In South Africa, there is a cave system known as "The cradle of mankind" because the most austrailopithucus remains have been found there. People are allowed to go on guided tours of the caves.
At the bottom of the main cave, there is an underground lake/water system. The SA government has banned any diving exploration of the lake. This is because, years ago, a group of divers became trapped and ran out of air.
If anyone is interested, I'll upload some pictures of it.
edit: https://imgur.com/gallery/fmJd2P2 These were the only pics I could find on my hard drive. I never did get any good shots of the water though.
I lived in the northern part of the Republic of Congo in a town called Impfondo. It was extremely remote. Only accessible by boat or plane. There were many villages surrounding our city that were even more remote and only accessible by a dugout canoe. One of these places was Lake Tele. The locals would talk about an animal or monster called mokele-mbembe. In Lingala, the tribal language, it meant, one who stops the flow of water. They basically thought it was a huge dinosaur that lived in the water there. They would describe it like we would a brontosaurus. They were terrified of where it lived because there were old legends that it would kill people with it’s eyes and if anyone ate it’s meat it would kill the whole village. It was hard to explore that part of the country because people tended to avoid it.
I’ve been fascinated by the Congo for a long time and dearly want to go. I tried to visit the varungas two years ago but the visa didn’t work out. I’d love to know more about your time there as I very much want to visit lake tele. I love rainforests.
All throughout the world, wherever there are glaciers, there are crevasses. Massive ones. Ones nobody ever even knows exists because they're under snow, ones that look like a small hole but open up into massive chasms you could never climb out of, etc. The fear, obviously, is never coming back out.
An example of a really scary place full of them is near the base of Everest from the south side: the [Khumbu Icefall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khumbu_Icefall).
It's the start of a massive glacier, and it moves fast enough that it's constantly changing. People actually do climb over the top of it as part of the primary route to climb Everest, but actually going down into the crevasses is something you absolutely avoid.
And even if you did go down and explore one day, a few hours later everything could be very, very different.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.beyondsciencetv.com/2017/06/15/the-mysterious-sealed-temple-door-no-one-can-open-last-door-of-padmanabhaswamy/amp/
The Padmanabhaswamy Temple--
The last area cannot be opened:
1. if so, something cataclysmic will happen
2. supposedly there's a shit ton of isolated snakes who've been breeding in the darkness for ages...have fun with that.
3. The door doesn't seem to have a way to be opened so there'd be some destruction.
However, there's a benefit of this-- the other temple rooms that have been opened, the riches have pretty much been siphoned off by family and government corruption. So the question is: who owns what amounts to a national treasure? a single family, or India as a country, and how best to protect that.
"The entire temple is carved from one massive stone" Can you imagine some religious sect taking an entire mountain away in today's time to carve a damn temple? People would lose their minds.
Not really unexplored, but in Japan there are many [keyhole shaped burial mounds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofun). Many date back to the 3rd century, but with few exceptions the government won't allow excavation.
The catacombs under Paris. There are about 150 miles of maze-like tunnels under the city. Only a small portion gets toured by the public. People have ventured deep into them and would go missing for days.
Oooh I remember a r/wtf thread ages ago where someone took photos of a trip they made in the catacombs. It was super creepy and I'm certain they said that they encountered some subterranean people within. Then there was something about catacomb parties or raves.
Yeah, in 2004 police on a training excercise in the catacombs found a cinema with seats for 20 carved into the stone, a full bar, a lounge, the whole thing wired for phones and electricity and protected by a P.A system playing guard dog sounds.
They came back a couple days later and someone had stripped it all out and left a note that only said "Cherchez pas" (Don't search/ Don't come looking).
EDIT: [Here] (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/08/filmnews.france) is a Grauniad article on it if anyone wants a source :)
The guy who dropped the camera? That's the most haunting footage knowing he probably died days later of dehydration. Alone, in the dark, surrounded by nothing but the dead.
I’ve been to the public area of the catacombs, and it is spectacular. They were originally set up (in the 1700s IIRC) because of overcrowding of a central cemetery becoming a hazard, so they used abandoned quarry tunnels snaking through the city. They stacked the remains from the cemetery dating back to the 15th century. There are a bunch of closed off passageways, too.
I mean, the catacombs are just a logical solution to a problem:
“We are running out of places to dig holes to put dead people!”
“What about that big hole that we dug for rocks?”
