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Earth Mysteries

A wide variety of unexplained phenomena on this little planet.

Unexplained Green Light

Your True Tales of Unexplained Green Light

South Louisiana Spook Light

Reader report: Robert Moorhouse relates his experience with the South Louisiana Spook Light

Sky Squid

Sky Squid - Your True Tales - March 2009

Mysterious Green Light?

Mysterious green light came in through the window.

Sookinyah

Sookinyah - Your True Tales - February 2009

UFO Over Myrtle Beach

UFO Over Myrtle Beach - Your True Tales - February 2009

Mysterious Night at Gravity Hill

Mysterious Night at Gravity Hill - Your True Tales - January 2009

Animals Sealed in Stone

Amazing, true cases of living frogs and toads found encased within solid rock.

Clouds of Suspicion

When is a cloud not a cloud? Perhaps when it behaves so strangely - even to the point of attacking people - that it becomes a truly puzzling manifestation.

Encounters with Ball Lightning

True, personal encounters with the enigmatic phenomenon known as ball lighting, in which these strange globes of energy mystify, wander, even "attack"

Hail of Stones from Nowhere

Stones and rocks rain down from clear skies on houses and people, seemingly materializing out of nowhere. What could be the cause of this bizarre phenomenon?

The Ice is Falling! The Ice is Falling!

In early 2000, mysterious falls of large chunks of ice rained down on Italy and Spain. But these are just recent instances of a phenomenon that has occurred at least for centuries.

Killer Fog

The eerie shroud of water vapor can and does kill. That’s the fog we’re familiar with. There are also more mysterious forms of fog that materialize from dimensions unknown.

The Mystery of Ball Lightning

Bizarre, personal encounters with the most puzzling of all weather phenomena. From your About.com guide.

Mysterious Tunnels

Expeditions exploring tunnels around the world return with strange tales of subterranean civilizations and advanced, ancient technology. From your About.com Guide.

Mystery Spots and Gravity Hills

Cars and balls seem to roll uphill, people appear able to stand at impossible angles - all in contradiction to the laws of gravity and physics. What's really happening at these curious locations?

Paranormal Hot Spots

There are many places around the US that seem to be focal points of high strangeness - vortexes of bizarre sightings, unexplained encounters and eerie events.

Rods: 20 Questions with José Escamilla

José Escamilla has caught on tape strange flying rods with undulating appendages. Are they living creatures? From your About.com Guide.

Secrets of Coral Castle

Did a Latvian immigrant rediscover the secrets to the building of the pyramids? His amazing "castle" may hold clues to long-lost powers. From your About.com Guide.

Spooklights: Where to Find Them

Are they ghosts, UFOs or some unexplained natural phenomenon? Perhaps you'd like to go observe one and decide for yourself.

Top 10 Earth Mysteries

From animals encased in stone to unexplained hums and lights to perplexing flying rods, here are 10 of the most baffling Earth mysteries.

The Tunguska Mystery

Ninety years ago, something exploded in an isolated area of Siberia. Was it a meteor, a comet, or something even more incredible?

Water, Water Everywhere... from Nowhere

Strange cases of water and other liquids falling from clear skies and dry ceilings

Weird Nature: Your True Tales

True stories from readers.

Weird, Weird Rain

Heads up! There's all kinds of strange stuff falling from the sky: frogs, sardines, jellyfish, alligators and maybe - just maybe - cows! Here are some documented cases of really weird precipitation.

When Nature Goes Nuts

Incredible yet true accounts of rain, clouds, lightning and storms that behave in a way that seems downright impossible!

7 Awesome Acts of Nature (That Science Can't Explain)

We may look down on all the primitive peoples who are confused by lightning and think thunder is the voice of the gods, but the truth is to this very day there are natural phenomena that our scientists still don't being to understand.

7 Incredible Natural Phenomena You've Never Seen

Photos and video of seven quirky natural phenomena, including an everlasting storm, tree-climbing goats, a rain of fish, the world's longest wave, and more.

The Alahoy Vortexes

A vortex is the result of a tremendous circulatory energy phaseout, as if you didn't know. And this site lists dozens of them all over the U.S. and Canada.

The Back Beyond: Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains

There are strange things up in those mountains - including, perhaps, a race of pygmies.

Ball Lighting Page

Everything you ever needed to know about this mysterious form of plasma can be found through this page.

The Bennington Triangle

Ten people mysteriously vanished in the haunted wilderness of Glastenbury Mountain, Vermont, famous for sightings of strange lights, ghostly figures and monsters.

The Bridgewater Triangle

The Massachusetts' paranormal "hot spot" with a history of low-flying UFOs, Bigfoot creatures, cattle mutilations, Indian curses and ghostly apparitions.

