Wonders of Nature: Earth’s Strangest Anomalies

Get ready to discover wonders that might change how you see the natural world. Let your curiosity lead the way as we explore some of Earth’s strangest and most surprising anomalies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Hole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woWTX7vYImM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_rain

https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/these-10-natural-anomalies-will-have-you-believing-in-magic

https://www.visitlakegeorge.com/listing/lake-george-mystery-spot/2105/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/02/28/hydrologists-solve-minnesota-devils-kettle-falls-mystery

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20160725-where-nature-plays-magic-tricks

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-30/min-min-lights-seen-in-outback/10317058

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:15

Welcome to the Cashley Show. We are Kevin and Ashley. Hello. We started this podcast after recent tragedies to take a break from negativity and discover the good things happening all around us. Today we are talking about wonders of nature, Earth's strangest anomalies. Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

I guess they're not scary. They're just strange.

SPEAKER_02 0:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

Okay. But that was a spooky noise, right?

SPEAKER_02 0:37

It was a spooky noise. Kevin loves nature.

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And spooky stuff.

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I'm not doing spooky things. Alright. Have you ever wondered what secrets our planet still hides? From lakes bubbling with trapped gas to deserts marked by mysterious circles. Earth is full of natural phenomena that spark our imagination and leave us searching for answers. In this collection, you'll visit some of the world's strangest and most awe-inspiring places where science and spectacle come together and the extraordinary is always close by. So when we're done, I want to know which one of these you already knew about. And I know there's one that you for sure you do, but that I already know about. Yeah.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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First up we have Blood Falls in Antarctica.

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Blood Falls in Antarctica. Yeah, it has to do with like algae or something, right?

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So the coming off the iceberg. Picture scarlet red water flowing slowly flowing over the snowy white Taylor Glacier and Lake Bonnie. The amazing site called Blood Falls gets its striking color from a hidden, very salty lake trapped under the glacier for almost two million years, cut off from light, oxygen, and warmth. This ancient brine seeps through a crack in the ice and turns rusty as it meets the air, creating a dramatic waterfall. You can only reach Blood Falls by helicopter or on a rare cruise through Ross Sea, making it one of the most remote and unusual sites on Earth.

SPEAKER_00 2:15

That would be super weird to see. Especially like 200 years ago or so. Yeah. Like seeing something like that, you're like, oh, this is end of times. This is it. This is the last day.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

Yeah. It's pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_00 2:26

The earth is bleeding.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

It's so mad at us. Look at the blue up in this iceberg. It's like white and then kind of brownish. Yeah. And then bright blue. Alright. Next up we have sailing stones.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

So wait, why is it red? Because of brine? So then does it like oxidize the iron or something? Like how does it turn red?

SPEAKER_02 2:46

I don't remember. Highly salty, iron-rich, subterranean pool of water from beneath Taylor Glacier. When the clear iron-rich brine comes in contact with oxygen, it and then oxidizes.

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Right. Cool.

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Alright. Sailing stones.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

Oh yeah. Yeah.

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And you see these ones.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

I'd seen Blood Falls too.

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Yeah.

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But I guess I didn't know that it was oxidized. It was Rust. They should call it Rust Falls.

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But it's not as cool as blood.

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But it's informative in the name.

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You don't even have to ask questions, you just get it. For years, scientists were puzzled by the strange trails left by heavy stones across the dry racetrack playa in California's Death Valley. How could such big rocks move by themselves? The answer is a rare natural event. Do you know what it is?

SPEAKER_00 3:42

So like it freezes and then they're up on like ice or something, so then they scoot a little bit because there's no friction or less friction because of the ice?

SPEAKER_02 3:49

Yep. In winter, the playa floods and the stones get covered in sheets of ice. When the sun warms the desert, the ice breaks up and with a little help from the wind, the stones glide across the muddy ground, leaving winding paths behind them. Some stones move in straight lines while others curve or even turn back slowly. The hidden forces at work. Sorry, showing the hidden forces at work. You can also see this mystery at Little Bonnie Clare Playa in Nevada, but it is most famous in Death Valley.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

Yeah, that'd be pretty cool to like actually see. Like there's a stone in the middle of the flat desert and just this trail for like as far as you can see.

SPEAKER_02 4:31

Mm-hmm. It is pretty cool looking.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Yeah.