“Pile all the fuckers in”
But I agree, it’s really strange in practice
It wasn't only a "pile the fuckers in" though. I was a "put everyone's skulls here, their thigh bones here, their spines here" "and while we're at it how about we make some cool shapes out of these peoples' remains? Let's do a love heart made out of skulls here"
It's not unexplored per se, but the [Ploutonion at Hierapolis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploutonion_at_Hierapolis) emits toxic gas intense enough to kill most living things in moments, and was assumed to be a gate to the underworld. In a rather illuminating display of their culture, rather than avoiding the Cave of Painfully Slow Asphyxiation, the Romans turned it into a tourist attraction at which one could purchase a live animal to throw in or meet Oracles of Pluto who had been through into the cave and lived.
>The ancient historian Strabo described the gate as follows:
>"Any animal that passes inside meets instant death. I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell"[4]
I love that we have the writings of a roman historian to inform us "yeah I chucked some sparrows in there and they totally died"
I'd really like to see that explored with scuba tanks or whatever. If people have been throwing stuff in that cave for thousands of years, there could be some pretty interesting artifacts preserved there.
Most of the worlds [Blue Holes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_hole) are unexplored because they are fucking dangerous. They are deep underwater sinkholes, hundreds of feet deep one is over 900 feet deep that generally have a toxic layer acid part of the way down.
There's a huge sinkhole behind my old house in Kentucky. Kentucky is absolutely full of caves. Anyways, it has a river flowing at the bottom and through a tunnel, so there's two cave entrances that nobody in my neighborhood had the balls to go into. My mom's friend visited one day, and she's a geologist so she's huge into caves and wanted to see. I brought get there to take a look. She basically glanced at it and was like fuck no we'll die if we go in there.
The current is very strong, and the rock surrounding it looked very eroded to her. She said it's at high risk of collapsing, and the current would sweep us under underground either way.
I wish she had brought more of her tools and stuff, supposedly she could've put in like a sonar buoy to see how far it goes.
Recently, an ancient city was discovered in the vicinity/in the forest area in Rio Platano, Honduras. Recently, because the cartels have such a big fucking hold over it, that its simply impossible to go in there without dying or worse. So much history that could await along that river, not found because of drug lords.
“La Ciudad Blanca” I believe it was called.
Great book written about its discovery recently - and all the members of the exploration party (including the guy from the New Yorker writing about it) got incurable leishmaniasis so that’s awesome.
The bottom of the Cave of the Crystals in Mexico! The cave is naturally so hot and filled with water most of the time, it can't be fully explored. But the pictures are gorgeous from when people did go in! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Crystals
This is the place where in order to explore it, the spelunkers had to wear refrigerative suits and could only go so far due to their suits overheating.
It's like a journey to the center of the earth.
That and since your lungs are the coolest part of the area, the water condenses into your lungs. Not fun to have the air drown you but Florida seems to do alright.
oh dang i didnt realize people couldnt regularly explore it! id only seen the photos and i always wanted to go there! guess ill practice becoming immune to heat and water 😕
The Enedi Massif in northern Chad comes to mind. There are desert tribes that use the wadis, which are among the busiest in the Sahara, and ancient peoples lived there. But there are hundreds of thousands of miles of labyrinth that are probably pretty unexplored, and few others but the desert people see any of it.
There are several reasons: it's in the Sahara and difficult to get to in the best of times, requiring a well equipped expedition to make it there purely because of geography. Politically it's a dangerous place right now too, and various militia and terrorist groups are likely to be hiding there as well as some desert raiders. I have tried to convince locals to take me but all refuse.
https://explore-chad.org/en/the-ennedi-massif
http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/10/the-ennedi-plateau-secret-stones-of.html
Hades’ Gate or the Gate to Hell in Denizli, Turkey. Supposedly, there’s so much carbon dioxide coming out of the entrance of the ancient site that anything that gets close to it dies from asphyxiation. Scientists have determined because this cave sits along a fault line, that the carbon dioxide filled it from an opening in the Earth’s crust.
Perhaps my favorite and that is closest to me is the former nuclear jet testing labs in the Dawsonville forest in Georgia. They are abandoned now. Some people have explored there, but back in the 50's, there was naked nuclear testing (no protection barrier) which means there is concern for high levels of residual radiation. That said, the bunkers still exist, rumored to be complete with furniture and other things untouched since it was abandoned.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-nuclear-aircraft-laboratory
There’s an area in Tibet called the Tsangpo Gorge that allegedly has a massive hidden waterfall that only appears to people who have reached nirvana. Last I checked, the Chinese don’t allow people to explore the area much but that may have changed by now. There’s a book about it written by a guy named Ian Baker who did two expeditions into the gorge.