The Brown Mountain Lights

New video evidence may finally provide more clues to potentially solve the mystery.

The Campeche Lights

Weather balloons? Flares? Ball lightning? Angels? Aliens? The Internet has been ablaze with pros and cons involving the bright spots of light captured through infrared photography.

The Coral Castle Mystery

On average, the weight of a block used in the Coral Castle was greater than those used to build the Great Pyramid - 1,100 tons of rock. What was Leedskalnin's secret?

The Curse of Palmyra Island

Can an entire island be haunted or cursed? This tropical island is the site of many weird and grisly occurrences.

Entombed Animals

Stories of animals found alive locked deep within stone or wood, with no observable way they could have entered.

The Eltanin Enigma

In 1964, an Antarctic research vessel photographed a mysterious and unidentifiable object on the sea bed. This two-part investigation explains how the "Eltanin antenna" generated a soap opera from another Universe.

An Essex Mystery

Speculates on why three pubs in Essex, U.K. - all named The Compassses - are in a straight line 10 miles long. How odd. But what does it mean?

The Enigma of Coral Castle

Edward Leedskalnin erected his "castle" single-handedly, using coral rock, some of which weighed more than 30 tons! How did he do it?

Falling Stones

At a little after 11 p.m. in a garden in a French country village, several people were pelted with stones inexplicably falling from the sky. They even seemed to communicate.

Forest Rings

These have nothing to do with crop circles. Forest rings are best appreciated from a light plane. Hunters and hikers in Canada's boreal forests walk right across the rings without noticing them. But from the air, they are striking apparitions.

Fortean Falls: Ice From The Sky, and Global Warming

Weird rains of toads, fish, blood, straw, sand, etc. are well-documented. But are falls of large ice chunks a sign of global warming?

The Giants of Blythe

Nazca is famous for the figures that dot its landscape. However, few people are aware that the American Southwest is also home to a large number of figures and shapes carved into the desert floor.

Green Flashes

Examines the phenomenon of green flashes seen at sunrise and sunset, which usually lasts only a second or two. Includes photos and possible explanations.

Ground Zero - Siberia

This site explores a possible connection between the Tunguska explosion and UFOs.

The Hebron Light and Others

Investigates some mystery lights: the Hebron Light (Hebron, MD), Elsey's Light (Crisfield, MD), and Cal's Light (Andrews, MD).

The Hessdalen Phenomena

Mysterious lights have been seen flying over the Hessdalen valley (Norway) for over 100 years. This is a report of a 24 hour surveillance study that's been ongoing since 1998. (PDF)

Jerry's Run Ice Fall

On June 26, 1990 in Wood County, West Virginia, from a clear, cloudless summer sky fell a 50-pound chunk of ice.

The Lake Michigan Triangle

Is there a time anomaly on Lake Michigan? A sailor relates a bizarre tale of missing time and a group of very confused sailors on this Great Lake.

Leys

Good background information on the patterns of invisible tracks or lines thought to have a power in the ground which seem to link sacred places and natural magical sites.

Megalithic Mysteries

A photographic guide to many of the unexplained megaliths in England and Scotland.

Mexico's Zone of Silence

A strange place where radio and TV signals are gobbled up, hot pebbles fall from a clear sky, and strange lights dance in the sky.

Missing: 500,000 Tons of Copper

For 1,800 years, beginning about 3000 BC, someone mined 500,000 tons of copper in what is now Michigan. Who were they, and what happened to all all that copper?

The Missing Science of Ball Lightning

One of the main problems in understanding ball lightning, this article says, is that its properties, taken together, seem to be inconsistent with the laws of physics. Yet there it is.

Mysteries of Siberia's "Valley of Death"

Across a vast area of sparsely populated Yakutia in Siberia can be found strange metallic structures and evidence of devastating nuclear-type explosions every six or seven centuries.

Mysterious Valleys

There is no shortage of strange or haunted locations on our planet, and Argentina's Calingasta Valley is definitely among them, located near the town of Barreal in the province of San Juan.

Mystery Brown Substance

In January, 1998, a home in York, Penn. is splattered with a strange brown substance from the sky.

Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge?

About 40 miles north of Boston is the oldest megalithic enigma of North America - a site that has puzzled archaeologists for almost a century.

The Mystery Hole

Just west of Portland, Ore. is a "mystery hole" inscribed with geometric codes, an obsidian mirror, a crystal tower and more oddities. Real or hoax?

Mystery of the Oregon Vortex

Vortexes are one of many secrets of this planet. One of them is the Oregon Vortex which has many paranormal effects. Naturally the phenomenon has been debunked and declared a hoax and an illusion. However, don't believe everything they tell you!