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Alright, next is Kawa Lake in Indonesia. Sorry, I don't know. Look at that lake.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

Yeah, it's have a lot of I think the water in like Lake Havasu is a lot like this. Like I don't remember why, but very like green, like pale green. Anyways, keep going.

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Alright. Many travelers visit Indonesian Island of Java to see the impressive Kawa volcano. But the real surprise is at the top. A lake so bright turquoise that it looks unreal against the volcanic landscape. Bright stones and clouds of white steam surround the lake, making the scene both enchanting and unforgettable.

SPEAKER_00 5:13

Is that what that is coming up? I thought that was just a cloud. Was that steam?

SPEAKER_02 5:16

Yeah, so sulfur is what creates the amazing scene. Deep inside the volcano, a magma chamber releases sulfuric gas, gases that rise up and mix with the lake, filling it with dissolved metals and turning the water a bright electric blue with a pH of just 0.5. This is the world's largest highly acidic lake. When the gases settle, the color they color their rocks yellow. At night the sulf sulfuric vapors catch fire when they touch the air, making blue flames that move along the slopes. Adventurous hikers can take a three-hour trek to see this beautiful and dangerous site up close.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Why do they only start on fire at night? Seems like wouldn't they just be on fire like all the time? What about nighttime lights them on fire? And you said sulfur? The sulfur gas burn? I have I have questions.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

I know. Give me water.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

So you can't go in that water, right?5 pH? Like that would just melt your skin and bones, right?

SPEAKER_02 6:17

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Ashley, you're like three questions back still.

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I can only type so fast.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

So definitely not the same reason as like Lake Havasu. I want to say like the trail, the like river that I think flows into Lake Havasu. I think is it looks similar to that, but definitely not be not the same reason because people hike in the river, like it's part of the the experience, the journey. There's like pools and waterfalls and things to jump off of and stuff. People are like playing in the river like the whole the whole trail.

SPEAKER_02 6:46

So the striking blue lava is actually combustion of liquid sulfur, not sulfuric acid. It burns continuously, but the blue electric blue flames are only visible at night because the daylight and the thick white smoke wash out the faint glow during the day.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

That makes sense. Same reason stars are gone at during the day? Stupid sun.

SPEAKER_02 7:08

It's not stupid. I love the sun. Alright. Next we have the hidden beach in Mexico. Did you know there was a hidden beach?

SPEAKER_00 7:17

I would imagine there's hidden beaches everywhere. Oh, I have seen this.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So this is one of the Marietta Islands off Mexico's coast is a secret paradise called somebody Playa. Playa Playa del Amor. What does Playa mean? No idea.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Like fat flat plate? Yeah.

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Beach.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

So those are like Death Valley is a beach. So is the other one in Nevada? Little beach in Nevada.

SPEAKER_02 7:47

I don't know. This beautiful sunny cove is hidden from view and can only be reached by swimming through a long water-filled tunnel. I don't think I would do that.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

Yeah, there's no way to get in from like the top.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

No, I'll tell you what it is in one second.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

Okay. But it seems like they should just have a ladder or something or stairs coming from the top.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

Yeah, I don't I don't know what's at the top or why they don't do that. Okay. Maybe because they would wash away. Nah.

SPEAKER_00 8:21

I don't think so. Based on like what the beach looks like, it looks like it doesn't ever go up that far, like halfway.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

Yeah. Okay. But this peaceful place has a dramatic past. In the early 1900s, the Mexican government tested bombs on the empty Marietta Islands, leaving a huge crater in the rock. Over time, the sea filled the crater.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

Oh, this is a hole from bombs?

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Turning the past site into a hidden oasis of sand and clear water, a beautiful spot created from destruction.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Oh, and like hopefully not nuclear bombs like the US did and like what a bikini atoll or whatever. Yeah, I guess uh hopefully just regular bombs with regular bad stuff.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

That's pretty cool. When when was it? When were they doing that?

SPEAKER_02 9:05

Early 1900s. Huh. But it's a pretty cool little thing. It'd be cool to see.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

It's pretty big.

SPEAKER_02 9:11

I would not want to swim through a tunnel though.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

Yeah, tunnel to get to it.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

100% no. Yeah. But it's cool. Alright, next is Pink Lake Hillier, Australia.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

Whoa, that is pink.