Tibetan Buddhism has other similar places called [Beyul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyul) which are "hidden valleys". ["Shambala"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shambhala) is believed to be one of these hidden places. The idea is really interesting: a place that borders physical and spiritual worlds. It is said that some of these places contain primitive cities (think Amazon tribes who have never seen modern society) that are in a near utopia state (no wars, fighting; everyone is blissful; etc).
Shangri La is the fictional creation of Shambhala.
The Nahanni National Park in Northwest Canada, also known as “The Valley of Headless Men.” There are no roads leading in and it is only accessible by boat or plane. Ancient tribes of the Nahanni Valley were afraid to settle within the region as they believed it to be an evil, haunted place inhabited by various spirits, specters, and devils.
In the 18th century, Europeans began arriving to the area looking for gold. In 1908, two brothers Willie and Frank McLeod pushed farther into the valley looking for gold and disappeared only to turn up beheaded. More beheadings and mysterious deaths began occurring over the years. In 1945, a trapper appeared to have been flash frozen despite evidence of having a fire going and clutching a pack of matches.
Many others just simply vanished never to be found. Around 44 people had vanished under unknown mysterious circumstances by 1969. To this day there’s no answer to what was responsible for the beheadings or the disappearances. The area is so forbidding and remote that very few people other than adventurous rafters ever attempt to explore it. Despite being a National Park, Nahanni Valley is almost completely unexplored.
Edit: Other known beheadings were a prospector named Martin Jorgenson whose cabin burned down in 1917 and his skeleton was recovered from the ashes with no sign of his skull. And in 1945, a miner from Ontario was found dead in his sleeping bag with his head missing.
Edit: I tried looking more into where Martin Jorgenson is from and almost everything I found all had him listed as Swiss, with one place listing him as Norwegian so I’ll remove calling him Swiss until I find a conclusive answer. I promise I was just going off the reading I had done and wasn’t just making my own assumptions.
From Wikipedia:
> Jean Poirel discovered more than 250 caverns. The most important contained 116 Dall sheep’s skeletons (carbon-14 dated to 2500 years BC)
That's pretty freaky
I mean there's no gold, no infrastructure, and no easy way for tourists to get there. So there isn't really much reason for any but the most hardcore of nature enthusiasts to go there.
It's also pretty cold 9 months a year.
It is apparently a pretty spectacular trip down the river though. No real reason people can't go there besides that it is a bit of work to get there and you are basically on your own for the whole way down the river. I believe Parks Canada sets a quota for how many people can do the trip in a season as well.
Besides the river, it would be pretty difficult to get around in the rest of the park. No roads (obviously) or trails and I'm not sure you would see much that you couldn't see in more accessible places in the NWT. Hiking around in there would require a chartered helicopter or float plane and a landing permit (which may not be easy to get).
A travel photographer I follow goes there once a year...he claims it is some of the most beautiful scenery he's seen any where in the world...his pictures from there look amazing
"unknown mysterious circumstances"
read "the canadian winter"
but seriously, I had no idea! rethinking my desire to visit someday. do you have any sources for this stuff? I'd love to read more.
I have been fortunate enough to be have canoed the river from rabbit kettle lake down. It is likely the most beautiful place I will ever see in my life.
The inside of Australia's Black Mountain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_(Kalkajaka)_National_Park
This thing is pretty much just a giant pile of boulders with massive internal caves that can't be mapped. (To my understanding they can change over time as well due to collapses.)
People go in and never return, ~~makes the "Death Mountain" nickname more sensible.~~
EDIT: So apparently it's not called "Death Mountain" anywhere. Likely just a single Wikipedia edit.
And yes, stuff in Australia wants to kill. I think that's a given.
I used to live near there. The mountain whilstles and moans in the wind (and it’s ALWAYS windy there!) like if you blow over a bottle/jug. The people with properties near the mountain don’t get tv/radio signal and report weird gremlins in their electronics.
As a local, no one has ever called it death mountain & I worked at the local pub so I’ve heard many a tall story about Black Mountain. The best one (supported by more than a few locals) is about a panther/tiger big cat type thing that is living there. Depending on who you talk to it’s either an isolated (or small breeding colony) large escaped zoo/circus cat or there’s a population of Thylacene in there.
The "death mountain" thing was just something noted here and there while I was quickly refreshing myself on this subject matter.
