The world and mother nature is truly amazing but at times it can also be terrifying there are many
phenomena i'm sure you've never seen before they sound like they could be straight out of movies
but they're real from balls of lightning forming in the sky to a mysterious mating ritual which
covers beaches in fish lightning ball this is a bizarre phenomenon you probably have never seen
ball lightning is an unexplained phenomena which is a luminescent spherical object appearing in the
sky these normally come at the same time as normal lightning during thunderstorms these were first
seen during the 19th century they're super rare and happen in a split second that's why it took
until 2014 for a good one to be caught on camera scientists aren't sure why ball lightning occurs
normal lightning occurs when ice and water particles separate a negative charge then falls
to earth but then positive electricity rises from the ground the two joined together and hit the
ground making a lightning strike that all makes sense but how does a lightning ball form these
lightning balls would be incredibly dangerous their temperature would be around 28 000 degrees
celsius that's six times hotter than the surface of the sun thankfully this unexplained phenomenon
is incredibly rare but they have been known to cause fires in some areas if you see one the best
case scenario is to go inside and seek shelter door to hell imagine looking into hell from earth
well you can almost do this if you go to duese turkmenistan this fiery pit is a natural gas field
the gas field has collapsed into a perfectly circular cavern the gas is poisonous and it was
discovered by soviet engineers back in the 1970s these scientists said that this gas crater would
be dangerous to people living nearby they wanted to burn off the gases very quickly so they set
this crater aligned but they didn't realize this is one of the biggest reserves of gases in the
world they thought it would take a few weeks for these gases to burn away but no so far
it's taken half a century and it's still burning strong that's right this fire's been going for 50
years and may go for 50 more the pit is 66 feet deep and the diameter of this hole is 230 feet
inside is boiling and bubbling mud most of the gases have now burned out so that's why tourists
can now visit the gateway to hell waterspout tornadoes happen when warm and cold air collide
these normally happen in big wide open areas like farms but what if one of these tornadoes happened
in the sea well then you would get what's known as a water spout this is a tornado which has come out
of the sea the vortex is actually a funnel-shaped cloud most of the time water spouts don't suck up
water instead they simply rotate columns of air over water that's why thankfully they normally
evaporate before getting into any cities however these can cause havoc to ships and swimmers
if you are swimming or surfing and got caught in one of these you could be pushed under the water
also if you were in a ship or boat then you could be capsized the main places where these happen in
the usa are in florida and also the great lakes grunion beaching just imagine if you took a trip
to the beach one day but instead of sand there was fish it sounds crazy but that's what many beach
goers experience all the way from california down to mexico this happens all the way down
the coastline from santa barbara california and stretches all the way to punta abrahos in mexico
locals call this the grand grunion run this is where grunion fish beach themselves to
mate and lay eggs these fish are only found in the southern pacific coastline these small
silvery fish totally cover the sand they then lay translucent eggs just one spoon can lay around 3
600 eggs some people even run out to the beaches and catch these grunion volcano lightning
you may think there's no natural phenomena scarier than a volcano but what about lightning combined
with a volcano the images of lightning volcanoes are totally terrifying it looks like something
from a different planet or a scary movie but why exactly does this happen well when a volcano
erupts hot ash particles rise into the air and rub against each other the heat and friction
then create a differential in electric charge this then sparks a strike and makes volcano lightning
scarily this can even form glass which flies around the air scientists have passed away
trying to study this it's safe to say this rare phenomena is one of the most amazing things
mother nature produces but if you ever see this in real life i'd advise you not to go too close
the lightning sparks can fly off at incredible speeds and incredible distances too this means
even if you're standing far away you could still be zapped and electrocuted devil's kettle falls
this may look like any old waterfall if you were just passing by but devil's kettle falls is
actually one of the world's biggest mysteries you can find this forked waterfall in minnesota usa
the waterfall splits off into two streams of water one flows into a pool at the bottom like normal
but the other goes into a mysterious hole the mysterious thing about the hole is it appears
to lead to nowhere no one is sure where this water flows out to it seems like this hole is bottomless
no one sure where the water ever ends up of course if this hole went to nowhere then
eventually the water would rise up but it never does it just keeps flowing into this hole and
no one knows where it goes some believe that it crosses the border all the way into canada
scientists have tried to pour dye into the water they then studied many lakes and rivers around the
usa to see if any dyed water came out but none ever did it seems like this hole simply eats up
all the water and it just goes to nowhere one researcher even lowered himself 26 feet into
the hole but saw no end to it it seems like we may never find out where devil's kettle falls ends up
maybe it really is a bottomless pit submarine volcano just imagine you're swimming one day when
all of a sudden you feel a hot sensation you then realize but it's too late you've swam on top of
a submarine volcano that's right volcanoes aren't just in gigantic craters in mountains you can also
find these underwater when a submarine volcano explodes there can be magna spewing from the
surface these submarine volcanoes are normally found near areas where tectonic plates form
although these are rare they produce more magma than a regular volcano in fact they're responsible
for 75 percent of the world's magma output right now there's 119 submarine volcanoes on record
but some say there could be up to a million that we haven't yet explored sandstorm there is almost
nothing more epic and terrifying looking than a sandstorm the most affected countries by
sandstorms are iran and kuwait but these can also be found in australia too the height of these can
be up to a mile they can also get very hot making them dangerous sometimes these sandstorms can
be around 50 degrees celsius and sometimes people even pass away from these sandstorms
this is normally because of car incidents when people can't see due to the sand by gong pipes
you can find this unusual phenomena in hike sea china they were discovered by u.s
researchers in the 1990s eight percent of these are made from mysterious unknown materials
and no unsure why they were made or how this has led to some speculation about aliens the pipes
were here way before human life in the area no one is exactly sure what these pipes are or what they
were made for some scientists believe they could be fossils of some kind but for now we simply
don't know ice disks ice disks can sometimes be found on lakes and rivers when it's super cold
these occur when a water current rotates in a circular motion this causes blocks of ice to
spin clockwise this creates a whirling vortex and separates the size in a circular shape
in my view it kind of looks like the earth in my view it kind of looks like the earth from above
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