10 Mysterious Discoveries on Earth that Cannot be Explained

Check out some of the most outrageous unexplained discoveries to exist on Earth. From the Volograd Stones that many feel are alien in nature to the mountain in China that lays stone eggs that fall to the ground, here are 10 mysterious discoveries that scientists cannot explain.

10.The Enchanted Valley

South America is home to many mysterious discoveries, one of which being the Enchanted Valley. In Spanish, it is known as El Valle del Encanto, and it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Chile due to its abundant rock art.

The cup-marked stones, pictographs, and petroglyphs in the Enchanted Valley are attributed by researchers to the El Molle culture 2,300 years ago, yet herein lies the puzzle. Numerous scientists claim that the rock art scattered throughout the stones is actually a lithic library containing records of ancient alien visits to Earth during the prehistoric period.

9. Volograd Stones

In 2015, a team of Russian UFO investigators discovered several strange-looking stone discs in the Volograd region. The discs were discovered to be composed of tungsten, a metal typically employed in military technologies.

The discs were discovered in the Zhirnovsky neighborhood, which is renowned for unexplained occurrences. While geologists believe the discs could be the consequence of erosion, Ufologists do not accept this explanation. Instead, scientists believed the discs were alien in origin and may have been left behind by a spaceship. The majority of the discs were discovered to have a diameter of 3.28 feet (1 m), however one discovered in Kuzbass was enormous at 6.56 feet (2 m).

8.The Large Snake Mound

If you’re in Ohio, don’t miss the opportunity to visit the Great Serpent Mound in Peebles. The Serpent Mound is a 3-foot-tall (91-centimeter-tall) historical site. The mound is a snake-shaped effigy mound, and it appears like a snake with a coiled tail rests just beneath the soil’s surface.

The site dates back to 1000 A.D and archaeologists believe that Ancient American Indians who lived there at the time may have used it for spiritual rites. Archaeologists have yet to determine who erected the mound because no artefacts from any culture were discovered during excavations in the vicinity. Due to the discovery of three Adena burial mounds nearby, it is hypothesized that the mound was erected by the Adena civilization.

7. The Gates of Hell

Among mysterious discoveries, in the ancient city of Hierapolis, archaeologists in Turkey discovered a stone entryway that led to a small cave-like grotto a decade ago. Hierapolis is 2,200 years old and home to supposedly healing hot springs, but it also conceals something more sinister. A gate built into one of the arena’s rectangular walls and surrounded by stone benches was unearthed. It functioned as the entrance of a tunnel where animals and birds routinely perished just by entering.

The gate named Plutonium was devoted to Pluto, the underworld’s god, and was also known as the gates of hell. Geologists discovered a deep hole beneath Hierapolis from which CO2 was leaking into the corridor as a lethal mist that hovered over the ground. In 2011, scientists noticed that the gateway was still working since birds that flew through it landed lifeless.

6. Trovants, the Living Stones of Romania

Can rocks move, grow, and reproduce? Check out the Trovants stones of Romania one of the craziest mysterious discoveries on the planet. This awe-inspiring geological phenomena was generated approximately six million years ago by prehistoric earthquakes and complex conditions involving seismic shifts, sand sedimentation in rivers, and rainfall throughout time.

The Trovants are referred to as the stones of Costesti, the place where they were discovered, and are regarded as living stones by locals who have witnessed them growing, spreading, and moving over decades. The unusual stones have also inspired a number of local myths and stories. Geologists continue to investigate the Trovants, which they consider a massive natural enigma.

5. Copper Scroll from Qumran

The old Metallic Copper Scroll was among the most difficult artefacts discovered by archaeologists in the Qumran caves in 1952. Qumran is the location where hundreds of scrolls containing writings attributed to the apostles of Jesus Christ were discovered in clay jars known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The discoveries of the 1940s and 1950s captivated experts around the world, but it was the Metallic Copper Scroll that posed the greatest enigma.

It is thought to be a document disclosing incomprehensible gold and silver treasures hidden in the region, including records of Noah’s Ark. According to James Davila, a lecturer at the University of St. Andrew, The Metallic Copper Scroll dates back 1,900 years and has startling parallels with the Treatise of Vessels, which describes King Solomon’s wealth, including the location of the legendary missing ark of the covenant, but it remains a mystery to this day.

4. The Upton Chamber Cave

The Upton Chamber Cave is another among mysterious discoveries puzzling archaeologists, since no one knows who constructed it. The cave in Massachusetts is a 14-foot-long (4.26-meter-long) tube carved into a hill. It opens from a forest and is pretty spooky within. The tunnel leads to a gloomy, igloo-like underground cavern with a dome, but that’s not the important part.

Amazingly, the chamber’s entrance aligns with the sun during the summer solstice, despite the view of some experts that the cave was constructed in the 1800s by a local leather tanner. Even more puzzling is the discovery of more than 300 identical weird stone chambers around New England. Archaeologists remain divided. Some believe the caverns were constructed by European settlers, while others believe they were constructed by Native Americans at the period as ritual chambers.

3. Dropa Stones

Dr. Chi Pu Tei, a Chinese archaeologist, discovered an interesting discovery in Baian Kara Ula, China, in 1938. He discovered hundreds of odd metallic stone discs with holes in the centre, identical to phonograph records. The discs with illegible hieroglyphics and grooves on their surface were discovered to be 10,000 years old and appeared to have been made by a local ancient society.

The discs were known as Dropa Stones, but it is unknown who made them or why. Were they a type of communication equipment created by an alien civilization? Tablets holding recorded information detailing the presence of a spacecraft that may have crashed into the mountains and was operated by the Dropa, according to the researchers. Moscow specialists even devised a particular turntable for the stones that produced a vibrating hum with a distinct cadence, comparable to an electric current. To this day, however, the Dropa Stones remain one of the greatest mysteries in the world.

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2. The Rarest Mineral on Earth

The rarest mineral on earth exists in a single gemstone. Some minerals can be found nearly everywhere, while others are so rare that only one instance is known. You could be forgiven for assuming that even the rarest and most valuable minerals on our planet can be located with sufficient time and money, yet there is one mineral that has only ever been discovered once. A single orange gemstone weighing 1.61 carats, known as Kyawthuite, was discovered in the Mogok region of Myanmar. It is a naturally occurring bismuth antimonate about which little is known, making it one of the rarest and most mysterious minerals on Earth.

1. The Mountain That Lays Eggs

Have you heard of the egg-laying mountain? As if living stones weren’t surprising enough, this is a mountain that lays eggs and it is by far one of the most famous mysterious discoveries that just can’t be explained. Mount Gandang, located in southern China, has fascinated geologists and villagers for decades. A cliff on the base of the mountain’s granite walls is renowned for laying stone eggs every 30 years.

What scientists cannot determine is the origin of these stone eggs. The mountain cliff, known locally as “Chan Dan Ya” or “egg-laying cliff,” is around 20 feet (6 metres) wide and 65 feet (20 metres) long. Once the egg detaches from the cliff wall, it falls to the ground, and the local who discovers it is fortunate. The egg-laying cliff is one of China’s most peculiar features.