The Mystery Spot

Located in a redwood forest near Santa Cruz, this spot seems to defy the laws of physics! Go in and look at the photos.

The Ninth Wave

What could be more terrifying at sea than a giant wave? Fortean Times reports on accounts of real monster waves.

Nuclear Tunguska

What was it that decimated an area in Siberia in 1908? This article explores the idea that it was a nuclear explosion – from a nuclear spacecraft.

Oak Island

Something is buried on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. No one knows what it is, who buried it or why. But it's in a pit more than 170 deep rigged with elaborate traps.

Oak Island Mystery Pit

More information about the pit with the unknown history. It was first discovered in 1795, and its mysteries are yet to be uncovered.

Oak Island Treasure Mystery

This blog provides the latest Oak Island money pit treasure research, news, theories, discoveries, and Canadian First Nations Heritage research Studies.

Odd Pics

Anomalies-Unlimited had put together a cool collection of weird photos. They are not all paranormal in nature, but they are all odd and interesting.

Phenomenon of the Vortex

Looks at some of the Earth's Vortexes - areas of high energy concentrations, originating from magnetic, spiritual, or sometimes unknown sources.

Probing Deeper into the Dulce Enigma

Thirty miles southwest of Dulce, New Mexico, this article claims, is an underworld city, a secret base operated by humans and reptilian aliens and their worker cast, the grays.

Project Kugelblitz

Evidence that the U.S. military planned to harness the power of ball lightning, the phenomena of mysterious plasma formations, for potential applications in novel weapons technology.

Rains of Fishes

From a 1921 issue of Natural History magazine, accounts of mysterious rains of fish through history and around the world.

Ringing Rocks

In Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania is a seven-acre, ten-feet-thick layer of stones, about 30% of which ring like bells when struck with hammers!

Rock the House

In 1903, a Dutch explorer awoke to small stones falling near his pillow onto the floor of a house on the island of Sumatra. Inexplicably, the stones seemed to materialize from the broadleaf ceiling and avoided the explorer's attempts to catch them in mid-air.

Rods

What are these strange flying things? Are they alive? Are they extraterrestrial? Whatever, they are mysterious - and there they are on film.

Singularity Trailer

Watch this very cool, short animated trailer depicting the Jackson/Ryan hypothesis of a microscopic black hole causing the Tunguska explosion of 1908.

The Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa

One of the many enigmas of Death Valley National Park is the mystery of the rocks that move across Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed, with no apparent motive force. Photos and links to commentary on the phenomenon are included.

Spooklights

Here is a very good listing of mysterious spooklights, or earth lights, found around the U.S. and Canada. Some well-known, some not-so-well-known.

Star Gate 51

Something about a vortex opening in Lake Mills, Wisconsin - first established direct connection with the group who are creating the crop circles.

St. Louis Ghost Light

These pages are dedicated to the investigation of this spooklight. It includes photos and descriptions, stories about the light, myths and facts, and more.

Super-Sargasso Surfin'

Thoughts on rains of fish and frogs, cannonballs falling from nowhere, phantom boats seen in the sky, even human bodies falling from the heavens.

Taos Hum Homepage

The "Taos Hum" is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide. Lots of info here - even .wav files.

Things That Go Bump in the Night

Brad Steiger looks at the phenomenon of mystery explosions that seemingly manifest from nowhere for no reason and startle area residents. He presents records of a rash of unknown things that went "boom" in the night in the 1950s and '60s.

Toad in the Hole

Examines the curious history – and enduring biological mystery – of living frogs and toads found entombed in rocks and stones. Photographic material from the author's collection.

Underground Bases

Here is an extensive list of underground bases and what is currently known about them, culled from research. Includes a map.

Underground Bases

This site provides a list of entrances that allegedly lead down to underground bases around the world.

Vostok: The Lake of Shadows

An investigation of the mysterious lake at the bottom of the world.

What is Hidden Underwater?

About 11,000 years ago, a huge cosmic body passed the Earth and caused severe climate changes. Over the years, a number of remarkable underwater structures have been discovered.

When Flesh and Blood Fall from the Sky

Falls of blood and even flesh have been chronicled throughout history from all over the world. These events were often seen as portents of ill luck or doom.

Where the Leylines Led

Ever since the discovery of a network of ancient alignments criss-crossing the British countryside, the history of leys has been less of an old straight track and more of a long and winding road, one that has taken detours into everything from ufology to dowsing.

World Power Spots

The Earth, this site says, is covered in a tapestry of meridians - lines that connect the energy of the planet. You can help maintain the Earth's chakra balance, they say.

Yes, the Earth is Expanding!

Geologist Dr James Maxlow presents an update of his research into our expanding Earth, refuting the popularly held theory of plate tectonics.

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