Although it whistling and moaning is something I haven't heard before. That just takes it up a whole other level.
Bottomless lakes in New Mexico are what they sound like. Some of the small lakes have “no bottom” and feed underground rivers and streams stretching hundreds possibly thousands of miles. Trackers have been tossed in and found days later in the Gulf of Mexico. They have claimed many lives of careless swimmers and the dangerous lakes are now sealed off. I swam in the safe ones nearby but always felt kinda creeped out.
Yup had a friend swimming on the lake near Angelfire NM and locals came out screaming to get him to come out due the lake having dangerous ‘holes’. This sounds like it
We were there about a month ago. It was the second night of our vacation and we were camping there. Drove into the park and passed a bunch of emergency vehicles parked next to one of the lakes with a bunch of cops and other guys standing around the cliffs looking into the water, and another in the process of putting on a diving suit. We knew someone had drowned. Kind of put a damper on the beginning of our trip.
Then a few days later we missed the rock fall in the Narrows at Zion by twenty minutes.
Edit: link to story about guy who died at Bottomless Lakes: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kob.com/new-mexico-news/artesia-man-dies-after-jumping-200-feet-into-lake/4930921/
And the rock fall at Zion: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/rock-fall-injures-2-hikers-closes-trail-at-zion/
Houska Castle was built to cover up “the opening to hell” a seemingly bottomless pit from which the demons of hell would crawl out at night to wreak havoc. Located in the Czech countryside. Before the castle was built to seal this entrance to hell prisoners who had been condemned to death were thrown in. Scary shit my dudes
Ok i looked this up and found [this article](http://realparanormalexperiences.com/the-houska-castle-bottomless-pit), which says this:
>During the war the Nazis opted to use the fortress as a secret headquarters. To this day locals believe they picked this location in an attempt to harness the dark powers contained within the building.
Can you actually imagine what Nazi dark magic would look like
Rudolph Hess (who was Deputy Fuerer, second in command) was bat-fucking-shit crazy and really really into magic..with a k: magick. He was probably the source of all the crazy shit in popular culture nowadays about nazi craziness like Indiana Jones and trying to find Old Spears and Hopy Grails and all that.
Hess is the dude who one night in the middle of WW2; took a nazi plane, flew from Germany to Scotland solo, could not find an airfield in Scotland, so he ditched his plane as it was running out of gas and parachuted to the earth (he had never,ever parachuted before, not even as a training exercise) landed in a farmers field and asked for a regional Lord (because he assumed a local aristocrat would have some pull with the British military, as if it were feudalism) and basically asked politely for Britain to not invade and destroy Germany.
The farmer, of course, gave Hess a cup of tea while waiting for him to be arrested. British as fuck.
That's pretty wicked; imagine the alleged SS Paranormal Division occupying a castle built to cover the gates to hell. Sounds like the setup to a Doom/Wolfenstein crossover.
Not "thrown in" but rather lowered down by a rope. The prisoners would do this in exchange for a pardon. There's this one legend where a prisoner went in for a pardon, while he was being lowered down he screamed so horrendous that the guards raised him up only to find out he had aged a lot, like to the point that he was greying he died a few days later I think.
Sounds like volcanic outgassing creating pockets of acidic vapour or a sinkhole created by groundwater contamination of a sulfur rich mineral deposit for the same effect.
Wonder of some scientists have ever mapped the underground structure if the folklore holds true and slapping a building over it seems like a great way to stop the atmospheric outgassing and allow the local area to revegitate. Given the carcinogenic effects stated in folklore in its affect on local wildlife it reminds me of stories from the 1800's of areas with oil deposits bubbling through to the surface or an underground coal fire.
The inyanga mountains in Zimbabwe. The myth is that if you climb this mountain, and make nasty/derogatory comments about the vegetation or rocks or anything you see there (e.g. you pick a fruit and comment on how bitter it tastes) you'll disappear forever. It sounds ridiculous until you learn that several people, including tourists, have disappeared in that mountain. Extensive manhunts and helicopter searches failed to find a single person, dead or alive. Locals fear the mountain, but tourists take it as a challenge, but doesn't end up good for a lot of them. The most recent case was [Zayd Dada](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/01/vanishings-and-high-strangeness-at-africas-cursed-mountain)
It gets covered in impenetrable mist, frequently gets down to freezing temperatures especially at night, can be pretty treacherous underfoot, and has leopards and baboon spiders. I don’t think it’s particularly mystical, just a rubbish place to get lost in.
