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6 Locations Shrouded in Disturbing Mystery
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00:00Bermeja
00:00If you were to look at pretty much any map of the Gulf of Mexico drawn by Spanish explorers
00:06in the 16th and 17th centuries, you would find a small island lying off the north coast
00:11of the Yucatan Peninsula called Bermeja.
00:14Although the exact location of the island varied slightly depending on the map, it was
00:18a well-known fact that the island at least existed.
00:21Bermeja was first mentioned by Spanish cartographer Alonso de Santa Cruz in an official list of
00:27islands in the Gulf of Mexico, published in Madrid in 1539.
00:32Alonso de Chaves, another Spanish cartographer, once wrote that from a distance Bermeja looked
00:36blondish or reddish, which is where the island's name came from.
00:40A couple of hundred years later in the mid-1800s, French-Mexican cartographers published reports
00:45stating that the island of Bermeja had started to sink.
00:49By the late 18th century, Bermeja was no longer featured in many maps of the area, and the
00:54last time it showed up on an official map was in the 1921 edition of the Geographic
00:58Atlas of the Mexican Republic.
01:00In the late 90s, the American and Mexican government started negotiations to determine the boundaries
01:05for the exploitation rights of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
01:08If the Mexican government could find the island of Bermeja, that would expand Mexico's oil drilling
01:13rights way further into the Gulf.
01:15Around that time, the Mexican government conducted three official investigations to find the island,
01:20armed with state-of-the-art ultrasound technology and all kinds of modern tools to locate it.
01:25Mysteriously, they couldn't find any trace of the island, and according to spokespeople
01:30from the Mexican Navy, it was as if the island had never even existed.
01:34A year after the Mexican Navy failed to find Bermeja, a Mexican senator named Jose Angel Sioncielo,
01:40who was one of the most fierce advocates for the expansion of Mexico's oil drilling territory
01:44and the island's existence, was killed in a car accident on a Mexican highway when a semi-truck
01:49slammed into the right side of the car.
01:52His death quickly became the fuel for a conspiracy theory, according to which the CIA had blown
01:57up the island to further an oil-fueled American agenda.
02:00Of course, this theory is a bit of a stretch, and some of the other more logical theories
02:05that surfaced regarding the disappearance of the island are much more likely to be true.
02:08One possibility that researchers seem to favor is that the island sunk after an earthquake,
02:14or underwater landslide, which led to a further series of explorations in 2009 to see if the
02:19remains could be found at the bottom of the ocean.
02:22However, despite the even more advanced technologies that were used during that year's official
02:26investigations, the ultrasound exploration of the ocean floor revealed absolutely nothing
02:31but a sandy ocean bottom.
02:33Speculation that the island had never existed once again started circulating online and in the
02:38news, leading many people to adopt it as the truth.
02:41After the failed explorations in 2009, Julio Zamora, president of the Mexican Society of
02:46Geography, claimed that the existence of the island of Bermeja had probably been faked by
02:51early Spanish explorers to throw off other explorers and military rivals from other countries.
02:56This would make sense, as it was common practice to make slightly inaccurate maps back then for the
03:01sake of strategy.
03:03Another possible theory is that the island could have been drawn by one cartographer in the wrong
03:07location by mistake and replicated dozens of times over the centuries by other unaware cartographers.
03:14Still, some researchers think that due to the very precise descriptions of the island's
03:18physical appearance, Bermeja probably did exist but in another location.
03:23Despite the abundance of theories regarding the mysterious island's location and existence,
03:2815 years after the last exploration of the last known location of Bermeja,
03:32the truth is still a mystery and will probably remain that way forever.
03:39Overton Bridge
03:40Built in 1895 in Dumbarton, Scotland, the Overton Bridge is a Gothic-style bridge overlooking a 50-foot
03:48ravine that leads up to Overton House, a 19th-century manor in the Scottish lowlands.
03:53At first glance, Overton Bridge looks pretty much like any other bridge from the time,
03:58but there's one pretty dark detail that makes it different from any other structure in the area.
04:03For the past 80 years, hundreds of dogs have been jumping off the bridge and down to the ravine to
04:09their deaths for seemingly no apparent reason.
