreal.
They were going on their honeymoon vacation.
But as they drove through the mysterious White Mountains in New Hampshire, they experienced
what they described as an alien abduction!
This is one of the stranger cases of alien abductions that we know about.
They were both respected members of society, Betty was a social worker and Barney was a
postal worker.
In other words, they weren't crazy.
And yet they both had the same story about what happened in the mountains that day.
They first saw light in the sky that appeared to be following them.
Eventually, the light was following so close that the couple pulled over to see what was
going on.
They took out a pair of binoculars to try and get a better look, and they were shocked
to see that they were being followed by some kind of flying saucer!
They quickly got back in the car and tried to drive away, and that was when the object
came in closer and hovered right above their car!
Betty and Barney described it as being the size of a jet except flat as a pancake.
It was around this point where both of them lost consciousness.
They woke up the next morning in their vacation house in Portsmouth with no recollection of
how they got there.
This became one of the biggest and most mysterious alien abductions in US history.
There's even a plaque detailing their story in the White Mountains.
So, if you're driving through here at night, be aware of the danger!
8.
Primitive Lovers A pair of cavemen lovers were just discovered
by Italian authorities way up in the mountains.
It all started when rumors began to circulate in the small town of Moggio Udinese that there
was a couple living in seclusion up on the mountain overlooking the town.
The local police climbed up the mountain to flush the couple out.
After all, you can't just live for free off the land – not in this day and age.
What the authorities discovered was a man in his 50s and his girlfriend, half his age,
with nothing except a pair of sleeping bags and a circular stone fireplace that they had
dug in the dirt.
According to the head forest ranger, the couple went wild six months before and had literally
been living under a rock.
At first, the couple did not want to come down from the mountain.
They said it was their right to live in the wilderness if they wanted to.
But they eventually conceded and allowed the rescue team to bring them down to rejoin civilization.
And believe it or not, the woman had actually given birth to a baby girl inside an alpine
hut just before they went wild!
She handed the baby over to a family member and then ran off into the woods with her boyfriend.
He’d told her that he would build a forest cabin for them to live in, but they ended
up just hiding under a rock instead.
The couple has since been released to do whatever they please by the authorities.
As of now, we have no idea if they went back up the mountain or called it quits and went
home.
7.
Skeleton Lake There is a secret lake high up in the Himalayan
Mountains with a dark and sordid history.
It's called Roopkund Lake, located 16,500 feet(5029m) above sea level.
It's at the bottom of the Trisul Mountain, one of the highest in all of India.
Back in 1942, a patrolling group of British forest rangers uncovered the lake – along
with hundreds of skeletons scattered around its shores.
It's hard to say exactly how many skeletons have been left here.
The lake expands and shrinks each year because of the frigid temperatures.
The skeletons are only visible in the summer when the snow melts.
Years ago, the rangers found skeletons with flesh still attached to their bones, looking
like they hadn't been dead for very long.
Since then, somewhere around 800 dead bodies have been found scattered around the lake.
But ever since the initial discovery, scientists have been struggling to figure out how they
got there.
Scientists still don't have the answers to this day.
But they do have a lot of theories.
One theory says that about 870 years ago, a large group of people were moving through
the area when they got trapped in a blizzard.
All of them starved and died, slowly decaying along the edges of the lake.
Another theory says that the remains are from Indian soldiers who tried to invade Tibet
back in 1841 but failed, and then died trying to find their way back home over the Himalayas.
Since many of the skeletons have holes in their head some researchers argue that people
were caught in a hailstorm that was so bad it literally pummeled them to death!
Another theory based on carbon dating of the remains, which found that the bodies were
left at the lake over a period of 1000 years, which means there was no single event at all
but something that happened over the course of many years.
Perhaps the lake was actually used as some kind of ritual area where people were taken
and sacrificed for unknown reasons.
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6.
Ancient Mountain Castle High up in the mountains of Turkey, archaeologists
have found the ruins of a kingdom that’s been lost to history for almost 3000 years.
They unearthed a castle that has been directly linked to the Urartu civilization.
The Urartu once dominated much of modern Armenia, parts of Turkey, and parts of Iran, and they
actually warred with the Kingdom of Assyria back in the first millennium BC.
The castle itself had gone undetected throughout all of modern history.
It was only just now that it was uncovered 8200 feet(2499m) above sea level, hidden by
Turkey's remote mountain peaks.
It was students from the Van Yuzuncu Yil University who excavated its foundations, confirming
it to be 2800 years old.
But researchers say it was mostly used during the Middle Ages, 2000 years after it was first
built.
Here’s why.
The Urartu emerged as a civilization in the 13th century BC.
They were a big political force in the Middle East but lost control because of the neighboring
Assyrians.
Too much war saw them crumble, and by the 7th century BC, they had all but been eradicated.
They vanished into thin air, leaving very little behind.
This castle is one of the only buildings ever discovered that belonged to the Urartu.
And because the castle had gone unused for so long, people simply moved in during the
Middle Ages and used it as their own.
5.
Recent Bones Near a hiking trail in the Pyrenees Mountains,
very close to the border between France and Spain, a couple of hikers discovered a skeleton!
These hikers were simply exploring the mountain when they came across a skeleton so fresh
that it still had hair on its scalp!
The hikers immediately alerted the Spanish police, who launched an investigation.
Along with the human skeleton, authorities discovered a small collection of animal remains.
This brought them to the realization that the person had probably been dragged to this
remote part of the mountain by a wild animal.
They now believe the skeleton could belong to a woman named Esther Dingley, who went
missing while hiking back in November.
