Scientists Baffled by These Phenomena

We rely so much on scientific knowledge, and scientific knowledge has certainly made life a lot easier for all of us. The quest for understanding and the curiosity of the human mind is intriguing, and curious, see what I did there?

Sometimes we reach the limits of our knowledge until we make new discoveries and gain new knowledge. New knowledge and the application thereof is wisdom. But there always remains much in our world and beyond that we cannot explain. I highlight some of the strange, as yet unexplained phenomena below. I hope you find them as interesting as I do.

Sometimes our globe is stranger than fiction

If you were ever walking around Kodhini India, you may see someone who greets you as you enter a shop, and then later on that same day, you see him or her again and you receive no greeting, even if you spoke to him or her earlier.

You may help someone cross the road and then later that day he or she will act like they have never seen you before? It is a weird phenomenon, but it’s not that these people have very short memories. In fact, their memories are fully functional. It’s just that they know this place as the village of twins. You may have just interacted with the twin of the one you met previously.

Almost every family in this village has twins, cue the twilight music…

You decide Africa is your deal rather than that weird village in India with the twins, so you decide to go to Namibia. This is a country with a vast desert, the Namib desert, on the southern west coast of Africa. The red sands of the Namib desert hold a secret, the circular designs that litter the landscape. Nobody knows what they are and how they came to be. Some think it’s termites beneath the sand, other think that due to the scarcity of water these rings form as sparse tufts of grass fight for water resources.

Let’s leave Africa’s west coast and head to the USA.

There is one waterfall that takes whatever goes down it to the pits of hell, or that is the belief. Nothing that travels down this waterfall ever makes it to the bottom. It is called the ‘Devil’s Kettle’ and is in Minnesota, USA. There are two parts to this waterfall. One part flows into a river below, but the other part seems to flow into the earth’s crust. Nobody knows where this waterfall ends.

Okay, had enough of the USA, let’s head back to India. There is a strange phenomenon of a river that turns red for 3 days in June near a temple in India. The legend is that they built the temple where a goddess’s body part, consistent with the menstruation cycle, fell onto the planet. The river, the Brahmaputra river is in India, near the Kamakhya Devi Temple.

Yuck, let’s get out of there and head to the UK. We all know Stonehenge in England. However, the structure is unique and the huge stones which form the structure are a stone type that is found only in the mountains hundreds of kilometres from the structure, so the question is how these megalithic stones where transported and erected to form the structure? Nobody really knows what the purpose behind the structure was. There are, however, many theories.

Moving East from Stonehenge, where huge rocks balance, we venture into the crooked forest in Poland. Nobody knows how these tree trunks curved like that. Some say could be snow, others speculate aliens.

Weird curved trees that test gravity to a rock in Myanmar that defies gravity, legend has it that a woman cannot touch the rock or it will fall. To confound the mystery, there is a small Pagoda built on the rock and they know this as ‘Kyaiktiyo Pagoda’.

This rock is precariously perched, and looks like it will fall at any minute, however it has been there for at least 2,500 years.

Let’s head from precariously positioned rocks to musical rocks. Imagine playing the xylophone with a hammer on some rocks. Well, this is possible in Pennsylvania, where we find the ringing rocks. The rocks resonate with a sound similar to a bell. Some scientists think it is the atomic structure of the rocks that seem to comprise atoms similar to those that make up Earth’s crust.

I am always intrigued when scientists cannot explain phenomena, and it shows just how little we really know about our home, not to mention the mysteries of our oceans or the vastness of space.

Thank you for reading and I hope these intrigue you too.