04:11Sometimes, the dogs survive the fall and are left with debilitating injuries.
04:16And according to some reports, there have even been instances where dogs allegedly jumped off
04:20the bridge, survived, ran up the slope, and then jumped off once again to their deaths.
04:26Depending on the source, you'll find reports stating that the amount of dogs that have jumped
04:30off the bridge is either lower than 100 or in the high 100s.
04:34But regardless of the exact number, it's a fact that a lot of dogs have died at this bridge
04:38for some mysterious reason.
04:39As you can imagine, these incidents at Overton Bridge have fueled all kinds of outlandish
04:45theories, including suggestions that the bridge is haunted.
04:48According to Celtic pagan beliefs, the bridge is located at a thin place, which is a place
04:53that lies at the supposed union between heaven and earth.
04:57Some locals have also favored more supernatural theories, with many people blaming the dog's
05:01death on the White Lady of Overton, the alleged ghost of the widow from Overton House.
05:06Another popular theory among the locals is that the dogs are being affected by negative
05:11residual energy from a tragic event that took place in 1994, in which a 32-year-old father
05:16threw his baby off the bridge, claiming that his child was the Antichrist.
05:21Following the tragic murder, the father was declared insane and locked up in a psych ward.
05:26But even with all the more outlandish theories that have gained traction in recent years, some
05:30researchers have come up with more plausible explanations for the mysterious incidents at
05:34Overton Bridge.
05:36In 2006, animal behaviorist David Sands investigated the bridge and suggested that the dogs are
05:41probably detecting the presence of wild animals below the bridge with their keen sense of smell,
05:46which makes them chase after the smell and inadvertently jumping to their deaths.
05:49This would make sense, as according to official statistics in the area, minks began breeding
05:55in large numbers in the 50s in Scotland, and most long-nosed dogs seem to favor the smell
06:00of mink over any other small animal, including squirrels.
06:04From my research, most of the dogs that have died at the bridge are long-nosed breeds.
06:08Also, because the bridge has tapered edges, from the dog's point of view, the edge looks
06:12more like a flat plain, safe for running and chasing after small animals.
06:15So, while there will probably continue to be speculation about paranormal activity at Overton
06:21Bridge for many years to come, it's much more likely that the dogs aren't intentionally
06:25taking their lives and are simply falling to their deaths on accident while chasing the
06:29odors from other animals.
06:34Abandoned Viaduct Petrobras
06:36In the 1950s, the Brazilian government began a project to build BR-101, Brazil's longest highway
06:43spanning almost 3,000 miles.
06:45In the 1960s, construction began on a segment of highway called the Viaduct Petrobras that
06:51was meant to cross the Brazilian jungle to connect Rio de Janeiro and Santos Sao Paulo.
06:5616 years after construction started, the segment of highway that crossed the jungle was due to
07:00be connected to an already existing part of the highway to finish the project.
07:04However, due to Brazil's economic crisis, plans changed at the very last minute, and instead
07:09of connecting the viaduct to the existing road, the highway was linked to a different coastal
07:13route. As a result, the Viaduct Petrobras was left abandoned in the middle of the jungle,
07:18and to this day, the Brazilian government has done nothing to remove it or reuse its parts.
07:24Standing over 130 feet tall and almost 1,000 feet long, the structure features fully built tunnels,
07:30retaining walls, and a gigantic concrete foundation, which has slowly been swallowed by the jungle as the
07:36years have gone by. To an outsider, the Viaduct Petrobras looks like it was taken out of the city and dropped in the middle of nowhere in the South
07:36American jungle for no reason, giving off an admittedly eerie atmosphere. Even though the Viaduct Petrobras seems pretty wasteful, the out-of-place structure is now a pretty popular tourist destination for curious travelers and locals wanting to catch a glimpse of the abandoned concrete giant.
07:58Kola Superdeep Borehole
08:04In the 1960s, the Soviet Union and the US were locked in a battle to develop superior space exploration technologies, often referred to as the space race.
08:14But what many people don't know is that the two countries were also competing to drill as close as possible to the center of the Earth.