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Bright pink.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Yeah, because I would not get in that water. I probably would get in that point five pH water before I got in this water.

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If you fly over Western Australia, you'll see a surprising sight. Lakes that glow with a bubblegum pink color, surrounded by green forests and the deep blue southern ocean. The most famous is Lake Hillier, which is almost 2,000 feet long along Middle Island. It is bordered by a thin strip of sand and forest, making a colorful scene that looks almost magical.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

So is it pink because of like the same shrimp or whatever that the flamingos eat that make them pink?

SPEAKER_02 10:06

Mix of microalgae makes it pink and salt loving bacteria. Next.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

I wonder if it's kind of the same stuff, like the Utah salt flats, right? Like out there where they're harvesting different metals and stuff. Like they have all those different man-made pools, but they're all like different colors and stuff like this.

SPEAKER_02 10:24

Yeah. Alright, next is Family Circles Nambia. Says Fairy. Fairy. Fairy Circles Nambia. I knew it said fairy. I said family. Oh geez. Have you seen these ones?

SPEAKER_00 10:38

I don't think so. Fairy Circles. What? That looks fake. That looks like bad Photoshop.

SPEAKER_02 10:46

It's like kind of like cheetah spots put all over the ground, but they're orange spots.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

It reminds me of those. What's that little like dot candy on paper? Remember those?

SPEAKER_02 10:55

The button things?

SPEAKER_00 10:56

Yeah, little button candy. That's what it reminds me of. Like just as far as the eye can see, just slapped on there.

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Yeah, it's kind of weird. Across the dry grassland of the Nambia Desert, millions of bare circles up to 49 feet wide create a huge honeycomb pattern that stretches for miles. These famous fairy circles and that are a natural mystery that have sparked many theories. Some scientists think radioactive soil or plant toxins are to blame, while others believe sand termites make the rings to store water. Another idea is the desert plants compete for resources, creating the pattern. Local bushmen have more magical story. They say the circles are footprints of the gods.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

So do you have like a closer picture of what one of those looks like? Of what a fairy circle looks like? Because it just looks like to me, it looks like a mound, like a little bump from that picture. But it's not like is it an indentation?

SPEAKER_02 11:57

I thought they were indented, but maybe not.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

Yeah, they are there.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

And it seemed like this was really big too. Hold on.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

Yeah, there's nothing there for scale.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

Yeah, like it has so stretches across an eleven hundred mile belt of Nambia Desert. That's pretty big.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

It's a long ways.

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Mm-hmm. The next one is Bolton Strid.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Okay, dumb name.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

Well, this is an English river.

SPEAKER_00 12:25

What's a strid?

SPEAKER_02 12:26

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Bolton Strid, or is that like a a full person's name or something?

SPEAKER_02 12:31

It just says the strid is famous.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

The strid. So what's a strid?

SPEAKER_02 12:35

Some English word.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

Well look up. Are you are you asking what is a strid? What does strid mean?

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It's a specialized geographical term for a very narrow, deep, dangerous gorge or passage where a river is forced through a tight channel. Well, now I learned something. Now you know what this one's about.

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What a strid is. A strid is a tight, narrow thing of water.

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So the Bolton Strid is a well known and dangerous part of the river wharf. In Yorkshire, England. It looks like a narrow, calm stream that you could easily jump across, but under the surface is a strong twisting current and deep underwater caves. This makes it one of the deadliest waterways in the world. Its harmless look hides the fact that almost everyone who falls in does not survive.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

Yeah, it looks like seriously a stream. Yeah. Like I would play in this with our children.

SPEAKER_02 13:29

Yeah, it's like a stream and then a little bit of a waterfall, and then it looks a little rougher. But yeah, it's pretty deadly.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

I want to know more about this. How many people die? Bolton Street. Like, look up like is there other pictures of it? Because that one that you showed was very misleading. That was a marketing picture for sure. To show a nice, calm little stream out in the English countryside that just murders people.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

No organization no organization keeps a record of how many people have died. I feel like my picture was terrible. Like, look at this. This is calm.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

Yeah, no, that's what I mean.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

Like your picture was Yeah, that's its whole thing, is it's deceiving.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

Yeah. And so I want to know like how deep it is, where's the 'cause yeah, there's a guy right there. And like seriously, I would expect like a hundred gallons a minute to be flowing over there. Something like not a lot. But there's like deep caverns and caves and stuff. Yeah, what were some of those other pictures that you did? Like the no up above. One more. Yeah. So what is that? Some leak, I guess. Nothing to do with what we're talking about? Just some super deep leak. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

Alright. How deep is the strident strid? An estimated depth of thirty feet.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

That's pretty deep considering that like it's something I could jump across.

