10 Mysterious Places that Actually Exist
10 Mysterious Places that Actually Exist
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Wonders like The Grand Canyon and Victoria Falls are certainly big, and anyone who sees them
will surely be impressed, but sheer size isn’t enough to truly leave a person in awe. There are
other places in this world, though, that are far stranger. Places that seem almost alien, as if they
could only exist on a planet that evolved separately from our own. These are places are so
strange that it’s hard to believe they’re part of our planet. Today, we are looking at 10 of the
most mysterious places that actually exist on earth! Number 1 will give you chills, so stay tuned
for that!
Number 10.) Shanay-Timpishka, The Boiling River
Deep in the amazon lies a river four miles long and unlike any other on earth. The Shanay-
Timpishka is so hot that any animal that steps into it gets boiled alive. When an unlucky creature
wanders in, the eyes cook first, melting in its skull. Soon the animal is in too much pain to keep
swimming to safety. Water fills its mouth and lungs, and it is cooked from the inside out. The
river gets as hot as 196 Fahrenheit and scientists aren’t completely sure why. Normally, water
that gets this hot is fed by a volcano, but this one is 700km away from the nearest one. There is a
theory, though. Scientists believe that boiling hot water from under the earth cracks through fault
lines and heats up the river, making the water a geothermal system unlike any other on the earth
but nothing has been confirmed and it is still is a mystery.
Number 9.)Movile Cave, The Cave With an Atmosphere of Sulfur
In south-eastern Romania, there is a cave that was locked away from the slightest ray of light for
5.5 million years and that has a completely different atmosphere from the earth. The cave was
discovered by workers looking to set up a powerplant. They tested the ground to see if it was a
safe place to build and cracked open a pathway that leads into one of the strangest places on
earth. If you descend through the narrow shaft and past a series of tunnels, you enter a chamber
with a lake of sulphuric water stinking of rotting eggs. The air there is toxic, filled with hydrogen
sulfide, and contaminated with 100 times the surface’s levels of carbon dioxide. The strangest
part, though, is that a whole ecosystem has survived inside it. Researchers have found 33 species
inside the cave that don’t exist anywhere outside of it. They’ve adapted to survive in a sulphuric
atmosphere, living by feeding off the foam on top of the stones. Survival comes in the strangest
forms.
Number 8.) The Petrifying Well, Where Water Turns Things to Stone
In Knaresborough in North Yorkshire is a well that seems like something ripped out of a story by
Sydney Sheldon. It’s a place where water trickles down a cliffside that looks like a skeleton’s
smiling face and where anything you place under the water will turn to stone. The process
usually takes three to five months, but you can leave anything you own under the trickling water
and, when you return, it will be stone. People have left everything from teddy bears to bicycles
there, and everyone has been transformed into a statue. For a long time, people believed that the
well was cursed by a witch. Scientists today, though, have found that the water just has unusually
high mineral content. As a result, it creates a hard-mineral shell over anything it touches, just like
how stalactites are formed in caves. But it is still a mystery how the well got there.
Number 7.) Island of Socotra
Off the coast of Yemen, there is an island that looks like an alien planet. Known as the Socotra
island, or the biblical garden of Eden, its endangered flora is unique due to the remote location’s
isolation, temperature extremes, and arid conditions. A third of its plant life can be found
nowhere else on Earth. Fortunately, 70 percent of the island has been set aside as a national park.
Some of the plants look like turnips planted upside down. The island’s bottle tree, adapted to
store water in a dry climate, has a thick trunk, and its few limbs, thick near the trunk, give rise to
clusters of much thinner branches ending in thick clumps of green leaves. There are also
mushroom-like trees there. The island has huge caves that are homes to bats, the only mammal
native to Socotra. Messages in a variety of languages have been carved into the caves’ walls.
Researchers attribute them to sailors who stayed on the island between AD 1 and 6.