08:20As is often the case, the motivation behind the drilling was mostly to find oil and valuable minerals, but from what I've found, developing machines that can get close to the
08:28center of the Earth would also help understand the causes of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions at a much deeper level.
08:34In 1958, the US government launched Project Mohal to collect a sample from Earth's mantle by drilling to the bottom of the ocean off Guadalupe Island in Mexico.
08:44Over the next eight years, they drilled over 600 feet into the seabed, but in 1966, the House of Representatives had to discontinue the project because it was getting too expensive.
08:53Four years later, in 1970, it was the Soviet Union's turn, and they drilled their hole close to the Barents Sea just outside the Norwegian border in a city known as Murmansk, Russia.
09:03At the time, the Soviets' goal was to drill as far down as possible, which researchers hoped would be a little over nine miles.
09:10Unlike the US, the Soviets were a little more successful with their attempt and managed to drill way deeper into the Earth's crust, which resulted in the creation of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, also known as the world's deepest man-made hole.
09:21With a total depth of over 40,000 feet, or around 7.5 miles, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is deeper than the Mariana Trench, and its depth surpasses the height of Mount Everest.
09:33As the project progressed, the scientists realized the temperature was much higher than expected at every point below 10,000 feet, and at around 7.5 miles below the surface, the drill reported a temperature of almost 360 Fahrenheit.
09:45This was way higher than the 212 degrees Fahrenheit the scientists had predicted at that depth.
09:50So, even though the Soviets had broken a record with the Kola Borehole, they too had to discontinue the project in 1992 due to increasing rock densities and crazy high temperatures.
10:00And in 2005, the drill was shut down and the hole was sealed for good.
10:05However, that wasn't the end of the story, and there's a slightly more disturbing reason why people remember the Kola Superdeep Borehole.
10:11In the late 80s, a strange story started circulating in several Christian Finnish newspapers, which reported that a group of Soviet scientists had drilled a hole to the center of the earth and had allegedly lowered an extremely heat-tolerant microphone into the hole.
10:25Through this, they supposedly heard a series of extremely disturbing, tormented screams coming from the bottom of the well.
10:32Throughout the 90s, the story spread to other countries, until even American newspapers were running it.
10:37As the story gained popularity, sound files with the supposed audio of the tormented screams from the center of the earth started appearing everywhere online, with allegations that the screams came from tormented souls stuck in hell.
10:49As it was later revealed, the original recording of tormented screams was made from a loop of various sound effects and the soundtrack from the 1972 movie Barren Blood.
10:58From this point forward, it was pretty much common knowledge that the screams were fake.
11:02However, it is a fact that some pretty disturbing sounds have been heard coming from the Kola Superdeep Borehole, along with other Superdeep Boreholes.
11:11In 2013, Dutch artist Lute Geven traveled to the 30,000 foot deep KTB Superdeep Borehole in Germany, where she lowered a microphone protected by a thermal shield to see if she could pick up any sounds at the bottom of the well.
11:23Interestingly, a mysterious, deep rumbling sound that scientists couldn't explain could be heard through the microphone, which in the artist's own words, some people thought sounded like hell, while others thought they could hear the planet breathe.
11:36Even though the sound is pretty cool to hear, even if a little haunting, the consensus among scientists is that the sound comes from layers and layers of rocks rearranging themselves after being moved around by the drill that made the hole.
11:48Potomsky Crater
11:52In 1949, a Russian geologist named Vadim Kulpakkov stumbled upon a mysterious crater with a diameter of over 500 feet and a height of almost 140 feet in Irkut, Siberia.
12:06At the center of the crater, he found a little hill around 40 feet tall, which kind of looked like an eagle's nest with an egg inside it.
12:12Curious to find out what was inside the crater, Kulpakkov made plans to climb the mound and take a look inside to confirm his hypothesis that the crater had been caused by a meteorite.
12:22But the locals warned him that Fire Eagle Nest, as it's become known all over the world, allegedly possessed evil powers, and whoever stepped inside it would be dead soon after.
12:31Dismissing the insistent warnings as superstition, he climbed the mound, but failed to find any rock samples that supported his meteorite hypothesis.
12:41Over time, more and more expeditions were carried out to the crater, including one in 2005 in which the leader of the investigation died of a heart attack shortly after visiting the crater.