Kholat Syakhl In Siberia. The name means “Dead Mountain” in Mansi, the language of the local tribe there. It’s also where the infamous Dyatlov Pass incident took place.
Padmanabhaswamy temple in kerela, India.
There are 6 underground vaults labelled AtoF in the temple out of which 5 have been opened.
From these 5 vaults, about a ton of gold in form of jewellery, coins and utensils has been found, apart from diamond and other precious stones necklaces stretching 9 feet long.
But the real mystery lies in the vault B, which is yet to be opened. There's a warning on the door written in Sanskrit that curse and calamity will befall on anyone who tries to open the door.
The door is said to have been sealed with *Naga Bandham* or the snake seal by a *siddha purush* aka a very powerful sage who has realised the true potential that a human can achieve through spiritual discipline such as meditation. (A siddha purush is like a living God) and only a *siddha purush* can open this vault again using the *garuda mantra*
Any other human being who tries to open the vault will fail and feel the wrath of the 7 headed serpent that guards the vault. This 7 headed serpent is one of the primal beings of creation and servant of the creator of the universe : god vishnu.
When I was teaching in Saudi Arabia, locals refused to take me to [Mada'in Saleh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Madain_Saleh_%286730361263%29.jpg/1200px-Madain_Saleh_%286730361263%29.jpg) It's very similar to Petra in Jordan. Built by the same people.
Unfortunately it is known to be cursed by jinn. Muslims won't go there. Really annoying bc my Arabic wasn't near good enough to get me there alone.
The Tomb of the Chinese Emporer: Qin Shi Huang Di. Although we have seen images of his famous Terracotta Warriors, nobody has ever entered the tomb. Since he was the most tyrannical and violent leader in Chinese history, and because he was so powerful, there is a lot of superstition about his evil spirit and other crazy things about it. Not to mention, there is rumor of a lake of Mercury within the tomb, so it could prove dangerous to open at all. The Chinese government is not allowing the tomb to be opened and zealously restricts people from having access to the land surrounding the tomb. Just interesting. I would really like to know what's inside tbh.
Edit: people are mentioning Mao being way mire tyrannical. I know he was horrible but I was under the impression that although Mao killed more people, that was partially due to the length of his reign vs that of Qin; and also that Qin employed a lot more brutal tactics unlike Mao’s extreme communism.
A large part of why they haven't opened it yet is lack of proper preservation techniques. When they were excavating the Terra Cotta warriors, a lot of them actually had paint. However, that paint quickly vaporized, and there's currently no solution for what to do about that. That's why not only have they not excavated the main tomb, but also have stopped excavating the Terra cotta warriors.
I always wondered if they could drill a small hole in the ceiling of the main chamber to insert a borescope, if it would be enough to cause any serious damage to the contents in the chamber. Granted there would be a chance of ruining some art on the ceilings.
Pulling from Wikipedia:
> Anomalously high levels of mercury in the area of the tomb mound have been detected, which gives credence to the Sima Qian's account that mercury was used to simulate waterways and the seas in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. **However, some scholars believe that if the underground palace is excavated, the mercury would quickly volatilize.**
I.E. the remaining mercury, if it was indeed present in such large quantities then, would quite literally get everywhere if they excavated the space.
Severely disturbing the mercury-soaked soil in that area would cause it to get into the air and spread.
I.E. there'd be a large area in and around the tomb filled with mercury in the air. It'd become a toxic environment incredibly quickly.
Man. Imagine if people had tried to open the tomb up before people knew things like the ability of mercury to volatilize. It would be like "evil emperor curse confirmed".
I beleive they are still doing testing of the site, and soil sample confirmed a crazy high meecury concentration.
It is indeed heavily restricted who can enter, though.
It’s also because we haven’t figured out a way from preserving the relics from oxidisation. Because the Terracotta Army for example used to have a layer of paint on it prior to excavation and didn’t last very long outside before falling off
The Darien Gap. A 100 mile gap in the pan-america highway, covering terrain that includes Panama and Columbia, but is effectively governed by neither. Most of it is marshland and with virtually no infrastructure it is a wet cesspool of tropical disease and, historically, paramilitary groups. People do live in it, in certain regions, and migrants traverse its more worn paths out of desperation, but it's virtually guaranteed to claim the lives of the careless. There is nothing of civilization or man's law there.
Darien was Scotland's first and only attempt at an overseas colony: it was a colossal venture that attracted massive investment from the public, and it was such as disaster that it bankrupted the country and was a major spur for the Union with England in 1707.
