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Most Mysterious Places on Earth part three

from unsolvable code to the largest cave...

By Beulah FrancisPublished 11 months ago 5 min read
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I am going to start looking into some of the world's most enigmatic locations. You'll be astonished by what I discover, and I could even shock myself with the startling information I learn about these locations, in the series world most mysterious places on earth part three.

Mountain River Cave is roughly how Hang Son Doong is translated. The largest cave in the world, Hang Son Doong Loon in Vietnam, is so large that it could fit a modern skyscraper inside of it. The cave, which is close to the Vietnam-Laos border, was discovered in 1991 by a local man named Hokan. Locals are said to have been too afraid to explore the cave because of the sound of the rapidly flowing underground river and the enormous vertical drop, and who could blame them? The cave was generally considered to be dangerous. The biggest chamber is over three miles long and nearly a thousand feet tall, and the surveyor estimates that the cave is five times larger than Phang-nga, which was once the largest in Vietnam. The Subterranean Jungle of Hang Son Doong is formed underneath a collapsed roof of one of the caverns. After the roof collapsed, just enough light leaked into the cavern so that vegetation was able to creep in slowly from outside. branching out It's one of Nature's happiest accidents, and the entire process took years. Hong Kong Doon is a popular tourist destination, although tours can cost up to $5,000 and can start at roughly $3,000 on the low end. The largest cave in the world, known as Loon, is in Vietnam; it is so big that a modern skyscraper could fit inside of it, as well as a small jungle. The cave, which is close to the border between Vietnam and Laos, was discovered in 1991 by a local man named Hokan; however, because of the sound of the underground river flowing quickly and the enormous vertical drop, the locals were too afraid to go exploring. Until 2009, the cave was largely unexplored.

One of life's greatest and most intriguing mysteries is the Nazca Lines, which span nearly 200 square miles of a high, arid plateau. The Nazca Lines are drawings of hundreds of figures, including giant spiders, vast geometric shapes, enormous monkeys as tall as 890 feet, hummingbirds, fish, sharks, orcas, llamas, and lizards, and depending on who you ask, even astronauts, aliens, and landing zones. One significant reason there is so much interest in the geoglyphs is that they can only be fully seen from a few hundred feet in the air, which has led to one of the most intriguing archaeological mysteries these drawings have given rise to with wild theories about the prehistoric Peruvian peoples that made them. The giant glyphs were made between 200 BC and 600 AD by the technologically advanced Nazca people, who are believed to have created the lines. They were created by scraping a 10 to 30 centimeter layer of iron oxide off the dry desert floor. Due to the area's extreme dryness and consistent weather, this was all it took to create the lines. Everyone is baffled by that, and one theory that has been floated is that the Nazca built the lines to be walked on during some type of ceremonial procession since it was a sacred space where they offered prayers to different deities. They were meant to be seen by the Nazca people. What we do know is that they're incredibly entertaining to consider the good kind of conspiracy, but these lines have experienced some intrusion and damage over the years. For example, when the Pan-American 1s Highway was built through the region, it cut across the lines themselves. Another incident occurred in 2014 when Greenpeace activists ironically walked across part of the plane to hang a banner near the Hummingbird by not donning the protective shoes.

Jatinga, India, a village of about 2500 people, has seen thousands of birds fly to their deaths over a small patch of ground during the past century. While the birds have been known to occasionally plunge to their deaths, it is usually the villagers in jatinga who do the actual killing believing them to be terrible. This strange occurrence occurs after monsoon season and involves 44 species of birds in jatinga suddenly becoming disturbed in the evening hours and falling towards the lights of the city to their doom. The locals started using bamboo poles to catch the birds and then beat them to death because of the spirits that were flying around. The theory that the birds become disoriented due to a combination of high altitude, strong winds, and fog has been put forth suggests that the light attracts them as a sort of flight stabilization, and like moths to a flame they jump to their deaths. Despite the danger and the annual repetition, the birds continue to fly to their deaths in this small area. Another explanation contends that the bird's confusion is caused by fluctuations in the magnetic properties of the subsurface water brought on by the local weather. Although we may never be certain, we do know that this village enjoys berating those birds a lot. Bird deaths have fallen by 40% when wildlife and bird societies in India visited the village to inform the residents about the occurrence and try to halt the mass killing of these birds. Government officials and Assam have worked to develop guest lodgings in Jatinga in an effort to harness the phenomenon to draw tourists to the little city. It's undoubtedly an odd method to depict a location on a map.

The crypto-artwork Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been a lot of speculation over the significance of the four encrypted messages in the magnificent sculpture kryptos by American artist Jim Sanborn, which is situated on the grounds of the CIA headquarters in Virginia. Sanborn has already provided four Clues to entice cryptanalysts but so far everyone remains stumped. The first three answers are lengthy and were only deciphered by a computer scientist, CIA analyst, Canadian magician, and NSA employees. The fourth message, which is one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world, remains an absolute mystery. You need to do a little more than just the Sunday Times crosswords if you want to crack crypto. There are numerous internet communities devoted to deciphering the last message of Kryptos, and Sanborn has been supplying them with the necessary mathematical know-how. hints from 2006 and 2020. The real solution to Kryptos' final clue is known to only one person, and if he passes away before it is solved, the solution might just perish with him. The answer to the fourth clue is found not only within the solutions to the first three clues but also within already existing famous walks around Berlin.

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