12:51Based on the findings of recent explorations, scientists have ruled out volcanic eruptions, nuclear explosions, and impact from a meteorite as possible causes for the crater.
13:00In the absence of a solid answer, some have started coming up with all kinds of theories to explain its origin, including the possibility that a UFO landing made the crater.
13:10Others have linked the crater to the Tenguska meteorite, the remains of which have never been discovered.
13:16One of the things that makes it so difficult to determine the origin of Fire Eagle Nest, or Kulpakkov Cone as it's now popularly known, is that the crater frequently changes shape, which suggests that whatever caused it is still affecting it to this day.
13:28The only thing scientists know for sure is that the crater is around 250 years old, which they gathered from the rings on the trees growing on the mound.
13:38Strangely, it's been scientifically proven that the trees closer to the crater grow much faster than normal, which is similar to what happened in the forests around Chernobyl after the nuclear disaster.
13:47The lack of solid explanations, coupled with the weird tree phenomenon, has been fueled to the fire of outlandish conspiracy theories about underground nuclear plants and nuclear-powered UFOs buried beneath the crater.
14:00To this day, scientists still haven't determined what caused Kulpakkov Cone to appear, and no asteroid fragments or metal parts have been found in the crater to support some of the theories people have come up with over the years.
14:10As of today, the most logical explanation is that the mound could have been caused by the underground release of hydrogen fluids and heat from a nearby gas volcano.
14:20This could have caused changes in the size of tree rings, which would explain why scientists thought they were growing at an abnormal rate.
14:27Still, despite the more convincing explanations that have surfaced over the years, the origin of Kulpakkov Cone will probably remain a mystery for many years to come.
14:38Villa Epicune
14:39In the 1920s, a small tourist village about 400 miles from Buenos Aires, Argentina, called Villa Epicune, was built along the shore of Lego Epicune,
14:49a salt lake touted for the health benefits and therapeutic effects of its mineral waters, which were said to be beneficial for rheumatic conditions.
14:57Quickly turning into a weekend getaway for Argentina's upper class, the town soon had a functional railroad station and a population of about 1,500 with a capacity to accommodate
15:06around 5,000 additional visitors at its peak in the 70s.
15:10Due to its popularity as a weekend getaway for Argentine city dwellers, a lot of money was poured into Villa
15:16Epicune to expand its accommodations and make it as comfortable as possible for visitors.
15:22However, it seemed not a lot of resources or attention was dedicated to the containment
15:26dam that separated the lake from the town.
15:28Unfortunately, on November 10, 1985, the containment dam broke during a storm and a series of unusual strong winds.
15:35For two weeks, the water rose at a rate of half an inch per hour, until eventually the containment dam was completely destroyed by the water,
15:42after which all the locals had to abandon their homes and businesses and leave behind Villa Epicune.
15:47Over the following days, the flood drowned the town over 30 feet under water, and it wasn't until 25 years later in 2009 that the waters began to recede
15:57and now show the eerie remains of the town, which now looks like something out of a dystopian movie.
16:03From above, you can see the original layout of the streets of Villa Epicune, along with its many businesses and the houses 1,500 people called home.
16:11With its overgrown trees, rusty post-apocalyptic appearance, and ghost town vibes, Villa Epicune now draws in tourists and photographers from all over the world
16:20who want to get a glimpse of the ruins of the once bustling getaway town.
16:25Due to the high levels of salt in the water that once flooded the town, most of the buildings in Villa Epicune are covered with a thin white residue,
16:32giving the town an even more creepy appearance.
16:35One of the more interesting facts about Villa Epicune is that even after it was completely destroyed by the water
16:40and flooded for more than 25 years, as soon as the water receded in 2009, one of the locals,
16:46then 81-year-old Pablo Novak decided to come back home and live out the rest of his days in Villa Epicune.
16:52Out of the original 1,500 residents of the town, Pablo was the only one who came back.
16:58As the lone inhabitant of Villa Epicune, Novak was officially named cultural ambassador of the town in 2020.
17:05But unfortunately, in January 2024, Pablo Novak passed away at the age of 93,
17:11leaving the town once again completely abandoned.
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