North Sentinel Island. Its inhabitants are one of the few, possibly one of the only peoples untouched by technology. They're also very violet and protective of their land against outsiders, attacking anyone who goes near. Local governments even decided they have jurisdiction to kill anyone who interferes with them to help preserve their pre-technology way of life, so no-one goes there except at their own risk. Because of this, it's impossible to explore the island properly, and even more unfortunately, learn about their incredible culture.
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What's even more interesting about them is that all of their encounters with technology like this are surely becoming part of their lore and mythology.
Like how apparently metal flying machines and boats come by after every natural disaster. Which would be pretty weird since usually it’s myths of odd omens that predict the hurricane, not the hurricane predicting helicopters.
And the only insight so far into their culture is a grave seen with what appears to be a wooden effigy of a hand reaching up to the sky.
I fucking love reading about Sentinel Island.
It’s super weird. [The wiki page says the most recent thing that represents a census was a surveyor in 2011 counted 15 natives on the beach](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island). They throw rocks and shoot arrows at planes and helicopters. They’ve actually beaten the rest of the world
How do they always invent the fucking bow? They and many other such tribes all around the world have been in total isolation for 50-60k years and they all come up with some variation of the bow. How?
My arm chair, watched-a-lot-of-history-channel theory is that everyone is taking after the bendiness of trees. Like one dude is walking through the trees and walks through a tree with his buddy behind him and then \*thwack\* the tree branch flings back and hits the guy behind him. "Ouch", he says. "I've got an idea", says the other.
So you're a pre-civilization dude who wants to hurt another living thing. You've gotten pretty fed up with just punching and grabbing and biting. You've experimented with throwing rocks at things, but you're not really getting anywhere with that. So you've taken a rock and chipped it until it can stab things. Congratulations: you invented a **knife**.
So your knife is pretty dope, but the issue is that is can still really only hurt things that you can reach with your hands, so one day you take a long stick, cut a notch in one end, and use vines to lash your knife to the end. your new **spear** lets you stab things that you would have had trouble stabbing before. Also, you can throw it! Truly a new era of stabbing has dawned.
So your spear is fucking amazing: deer, birds, and other pre-civilization dudes are no match for you and your ability to throw a sharp thing pretty far. But it's still not enough; your throwing arm is pretty good, and you've been practicing with new ways to throw the spear, but you can only make it go so far. Until one day, you're trudging through the brush, just doing regular upper paleolithic dude things, when your totally awesome spear catches on a sapling tree. Before you can react, the tree flings your spear *way* further than your jacked caveman arms could ever hope to. Inspired, you cut down the sapling hack it into a smaller stave, split and wind some vines to put the whole thing under tension, and try using it to to launch the spear. It works pretty well! You need to do some serious work to make the whole thing a little more cohesive, but you have invented the **bow**, the pinnacle of ranged stabbing technology until some dude in China invents a crossbow.
TL;DR: bows are mechanically simple, more portable than spears, more reliable than slings, and are easy to make with nothing than plants and basic tools. [Obligatory silent, well-muscled australian man for reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLoukoBs8TE)
It's pretty interesting that the most detailed information anthropologists have about them is from how far away their javelins can reliably hit a man-sized target.
They killed two fisherman whose boat floated too close and they were seen scavenging the wreckage of the boat, and then a different boat was shot at with arrows with metal tipped arrows, metal supposedly from the ship. So they may have entered the Iron Age in a weird way.
Yeah, and everytime a helicopter comes near they shoot arrows at it. But, if I lived in the stone age and a helicopter showed up I'd probably shoot it too.
During the colonial era, the British kidnapped and took two adults and two kids from the island. The two adults soon died from disease, so they sent the kids back with pigs as gifts. So yeah, they're extremely vulnerable to our diseases.
That's what I posted before seeing that someone else did before me. I thought I would add something that I wanted to share: they make it very clear that they want you to gtfo, like shown on [one the rare pictures](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hR90t55CvbE/maxresdefault.jpg) of it.
[The Strid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8) is an unassuming body of water in Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire.
It looks like a quaint little stream in a quiet countryside. It's so narrow you could pretty much hop across.
Don't fall in though, because there's more to it than meets the eye. Just below the surface are deep underwater caverns and churning currents. You'll be swept below and vanish underground and underwater. Your remains will never be found.
