We think that we are familiar with something, but it’s no surprise that there are a lot more things in the world that we don’t know about. What a fascinating and strange place we live in, where there is so much mystery going on that can’t be explained by science.
Over the years, people have discovered a number of mysteries in the world. Whether it’s a living creature that looks seems like an alien, or a historical artifact found under the sea, there’s always something going on out there.
Maybe at some point in your life, you’ll be the one who makes an unusual discovery yet to be revealed. If you are a type of person who enjoys finding something that is SO out of the ordinary that’s even surreal, you might enjoy these list of the weirdest discoveries in the world!
A sunken World War I submarine was found intact with 23 bodies still inside.
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The type UB-II submarine seems to be in decent shape.
In good condition according to experts, the UB-II is currently lying about 100 feet below the surface of the water, just slightly off the coast in the North Sea. Researchers have been reluctant to share the exact location due to fears of possible looting and destruction.
It’s no small discovery.
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It’s reported that the vessel is about 88 feet long, 20 feet wide, and lying on the sea bottom at roughly a 45-degree angle.
23 bodies
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From the looks of it, all 23 crew members from this particular UB-II appear to be intact and preserved inside the vessel. Due to the massive passage of time and exposure to the elements, this is an exciting discovery for researchers.
A huge humpback whale was found dead in the Amazon jungle and nobody knows how it got there.
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Found on the island of Marajo, off the Araruna Beach, experts experienced difficulty reaching the carcass at first due to its location amongst the trees and overgrowth.
Brazilian wildlife experts who rushed to the scene were left confused as to why a humpback whale was so far inland and what exactly it was doing on the north coast of Brazil at this time of year.
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Renata Emin from the Bicho D’agua Institute said: “We’re still not sure how it landed here.”
Divers discovered what’s at the bottom of the mysterious “Great Blue Hole” in Belize.
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Located off the coast of Belize, the Great Blue Hole is a giant marine sinkhole, measuring almost 1,000 feet wide, making it the second largest marine sinkhole in the world.
Entrepreneur, Richard Branson, decided to finally explore the hole.
Branson journeyed into the hole with Fabien Cousteau and Erika Bergman, both explorers in their own right.
After ten minutes the gang saw a “breathtakingly beautiful” stalactite. In his blog on the experience, Branson described every wonderful sight in detail.
‘The Blue Hole is made of a complex system of caves that once formed on dry land. It is proof of how oceans can rise quickly and catastrophically,” he wrote.
A mysterious island appeared in the Pacific, baffling scientists.
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The island was formed in 2015.You will find the mysterious island off the coast of Tonga, where it is actually nestled between two other un-eroding islands.
The island rests between the islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha’apai, two older islands.
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The island has only recently been explored.
A group of NASA scientists took to the island to study it.
Why is NASA so interested in a small Pacific island? Aren’t they all about outer-space?
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NASA scientists believe that the island can actually help them to investigate how volcanic landscapes interacted with water on the surface of ancient Mars.
Speaking of NASA, Astronauts have discovered insane things over the years.
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Engineer Leland Melvin claimed that, at one point, he saw an ”alien-like, organic object” while orbiting Earth.
Now, NASA has said this was just ice—but Melvin wrote that whatever he saw was “translucent, curved, organic looking.” How interesting!
Pluto has a cousin.
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As far as we were all concerned, Pluto was the final planet in our solar system—and then Eris was discovered. Eris is 27% bigger than Pluto, and then both were de-classified as dwarf planets.
So, we’re still left with the eight main planets, but there’s another dwarf planet besides Pluto!
It was discovered that space travel alters your very DNA.
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Yes, you read that right! NASA discovered this by running tests on identical twins: astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year in space aboard the International Space Station, while his twin, Mark, remained on Earth. After two years of study, NASA confirmed that 7% of Scott’s genes were different.
It was discovered that Jupiter has company.
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Scientists have just recently found 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter. All in all, the gas giant has at least 79 moons—including the four large Galilean moons discovered by astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610.
A giant tortoise species thought to be extinct was found alive in the Galapagos.
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The Fernandina tortoise (or chelonoidis phantasticus) has not been sighted for over a hundred years.
These tortoises are indigenous to the island of Fernandina.
