Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet – I am your host
Rebecca Felgate and today we are venturing to the arctic tundra as we discuss The Top
10 Antarctic Urban Legends.
To be honest, we can talk about Antarctica like it is a far off distant place but to
be honest with you it LOOKS like Antarctica outside my window in Toronto RIGHT NOW.
Ergh!
The land of Antarctica was mostly ice 34 million years ago and has been totally lost under
the ice for 15 million years.
What is hiding under the ice has been the cause for many topics of debate and the mystery
behind many urban legends.
LETS DO IT!
10 - ANGELS This is an ANCIENT urban legend that has fueled
a modern day one!
Also, I want to say that Angels in Antarctica is a great name for a band!
SO basically in the book of Enoch, it says that angels … but not good ones, bad ones
who wanted to breed with humans, were banished and trapped . A lot of people have interpreted
this to be in Antarctica.
This old theory keeps resurfacing – In March 2017, Israeli News Live published an article
called “The Fallen Angels Living in Antarctica are still Alive.”
9 - The Ice Is Alive Some people think that Antarctica is a pure
beast on to itself – it is a weather demon… the ice is sentient and can choose when to
mess with you . Around 1000 people have died in Antarctica in the past 200 years as a result
of a disaster – but a further 20 or so explorers have also died on the ice, including Henry
Worsley, Ernest Shackleton and Andreas Beck.
Expeditionists are prepared for the worst, but sometimes the elements turn.
This has led to many suggesting the ice is alive…something that seems backed up by
the continent’s mysterious singing ice.
Listen to it……
CLIP.
8- The Spirits of Flight 901 On the 28th November 1979 Air New Zealand
Flight 901 crashed into Mount Erebus on Ross Island in Antarctica, killing 237 passengers
and 20 crew.
The flight was a tourist flight in which passengers would get a chance to see Antarctica from
the plane.
Unfortunately, the weather turned and the pilot was inexperienced and got disorientated
in the white out, crashing into a mountain.
There were no survivors.
Some of the bodies were stored at the McMurdo Statioon on Ross Island before being flown
back to New Zealand.
Not all of the bodies were found.
Many people think the McMurdo station is haunted and those who have visited have reported a
wrong feeling and a feeling of being watched.
Perhaps it is the ghostly presence of the victims of the plane crash.
Some people link the tragedy of the Air New Zealand Flight to the The No Fly Zone and
the Urban Legend of the Ice Wall!
That is coming in to number 7 Trolololol…… good old flat earthers…
has anyone seen my mine and Charlotte Dobre’s interview with Flat Earther, Mad Mike Hughes
by the way?
It is on Inform Overload and so worth a watch!
It is going to be in the forthcoming Rocket Man movie.
I wish that I had asked him about the ice wall!
BASICALLY, the Flat Earth societies believes that there is a YUGE 150 foot ice wall surrounding
the coast of Antarctica.
What is the other side of the wall, well, they don’t know because they haven’t been.
No one has, apparently.
They say that world airlines are in cahoots and have signed a pact agreeing never to fly
there.
In total fairness, the explorer James Clark Ross – the British expeditions went to Antarctica
in the mid-1800s wrote about an icy wall in his travel notes – saying : It was ... an
obstruction of such character as to leave no doubt in my mind as to our future proceedings,
for we might as well sail through the cliffs of Dover as to penetrate such a mass.
Although, of course, many historians and those who have actually read the full extent of
his journals will know that he is talking about an ice shelf – the Ross Ice Shelf
that was named after him…although this shelf is just 50 metres high and you can fly over
it.
Yes the Air New Zealand flight crashed in Antarctica, but plenty of previously schooled
flights had flown over and back before the crash…so… really this one is just a legend
for the conspiracists.
6 - John Kerry and Antarctica Energy Beam John Kerry was the 68th United States Secretary
of State under Barack Obama.
For those that aren’t aware – this job is all about foreign policy.