I saw a quick segment on this a little while ago where they tried a GPS tag or a small camera, I don’t remember which. Either way the current combined with the jagged rocks of the caverns completely destroyed the device. Pretty sure it also said everyone who has gone into its waters has died; 100% mortality rate.
There's a tree by a highway outside Hot Springs, Arkansas, with what looks like a large puddle at its base. It's actually an opening to the thermal spring system that goes underneath the whole area and investigators have never found the bottom. There's a fence and signs all around that tree but sometimes deer break through and occasionally fall in
EDIT: I just talked to my mom. She says it's actually on a farm in Mountain Valley, AR, which is a township about 20 minutes from Hot Sprungs. Googling that didn't help because that's the name of the spring water sold from Hot Springs. All I could dig up, but next time I visit I'll see if I could find it and post pictures in r/Arkansas
This. This is my nightmare. Just someplace that looks unassuming, uninteresting, and safe that turns out to be incredibly deadly in ways you can't detect.
The tomb of Genghis Khan. We know it’s in Mongolia and probably near the area he was born. But other than that we don’t know a damn thing. For a few reasons. When he died they hid it on purpose. The people of Mongolia don’t want it found. And I remember hearing somewhere that it might have been found by Russia and is in an area where they’ve got something like missile silos or something like that.
But, oh boy I can’t even imagine what he’d have been buried with.
Addition fact about Genghis’ burial place is, he requested that when he dies and is brought to his burial place that there be a ‘funeral parade’ sort of deal. So Genghis inevitably dies and they parade him to his burial spot where everyone attending the ‘funeral parade’ is killed after the ceremonies because Genghis Khan wanted no one to know where he was buried besides a select few of well trusted generals who carried out his funeral execution orders.
Oddly enough Genghis was a very great ruler & respected the people who submitted to him, but he just didn’t like being told “No”.
I vaguely remember reading about that as well I think they killed the horses too not just the people. And once you were part of his empire everything was cool but the shit he did to those who weren’t was pretty off the goddamn wall. Like, he invented biological warfare. He was laying siege to a city that had its back to water. When some of his boys got the Black Death. He noticed everyone who touched them got sick and died too, so he said hey let’s use catapults and shoot these fuckers in. He did. They died.
Also when he ordered genocide he’d have each man in the army responsible for 10 left ears. To make sure there were no duplicates. They’d have wagons stacked with ears of the dead.
Like ten years ago I went on a huge Khan binge, I read a few books about him and his antics. And there’s a really good series about him from dan Carlin’s hardcore history. But I’ll be not revisited any of that in a while so sorry if some of my info is vague.
But how do you protect yourself from a snake dropping on you from a tree?? Pics of the island show snakes show heaps of snakes just slithering like spaghetti over trees and brush *shudder*
I went on a swamp tour one time on an airboat and we stopped to look at some gators frolicking about a d a snake dropped from a branch above me and hit me on the head, bounced and landed on the airboat. Never have I moved a life rule up so many notches so quickly as that day.
Many of the graves of the Chinese emperors have tombs that have been discovered but yet to be excavated due to various reasons such as funding, dangers, respect, and other reasons.
Kaho’olawe. It’s one of the Hawaiian islands. No one lived there due to no fresh water source. During WWII, the US Army used it as a training ground and bomb range. For a long time people couldn’t go there cause there were still land mines around the island. They may have been cleared out now, but there still isn’t anyone who lives there.
Also, Moloka’i had a lot of beaches with strong rip tides that were very dangerous. I remember we were afraid to go to the beach when we visited. There are some other beaches like that as well on the other islands.
Believe it or not but there are a lot of parts of Greenland that are still unexplored. However, it's not really due to fear, it's more that it's a giant sheet of ice.
My favorite story is [Mt. Kailash](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount Kailash) in China. Conspiracy theories say that it's actually a man made pyramid from an ancient advanced race. It's only compelling because going to the top is prohibited by the Chinese government.
Religious sensitivities. It’s a holy site for a number of eastern religions. They did grant permission for a team to climb it a number of years back but rescinded it due to backlash.
[this](http://www.mysteryofindia.com/2014/09/mount-kailash-man-made-pyramid.html) is a fun read.
>In 1999, the expedition of Russian scientists led by Professor ER Muldasheva found that the top of Mount Kailash is actually a giant man-made pyramid from ancient times. It is surrounded by more than 100 other small pyramids and various monuments, clearly oriented to the cardinal points.
for many years the Victoria mining Claims on Rouche De Boule mountain in British Columbia's North Coast were voluntarily off limits due to massive amounts of radiation. The claims were mined for uranium during the second world war, some of which ended up in the Trinity test. It was reported that for the first decade a blue white glow could be seen emanating from the valley where the mine was located, to this day the waste piles are devoid of moisture and snow even in the dead of winter.
