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The Bermuda Triangle has long been considered one of
the most mysterious places on Earth, but it doesn't stand alone! There
are many other places across the globe that are shrouded in mystery as
well.
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Area 51
Perhaps just as famous as the Bermuda Triangle is Area 51 in Nevada. It
is a US military base located about 80 miles north of Las Vegas that has
long been thought to be the place where alien bodies were brought after
the supposed Roswell, New Mexico UFO crash. Today, many claim that there
is reverse engineering of UFO technology taking place on the base and
claim to have seen strange lights near and above the base. Though some
of the strange claims about Area 51 have been debunked, something highly
classified must be going on there as it is more secretive and protected
than most military bases. There are even guards surrounding the base
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Lost City of Atlantis
The Lost City of Atlantis is so mysterious, we don't even know where it
is! This missing island utopia was first mentioned in the writings of
Plato in 360BC and we have been searching for it ever since. Though it
is just as likely that Plato made up the mythical society, people are
fascinated by the thought that there could have been a society that was
such a paradise on Earth that disappeared without a trace. |
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The Devil's Sea
The Bermuda Triangle isn't the only mysterious area of the ocean on our
planet. There is another similar area located just south of Japan called
the Devil's Triangle or the Devil's Sea. It has reports of similar
occurances including disappearances, magnetic anomalies and strange
lights. The Japanese government even sent out a research vessel, the
Kaio Maru, in 1952 to investigate the claims and of course, it vanished
as well! Some of the explanations for the weird happenings are similar
to those given for the Bermuda Triangle, such as UFOs, but another, more
plausible, explanation is the large amount of volcanic activity in the
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Mystery Spot
The Mystery Spot is a location in Santa Cruz, CA where all of the laws
of physics are purportedly thrown out the window! Several strange
occurances happen at the site such as water flowing uphill and people
standing upright but appearing to be at a slant. It is all likely
optical illusions, but when you are there, it is hard to remember that
and you can be left with a very creepy feeling! |
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Lake Anjikuni
Though there have been countless reports of disappearances in the
Bermuda Triangle, it only took one very strange disappearance for Lake
Anjikuni to make this list. Lake Anjikuni is located in Canada and back
in November of 1930, it was home to up to 2000 Inuit people living in a
village on it's banks. One day in that month, a trapper passed through
the town to find that the entire population had vanished, leaving food,
weapons and other supplies behind. Other strange things were amiss in
the village as well, such as a grave that had been dug up and 7 sled
dogs that were found dead of starvation even though there was plenty of
food left open that they could have easily eaten. Though no one to this
day knows what happened to those people, of course one of the main
theories includes alien abduction.
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Superstition Mountains
Superstition Mountains are located east of Phoenix, Arizona. Their
mysterious nature dates back to the 1800s when a man named Jacob Waltz
supposedly found a huge gold mine within the mountains but took the
secret of it's location with him to his death. Now legend says that the
mountains are haunted by the people who lost their lives trying to find
the gold. Native American legends attempt to account for some of the
strange occurances at the mountains. The Apaches claim it is the gate to
hell while another story claims the mountains are guarded by the "tuar-tums"
or "little people" that live in caves and tunnels under the mountains.
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Brown Mountain Lights
Brown Mountain is located in NC. As early as 1913, there have been
reports of mysterious lights being seen above and near the mountain.
They have been described as will-o-the-wisp type lights that strobe and
appear and disappear with no seeming pattern or origin. The phenomenon
is so popular it has been featured in an episode of the X-Files and it
even had a song written about it!
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Bigelow Ranch
Bigelow Ranch is located on 480 acres of land in Utah and is also known
as Skinwalker Ranch. Strange occurances have been reported from the
ranch since the 1950s, including UFO sightings and animal mutilations.
Things really started heating up in 1994 when Terry and Gwen Sherman
bought the ranch, however. They, too, reported seeing UFOS, intelligent
orbs that incinerated three of their dogs, cattle mutilations and a
strange incident of a seemingly tame wolf which allowed them to pet it
but then attacked one of their calves. When they tried to shoot the
wolf, the bullets had no effect on it.
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Michigan Triangle
Lake Michigan is so big, it has it's own mysterious triangle where
disappearances happen as well, both on the water and in the air! One of
the most famous occurances was of a commercial flight that passed
through the triangle in 1950, carrying 58 passengers on board. It was
never seen again!
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