In 2016, John Kerry visited Antarctica and the reason for the trip has been somewhat
of a secret but good old InfoWars thinks it has something to do with aliens.
Others say that Barack Obama has a secret base there.
Alex Jones of InfoWars claimed on twitter that Kerry had split a hurricane with an energy
beam.
Weird.
Some people also draw some strange conclusions from the fact that Kerry went from Antarctica
to New Zealand, and was followed by an earthquake.
5 - The Ghosts of Blood Falls AH The ghosts of Blood Falls.
Blood falls comes up a lot when it comes to Antarctica.
It is one of the most visually dramatic places on earth.
Blood Falls is actually an area of the Taylor glacier, which is named after Australian explorer
Griffith Taylor who discovered the macabre sight in 1911.
The waterfall, which is a result of Antarctic ice melting, looks like a giant bleeding gash
in the snow…so no wonder legend has it that the falls are haunted by evils spirits.
It certainly is one of the most scary places on earth simply for its visuals.
Although it isn’t actually blood pouring from the glacier, it is an iron oxide tainted
flow of salt water.
The iron gives the water its bright red color.
Still though, seeing that in the snow from far off and upclose.... it looks like a giant
has been murder...which is probably why people get an eerie feeling in the area….
I say people… few humans that we know of have ever been here…
4 - The Nazi Tunnels:
It seems that Hitler went on a secret mission for oil in Antarctica in 1938 but many believe
that the leader of the Third Reich was constructing secret tunnels and a war bunker.
It seems that Germany claimed an area of Antarctica called New Swabia and the legends range from
understandable to wild.
Some say Hitler survived the war and escaped to South America – some say the spotted
him in Argentina.
From there they say he ventured to the very tip of pategonia and then into his Antarctic
bunker to hide away for the rest of his life.
Others say he was frozen and hidden there… which is pretty wild.
3 - Ernest Shackleton Sadly, Sir Ernst Henry Shackleton died on
his final expedition to Antarctica before he made it to the icy continent.
He had previously been during his trans Antarctic expedition of 1914 to 1917 but sadly the Irish
explorer was never to return.
Except, perhaps… in the afterlife.
It seems that his original hut which still stands in the arctic is actually haunted by
his spirit!
Or so the legend has it.
In 1958 Explorer Sir Edmund Hillary followed in the late explorers footsteps.
In his expedition journal he wrote: remember when I first went to Shackleton's hut - and
I'm not a person who really sees things very much - but I went inside the door... when
I opened the door - it's a rather sort of bare hut inside - but I distinctly saw Shackleton
walking towards me and welcoming me and then it all sort of flashed away and he was gone.
SPOOKY!
2 - The Lost Civilization Some say that underneath the thick ice of
Antarctica there is a lost civilization.
Humans as we know them came to be 200,000 years ago, but what if all the information
we have right now isn’t actually all of the information.
Africa and Antarctica separated 160 million years ago, and some say that long ago an ancient
civilization existed alongside the dinosaurs, but are lost to us.
Others say the timeline of these humans is much more recent, saying there crustal displacement
meant that large parts of Antarctica were ice free 12,000 years ago and ancient humans
could have lived there then… which if what we know from evolution is correct, is actually
far more likely.
Greek Philosopher Plato mentioned the city of Atlantis, which was inhabited by half humans
half gods… which sounds rather a lot like a description of an angel to me… hang on
a hot minute… that sounds familiar.
Is the lost city of Antlantis buried under the ice?!
1 - Aliens Aliens, Aliens, Aliens!
ALIENS ALIENS ALIENS!
It has long been speculated that there is something shifty going on down there in old
anty… my new name for Antarctica.
In September 2018 Google earth images seemed to show mysterious structures becoming visible
under the melting ice.
The structures appear in a settlement around the size of a small town…which may make
people think that perhaps this is a lost city… butttt there are tracks and what looks like
an airstrip.
This has merely added fuel to the Aliens in Anty theory!
SO that was the Top 10 Antarctica Urban Legends.
Which of these did you think was the scariest….
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