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Except informal sonar readings from modern explorers and YouTubers have recorded depths reaching two hundred and thirteen feet.

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So you accidentally fall in, the water rushing over pushes you down two hundred feet in this stream.

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Yep.

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Whoa.

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Don't go near this stream.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

Yeah, the Bolton Strit is no joke.

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Alright. Next we have the Devil's Hole.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

A lot of stuff has the devil's name. Like here in Utah, there's the devil's backbone.

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Yeah, there's another devil one, I think, next. So the Devil's Hole is a mysterious water-filled limestone cave and geothermal pool hidden in Nevada's Amargosa. Amargosa?

SPEAKER_00 15:34

Nailed it. Yep.

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Desert.

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You got it.

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Inside a remote part of Death Valley National Park. This strange underwater place is home to one of the world's rarest fish. The critically endangered devil's hold pupfish.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

Which it only lives in that one spot, of course it's going to be endangered. Yeah. That's like saying the fish I have in my fish tank are endangered because they only live there.

SPEAKER_02 15:57

Well, if it all used to be flooded, then they probably lived other places, and that's the only place there.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

They can continue to live?

SPEAKER_02 16:03

Yeah. Which has lived in the isolated spot for thousands of years. I think they're like one inch, I believe.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

Oh, just tiny little things, yeah. Yeah. Will they eat the dead skin off my feet?

unknown 16:14

I I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

Yeah, I mean to ask them.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

No.

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The next one is Devil's Kettle Falls.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

Wait, I feel like you didn't give us much information on the last one.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

Well, yeah, I tell you, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

Tell me more stuff. Devil's Hole. It's a place that has a fish in it. That's all I know.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

It's a water-filled limestone cave and geothermal pool hidden in Nevada's desert.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

So how hot is the water? It's geothermal. Like is it so it's like like the hot pools? Can you go there and like swim in it? Or because of the fish, you're not allowed. I bet you can't because of the fish.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

It remains constant at 92 to 93 degrees Fahrenheit year round.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Hmm. That's okay.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Nah, due to the fragile ecosystem, public access is strictly rest is strictly restricted.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

Strictly restricted?

SPEAKER_02 17:01

That was a tough word. Strictly restricted.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

I think those words mean pretty much the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Strictly restricted. Okay, anyways. That was from the national park, so it has their website, their wording.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Yep. Okay. Next we have the devil's kettle falls.

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More devil.

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You see this one?

SPEAKER_00 17:22

I don't know. I mean, I see the picture, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

So this river breaks into two. Okay. So one comes down here, and this one goes into this hole and disappears.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

Never to be seen again. Goes into a strid and is gone forever. Yeah, it just like empty there's like two waterfalls. One goes into this nice pool, does all the waterfall stuff like you'd expect. Beautiful, awesome pine trees color. The other one just dumps into the side of the mountain and is gone.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

Yeah. All right. People put things down there to see if it will come up like over here in the waterfall. Does not.

SPEAKER_00 17:58

They don't know where it goes, huh?

SPEAKER_02 17:59

Yeah, I think I read someone did like a ping pong ball so it would flow. Never came back.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

Never found it.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Just polluted some underground waterway with their garbage they keep throwing in.

SPEAKER_02 18:11

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

There's probably some fish down there.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

Only live in that one spot and they're dying because all the garbage people are throwing in there.

SPEAKER_02 18:17

Yeah, probably. At Devil's Fall in Minnesota's Magni State Park, the river the Brewer River does something unusual. It splits into two, with one part flowing down a normal waterfall and the other vanishing into a deep rocky hole. For years, visitors have been amazed that anything thrown into the hole never comes back, leading to stories about bottomless pits, portals to another world, or hidden underground lakes.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

I'm going with hidden underground lake.

SPEAKER_02 18:48

Or just a river.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

That has fish in it without eyes. Because there's no light, they don't need eyes.