It was November 22 when she sent her very last text message to friends, saying that
she had driven to the Spanish side of the mountains and that she was going hiking.
But this was at the beginning of France going into lockdown over the coronavirus, preventing
a thorough search of the area.
Authorities with both France and Spain did basic search and rescue attempts, but presumed
Dingley was already dead.
Since she has never been found, the experts are pretty certain that the human skeleton
belongs to her.
But as for how she died, that's still something of a mystery.
She may have perished, lost and hungry and confused, then had her corpse ravaged by wild
animals!
4.
The Tuxtla Statuette It was 1902 when an indigenous man was plowing
his field in the Tuxtla Mountains of Mexico, in the state of Veracruz.
While doing this, he came across a mysterious green stone about the size of a mango.
It turned out to be a piece of jadeite, an artifact over 1800 years old.
A picture of a human figure with bird wings and a beak for a mouth was carved into it.
It is also inscribed with a bizarre set of hieroglyphics.
By 1903, the Tuxtla Statuette had made it to the Smithsonian Institute in the United
States.
At first, researchers thought they were dealing with a relic from the Mayan civilization.
But when the hieroglyphics were compared to the Mayan characters available at the time,
there was no likeness between them.
By 1907, it was clear nobody had any idea who crafted this mysterious statue.
It wasn't until 1960 that scholars put forth the idea that it was made by the Olmec civilization,
a group of people who came 1000 years before the Maya.
Finally, in 1993, a pair of linguistics experts named John Justeson and Terrence Kaufman deciphered
the hieroglyphics written on the stone.
The translation revealed that the statue came from the year 162, at the height of the Olmec
society.
But to this very day, other scientists dispute the claim, saying that because almost no other
examples of the Olmec script exist, these people wouldn't have had any real way to decipher
the hieroglyphics.
It's still up in the air whether this mysterious mountain artifact was made by the Olmec – and
what its exact purpose was almost 2000 years ago.
3.
Ancient Human Dwellings In Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains, over 11,000
feet(3352.8m) above sea level, archaeologists have uncovered ancient human dwellings.
The team of experts found artifacts like stone tools and burned animal bones, as well as
other evidence indicating that human beings were living way up in these remote mountains
47,000 years ago.
According to the Smithsonian, this represents the earliest evidence of prehistoric human
beings living at this high of an altitude.
One of the reasons this is so amazing is that ever since archaeology has been around, people
have mostly concentrated on areas nearer to sea level.
Archaeologists never really considered that ancient people were building their houses
way up in the mountains.
Now we know better.
In the Bale Mountains, researchers found at least 300 rock shelters once occupied by primitive
humans.
Even more shocking is the fact that these rock shelters were inhabited from between
47,000 and 31,000 years ago.
It's honestly hard to comprehend that amount of time.
Humans were sheltering in crude rock houses for a full 16,000 years!
To put that in perspective, smartphones have only been popular for about 15 years.
2.
Microscopic Fossils A new study led by geologist Reed Scherer
from Northern Illinois University has found that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse
in the near future because of climate change, causing massive flooding across the globe.
He made this discovery thanks to microscopic ocean fossils.
But these fossils weren't found in the ocean, they were actually found high up in the mountains.
A colossal deposit of microscopic fossils in the Transantarctic Mountains has shown
that when the ice sheet retreated 300 miles(482km) about 4.5 million years ago, during the Pliocene
era, marine fossils were pushed way up the mountains, where archaeologists started finding
them in the 1980s.
Think of it like this.
Marine creatures died and were fossilized at the bottom of what was once an ocean.
But when the Antarctic ice retreated, the sea level rose at least 75 feet(22.8m).
Some of these fossils were then spat onto the bases of the mountains.
When the world got cold again, the fossils solidified in the ice.
As the ice grew and grew, the fossils were pushed even higher up the mountain, to where
they were found recently.
For the first time in 4.5 million years, the temperature of the Earth is warming up to
Pliocene levels, and Reed Scherer says we could see flooding on the same scale as back
then.
In just a century or two, the sea could once again rise 75 feet(22.8m), similar to the
event that pushed these marine fossils way up in the mountains in the first place.
This means that millions of years from today, future archaeologists could find fossils of
current marine creatures like whales and sharks high up in the mountains.
1.
Hidden Temple- At the top of Mount Padang in West Java, there
is a mysterious pyramid-like structure that could actually be an ancient temple previously
hidden underneath the ground for thousands of years.
The structure itself was discovered in the early 19th century, but scientists didn't
realize that there was more to it than what they saw on the surface.
At the top of the mountain, there are a few broken foundations and pieces of crumbling
stone, what archaeologists originally thought was just a ruined building.
But recently, archaeologists took a closer look, realizing that the real structure is
actually buried underneath the ground.
Archaeologists noticed that the hill wasn’t shaped right – and that was when they realized
they were probably standing on a buried pyramid.
After doing tomographic X-rays of the area, they found several layers of something man-made
beneath the mountain, spanning an area of at least 15 hectares.
The top layer was likely a temple built around 3500 years ago.
But beneath, it's believed that whatever was built dates back at least 8000 years ago.
And it’s shaped just like a pyramid!
Unfortunately, scans show that the potential pyramid is about 49 feet(14.9m) beneath the
surface.
It would take a significant amount of money and resources to dig down and find the bones
of the lost structure, something not currently possible.
So, for the next while, we can’t do anything except guess as to who constructed a pyramid
that long ago and how it got buried under 50 feet(15.2m) of earth.
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