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Fernandina is the youngest of the Galapagos islands and is therefore still the most volcanically active. The frequent eruptions led most to believe the tortoise could not have survived there.
The Goliath Birdeater is the largest tarantula in the world.
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Its body length can reach over 11cm (4.5 inches). To put that into perspective, that’s roughly the width of a toilet bowl.
They can also regenerate.
Okay, not entirely like Dr. Who, but they can grow back missing limbs.
They’ve got projectile hairs.
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Goliath Spiders, like many Tarantulas, shoot barbed hairs from their abdomen as a defense mechanism.
The Goliath Bird Eating Spider eats… well… birds. But also large insects and even small rodents.
They live in burrows.
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And use vibration sensors on their feet to sense the proximity of prey.
Don’t worry – they won’t kill you.
Construction workers found centuries-old coffins in a Philadelphia building.
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Back in 2017, construction crews working in Philadelphia on an old apartment building unearthed a bunch of centuries-old coffins.
Pretty horrifying, right?
There were also fully intact human remains.
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Uh, no thanks.
The building is near the historic Betsy Ross House and was a “decommissioned burial ground for the First Baptist Church,” back in 1707.
The workers found bones at the construction site.
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In 2017, 60 individuals were found, reported the Detroit News.
It sounds like something right out of a horror movie!
Scientists discovered a two-headed shark.
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Marine biologists in Spain have come across a real, living two-headed shark. It’s not the only one we’ve come across either.
It’s an egg-laying shark as opposed to a birthing shark…
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Yep, that’s what a two-headed shark embryo looks like.
Scientists found this shark embryo with two heads in the Western Mediterranean. It’s an Atlantic sawtail catshark.
Then there’s this live specimen, which was found in the same area by Spanish marine biologists.
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They reside about 1,000-2,000 feet below the surface of the water, so chances are they’re not getting near swimmers for a nibble, but still…pretty freaky.
An ancient computer was found in the ocean.
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Before our beloved laptops, there was the Antikythera mechanism. It was discovered sometime between 1900 and 1901 off of a Greek island. It’s thought to be the earliest draft of a computer.
You can see this historical bad boy at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Apollo moon rocket engines were found in the sea.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos privately funded a project to retrieve the Apollo rockets from the ’60s and ’70s that were believed to be lost forever. In 2012 they were found, and are on display at Seattle’s The Museum of Flight.
What is possibly the world’s oldest city was found in the depths of the ocean.
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In 2001, the remains of a “lost city” in the Gulf of Cambay off the coast of India were discovered.
Human remains, artwork and wooden furniture were all found in the ocean. Researches guess the artifacts are roughly 9,500 years old.
Off the coast of New Jersey, a “locomotive graveyard” was found.
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A “locomotive graveyard” was found in 1985 off the coast of New Jersey. It dates back to the 1850s, but nobody knows why the locomotives were dumped in the ocean.
Lake Michigan has its own Stonehenge.
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In 2007, a bunch of stones arranged in a circle was found in Lake Michigan, roughly 40 feet below the surface.
Super creepy!
A self-funded treasure hunter team found what they believe is an alien saucer.
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Ocean X discovered the “Baltic Sea anomaly” in 2011. The anomaly is a weird rock structure that looks a bit like an alien saucer. It was found on the floor of the Baltic Sea.
What could it be?
The ancient city of Alexandria is pretty much perfectly preserved under water.
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Egypt’s last Pharaoh Cleopatra ruled the ancient city of Alexandria. Many believe that the city was enveloped in the ocean due to natural disasters.
It was rediscovered in 1998 after nearly 1,600 years.
Seamonsters have been discovered.
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You may be a skeptic, but deep-diving technology has allowed researchers to go further into the ocean than ever before. They’ve discovered many strange sea creatures, like the “blobfish.”
It was reported that the grenade was likely buried on a French WWI battlefield, which then became a potato farm.
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The grenade was detonated outside of the factory.
Talk about a scare!
That hasn’t been the only grenade discovered by unsuspecting folks.
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A Florida couple found a World War II hand grenade, then decided to go to Taco Bell with it. Because that’s what you do, right?
The couple found the grenade during a fishing trip.
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After finding the grenade, the couple put it in the trunk of their car and drove to Taco Bell.
Then they decided to call the police.