SPEAKER_02 18:53

That would be cool to find out if there was like species in there.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

Yep. And freshwater crab.

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Hidden in the mountain.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

Just delicious crab there in the mountain.

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Alright, the next one is the spot in the Alberta Legislature Building.

SPEAKER_00 19:12

That's a weird name. Not as good as the Devil's Armpit.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

This one's like an X or something. So oh no, it's not. Sorry, that's a different one. And this one, often called the Ledge. This spot on the fifth floor has a strange sound effect. If you stand on a certain brass disc, the gentle sound of the main floor's fountain. So I couldn't find a picture of the disc, so I just did a picture of the fountain. Okay. So you can see like floor one, floor two, possibly floor three. Right. Floor.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

Two more floors up.

SPEAKER_02 19:45

Yeah. The main floor's fountain suddenly seems like a heavy rainstorm right next to you. But people just a few steps away hear nothing.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

Yeah. Acoustics. I believe this.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

That's pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

I wonder if the because there's that disc there. I wonder if they knew that or figured it out or just like happened upon it. So they put that disc there as like a marker to say this is where the spot is. And like it just happened.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

Yeah, I think someone did it.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

Right, like they didn't mean to. It just happened to be the acoustics, the way that the building was made, and someone just marked it with that disc, I'm guessing. Because I didn't know anything about this.

SPEAKER_02 20:21

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

Okay, that's what we'll go with.

SPEAKER_02 20:24

Alright.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

That's what Kevin says? Prove me wrong.

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Next one is the Min Min Lights.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

Min Min?

SPEAKER_02 20:32

Min Min.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

So is this over in Asia somewhere? Min Min?

SPEAKER_02 20:35

Australia. So I did this one because there's a sign that says for the next uh 120 kilometers, you are in land of the Min Minights. This unsolved modern mystery is a light that at times follows travelers for long distances. It has been approached but never identified. I can't read the bottom of that. Alright. The Min Min lights grow glow in Australia out back at night, creating an eerie effect. These mysterious orbs float, move quickly, and sometimes seem to follow people. Fascinating and unsettling observers for centuries. Indigenous stories describe them as ancestral spirits or guardians, and European settlers first wrote about them in 1918. Scientists think they may be caused by atmospheric mirages, but the lights changing blue, yellow, and white color keep the legend alive in the desert.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

Yeah, how how do we not know what this is? How do we in the twenty first century not know what these lights that travel around Australia are?

unknown 21:41

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Someone should get on this.

SPEAKER_02 21:43

How is this not because they're UFOs and no one wants to do anything with that?

unknown 21:49

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

How can this be? I need to know more information. Alright, mid-min lights. I'll watch a YouTube video on this.

SPEAKER_02 21:54

You watch them.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

I will. Not because you said to, because I want to.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Okay, next is Ball Lightning. Lightning.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

This looks like mid-min lights.

SPEAKER_02 22:03

Maybe they're both the same thing. So ball lightning is a rare and mysterious natural event that happens during thunderstorms. It happens as glowing orbs in colors from deep red to bright blue or white. People have seen them hover for seconds or minutes, sometimes making a faint hissing sound or smelling like ozone. I don't know what ozone smells like, do you?

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Yeah, you do like when it rains.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

Oh, okay. I guess I do know what that smells like.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

You do, you just don't know the name of it.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

Yeah, no. Before disappearing quietly or with a sudden bang. These glowing.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

Although that's very different.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

These anywhere in between too?

SPEAKER_00 22:43

So if it makes any noise or no noise, that's also Maybe.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

I've never seen them or experienced this. Yeah, no, me either. We'll see.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

I've never heard of this. Ball lightning.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

Yeah. These glowing balls can be as small as a marble or as big as a beach ball. They can even move indoors or pass through glass.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

Okay. Okay. We've gone into the twilight zone. This is made up now.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

Even after centuries of sightings, ball lightning is still a mystery to scientists because they can't just be there when it happens.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Yeah, because it's all just tall tale stories. It's not real. This ball lightning that didn't or did make a sound also passed through or did not pass through the ball.

SPEAKER_02 23:23

This is completely made up.

SPEAKER_00 23:25

I believe zero of this.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

I do know.

