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The Mummified Bog People

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Image of the Tollund Man, the most well-preserved bog body What is a Bog Body? This mystery is more of a creepy one and involves human corpses and mummies. A bog body is a human corpse that has been mummified in a peat bog through natural and environmental elements present in the bog. It is caused by the unique physical and biochemical composition of the bogs. While it's difficult to exactly say how many bog bodies there are, the number is surely in the hundreds. These bodies, sometimes known as bog people, have been found all over the world as well as dating back to different periods, for example, some have been dated to around 8000 BCE while some near the Second World War. While there is such a level of differentiation between these bog bodies, the unifying factor among them is that they have all been found in peat bogs and preserved to a decent extent. Due to the effect of peat, these bog bodies are preserved in a very unique and different way, they often maintain their...

The Unsolved Tunguska Event

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Stock Image of a Burning Forest The Tunguska Event This strange phenomenon, known as "The Tunguska Event," is one of the greatest mysteries of all time if judged on the scale of the event. The Tunguska Event was a large explosion that occurred near the Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia which was at the time, a part of Siberia known as Podkamennaya Tunguska River. The explosion took place in the early hours of 30th June 1908 and reports suggest that the initial sight was a fireball that would have been 50-10 0m wide. It depleted 2,000 sq km of the Taiga forest in the area, flattening a whopping 80 million trees. The shock wave from the explosion has been estimated to have been about a 5.0 on the Richter scale w hich would have been capable of destroying a large metropolitan area. This event has been classified by most scientists to have been an asteroid impact and also the largest "impact event" (collision between 2 astronomical objects causing an impact) in recorde...

The Unknown Mysteries of Pokaini Forest

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Stock Image of a kinda creepy forest. Pokaini Forest & its History Pokaini forest is a forest (obviously) located in Latvia, near a small town named Dobele. This forest has been shrouded in legends and mysteries for many years and is a place that many consider being a strong anomalous zone to the point where even NASA satellites discovered inexplicable radiating energy. An anomalous area is one in which strange and unexplainable occurrences, usually perceived to be paranormal occur often or even regularly. In the case of Pokaini Forest, there are a few reports of strange things happening as far back as the 1930s but nothing was really solid or documented up until the 1990s when the forest was investigated by a researcher which then lead to many more people going to the forest as well as discovering strange occurrences. The forest was allegedly first studied in 1996 by Ivar Viks who was a researcher from Riga. He was supposedly intrigued by the forest and the va...

The Massive Primate, Bigfoot

Bigfoot is one of the more well known urban legends that I'm sure lots of you must have heard about at some point or the other. The legend states that Bigfoot is a large, primate-like creature that walks in an upright position like humans standing at about 7-9 feet tall and there are assumed to be more than one in existence. They are described to be very muscular and covered in black or dark coloured hair. Most importantly, as the name suggests they leave massive footprints which are said to be as large as 24 inches in length and 8 inches in width. These creatures are primarily spotted in North America and are also known by the name "Sasquatch" While there are traces of wild man-like creatures from earlier times it never really formed into the bigfoot legend that we know until around the 1950s. This is because, In 1958, a journalist named Andrew Genzoli highlighted a letter from a reader stating that loggers in California had found mysteriously large footprints in the wo...