SPEAKER_02 23:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

And it's made up. Same people making crop circles make ball lightning.

unknown 23:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:35

Next one is Lake George Mystery Spot. This one is the X. At Lake George.

SPEAKER_00 23:41

Where is Lake George? Because that's a pretty generic name. Lake George. Guessing the UK. George seems like a very English name.

SPEAKER_02 23:49

New York.

SPEAKER_00 23:50

Oh, dang it.

SPEAKER_02 23:51

Well I was wrong.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Well, York. York is from England. New York is just the new version of that city, which is England. Doesn't count. So that's the New England area.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

Nope. Doesn't count.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

So Which also I just realized the New England Patriots, that's very anti what's that word? Like oxymoron. New England and Patriots. You can't be a US Patriot if you're New England. Like anyways, moving on.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

At Lake George, there is a small plaza with this strange sound effect. If you stand on the X behind the visitor center in Mayor Blaze Park and speak toward the lake, your voice echoes back loudly to you. But people standing just a few feet away hear nothing. If you step off the spot, the echo suddenly sorry, the echo disappears as suddenly as it started.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

Yes, this is just like the Alberta disc, golden disc, yeah. Acoustics to they found the right spot, like just the sweet spot.

SPEAKER_02 24:52

I just feel like that's so crazy that someone right next to you can't hear the same thing as you.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

Yeah, sound waves.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

They're interesting.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

Okay, next. Okay. Blood rain in Sri Lanka.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Blood rain in Sri Lanka.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

So sometimes the skies over Sri Lanka produce rain that turns the ground blood red. This rare and strange event is called blood rain. The most famous cape case was in 2012 and were caused by tiny spores from green algae in the air.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

Green algae made red rain?

SPEAKER_02 25:25

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

When monsoon Christmas miracle. When monsoon winds blow over blooming algae, the spores rise into the clouds and fall with the rain, coloring the land in bright red shades.

SPEAKER_00 25:41

But uh but why red? If the algae is green, why does it make things red? And if you tell me because salt, because of brine and iron, I will believe you.

SPEAKER_02 25:51

Because of a natural stress response. When certain green microalgae get swept up as they become stressed by the high altitude environment. To survive the stress, the algae produces amounts of red orange pigment called something I can't say. Sure. These pigments act as a chemical sunscreen. Satisfied one answer for Kevin today.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Yeah, yep, I believe this. This one makes sense. I understand.

SPEAKER_02 26:15

Next one is frozen methane bubbles. I think this is our last one. This one is so cool.

SPEAKER_00 26:21

Where would methane freeze? It seems like it has to be very cold.

SPEAKER_02 26:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:25

Like a oh wow.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

So beneath the frozen surfaces of thousands of lakes across Canada, Alaska, Siberia, and Scandinavia, something fascinating happens.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

Wait, can you stop? Can you look up what temperature methane freezes?

SPEAKER_02 26:43

Freezing point is negative two hundred and ninety-six point five degrees Fahrenheit.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

Okay. I have a follow-up question. How does this methane freeze in a lake in Canada? Because if the water is negative two hundred and whatever, it is frozen a long time ago. How can that be? Unless the whole lake is methane, in which case we'd be living on like a planet around or a moon around Jupiter or Saturn or something, where it rains diamonds.

SPEAKER_02 27:16

Methane gas itself remains a gas even in extreme subzero winter temperatures.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

Okay. Right, the methane's not actually freezing, but it's trapped in the frozen water. AKA ice. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 27:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

Yep. This one and the green, the Christmas algae, the Christmas rain. I believe them both.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

When autumn leaves, grass, or even small animals settle on the lake bed, bacteria break them down and release methane. This methane forms bubbles that rise and get trapped in the ice, creating dazzling stacked discs that look like frozen champagne.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

Yeah, super cool looking.

SPEAKER_02 27:55

When spring comes and the ice melts, the methane escapes with a pop and a fizz in a stunning display. If someone lights a match at just the right time, the whole scene could burst into flames.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Yep. You got a lot of flammable gas in there. It's just like the whole lake just blows up.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

Alright, that was it.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

That was a good ending. I'd like that one was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

Yeah. I say the best one for last. So do you know about some of these?

SPEAKER_00 28:24

So I've heard of the methane one.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

We haven't seen it then.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

Looking at that picture is familiar. So I think I have. Yeah. I'm pretty sure I have. Like that's that's pretty familiar. And then so the Blood Rain, never heard of. We keep going up. Blood Rain, never heard of. I don't know about like the sound, the acoustics stuff with like that lake or Alberta.

SPEAKER_02 28:49

Like the specific spots, but you knew about acousticky things.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Right, yeah, yeah. I know general sound waves and acoustics. Yeah. Ball lightning, completely made up. This is like a Pokemon thing, moving on. This one is interesting. The Min Min lights? Yeah, the Min Min lights. I will look that one up to find out more about that. Okay. Yeah, that's a bit more acoustics. I never heard of that waterfall, but I do know about like underground rivers and waterways and underground lakes and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

So that would be kind of interesting to find out more. I'm kind of surprised that no YouTuber or something like hasn't like tried to find out more about that. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Devil's hole. This is this is what the fish? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

Can't really go there, so right.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Yeah, it's a lake that's fish in it. Moving on. Yeah, the this river thing, this one's kind of crazy. The whole strid. Yeah. Was it Bolton? Michael Bolton strid. Michael Bolton. That is very interesting and intriguing. Because it's literally looks like, oh, it rained today and now we have like water in this little stream. But it's like 200 feet deep.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

Like ravine, cavern thing.

SPEAKER_01 30:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

That will just suck you in and never let you go. Yeah, that one's kind of I didn't know anything about that. That was pretty crazy. Keep going up.

SPEAKER_02 30:14

It seems like there's somewhere down in like Arizona, there's some sort of like waterfall that's one of my friends' friends' husband died down there. Something weird about I'll have to look into that for a moment. Yeah, I don't remember. Fairy circles.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

Never heard of these before.

SPEAKER_02 30:37

They're pretty weird looking though.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

Yeah, they are. Pink lake? Nope. I mean, other than, yeah, I understand bacteria and algae and different things will make different colors. But yeah, I didn't know about this specific one. Or like that beach. Pretty big too. Yeah. Yeah. I think I've seen something about like this hidden beach in Mexico. But the picture that I remember is different, is more circular and like deeper down. So there could just be multiple of them.

SPEAKER_01 31:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

Right. And the one that I saw and read about was is just different than this one specifically. Yeah. Didn't know about the pure acid pool in Indonesia. Indonesia. Yeah. It's pretty cool looking though.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

Yeah, it's very pretty. It'd be kind of cool to see the blue at night.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

Yeah. Yeah, the rocks on the desert. You knew about those.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

Yes. And Blood Falls.

SPEAKER_00 31:30

I knew about that. I'm kind of I don't know. I wonder why I thought it was algae instead of oxidized iron. Yeah. But anyways, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:39

That's right. And the last first one. Wasn't that the first one? Oh, it was the first one? Yeah. The the the methane one was actually the original first one.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

Oh. Switched it up.

SPEAKER_02 31:51

Alright. Anything else you want to say? Scroll back down.

SPEAKER_00 31:55

One thing I was thinking of is like Yosemite. There's like that falls in Yosemite. Like a certain time of year, the sun hits it, and so it's like fire falls or something like that is what they call it. Right? Because like the sun is, I think, setting and hits it like right as and like lights it up like a like a fire, like lava shooting out. That one's pretty cool. And then there's this one's not like this one's man-made. I think it's in Chicago, where like the Chicago skyline, like at a certain time of year, lines up directly with the sun. So the sun is like right in between as it's setting, is like right in between the like down the skyline, down the boulevard or main street, like just cool. Like perfect. I don't think they meant to or anything like that, right? They just built it and yeah, and like people line up and they like it's like a big party or whatever, and they take all these pictures and different stuff.

SPEAKER_02 32:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

That one's more man-made. So there's only two that come to come to my mind.

SPEAKER_02 32:52

Yeah. Those are cool. Thanks, Kim. Yeah. All right. From fiery waterfalls to mysterious lights to acid lakes and rain as red as blood, Earth's strangest anomalies show us how much we still have to learn about our planet. These natural wonders are more than just curiosities. They invite us to keep exploring, keep asking questions, and hold on to our sense of wonder. Remember, even a small act of kindness can be someone's beacon in their darkest moment. Choose kindness every day. Reach out to someone today. You have the power to change a life. Be the signal of hope this world needs to be.