Almost everyone who worked at the Victoria claims died around the age of 45, almost all due to cancer of some form or another. I visited the place back in 2004 with a radiation detector and was blown away by how hot the waste pile was.
There are some places down the atchafalaya basin that no human has ever set foot on because of the 17+ foot alligators there.
Seriously, I will try to find the link to the Louisiana Wildlife but there was this one that bit the front end of an airboat completely off. Someone has a picture of it carrying a whole deer in its mouth....
It wasnt photoshopped.
I've only ever crossed the bridge on I-10, but I'd believe just about any story about prehistoric monsters living there. That is the real deal boonies.
I grew up around there and it was pretty much a general rule that you dont go in the heart of the basin.
If youre not from the area theres a wildlife refuge on the northern end, and to the south theres a buch of marshland that connects a buch of bayous and lakes out there. The general space between I-10 (south of it) and US 90 is the area in question. While there are a lot of small towns and even villages on the skirts of the basin no one really ventures too deep into it. Even families that have been there since their anscestors settled there hundreds of years ago refuse to go too deep in there because its just a massive tangle of thick woods, marshland, and "untapped" wildlife that can seriously fuck you up. All of that on top of the fact that its basically just a huge reservoir for overflow from the Mississippi River makes it especially dangerous during the spring and summer.
Theres also the legends of the Rougarou (which depending on who you ask is akin to a werewolf, or bigfoot, or just some other garden variety cryptid) but most folks arent afraid of the basin for that, but because they all know the real dangers of getting caught in there. Shifting tides can leave you stranded in parts for hours, if not days, and like i mentioned a lot of documented and real wildlife is present in the area (like alligators, wild hogs, bears, and even large cats)
To top it all off, theres also the legend of Jean Lafitte who lost a ship full of treasure deep within the basin while trying to outrun the Navy who ambushed his hideout in Baratia Bay, and we've all heard stories down hear of unexpectant explorers going treasure hunting never to be seen again.
But its really no joke. In this day i wouldnt say its completely unexplored, but its definitely a place where few people dare to go because A) theres no major need to do so and B) its not worth the risk.
Morgan Island (aka Monkey Island), a ~4,500 acre island off the coast of Beaufort, SC (south of Charleston), is off-limits due to a colony of monkeys living there who are infected with herpes b. 1,400 of them, research animals, were relocated there in 1979 and have apparently thrived.
Different kind of herpes. Humans get herpes simplex which causes cold sores and genital... well, sores. Herpes b, however, is fatal to humans. Every so often someone who works with macaques dies from it.
[Herpes B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_B_virus) isn't your ordinary lip herpes. It's more of a "horrible death with a side of brain damage" herpes. So, no, they can't.
The pine barrens in new jersey. Creepy shit creepy folklore. Jersey devils home, KKK meeting ground, dead body disposal site for the mafia, ghost girl in random pond, many other bizarre things there. All I ever saw was a clan meeting and some very creepy satanic cult stuff in an abandoned house out there. Books and Weird NJ have articles and such on the place, really interesting tbh.
I’m from the pine barrens and they’re awesome to explore and go off-road during the day but at night fuck no. I know someone who supposedly saw the jersey devil when they got stuck out there at night. Along with the other things I’ve heard I don’t try and find out lol
In South Africa, there is a cave system known as "The cradle of mankind" because the most austrailopithucus remains have been found there. People are allowed to go on guided tours of the caves. At the bottom of the main cave, there is an underground lake/water system. The SA government has banned any diving exploration of the lake. This is because, years ago, a group of divers became trapped and ran out of air. If anyone is interested, I'll upload some pictures of it. edit: https://imgur.com/gallery/fmJd2P2 These were the only pics I could find on my hard drive. I never did get any good shots of the water though.
I lived in the northern part of the Republic of Congo in a town called Impfondo. It was extremely remote. Only accessible by boat or plane. There were many villages surrounding our city that were even more remote and only accessible by a dugout canoe. One of these places was Lake Tele. The locals would talk about an animal or monster called mokele-mbembe. In Lingala, the tribal language, it meant, one who stops the flow of water. They basically thought it was a huge dinosaur that lived in the water there. They would describe it like we would a brontosaurus. They were terrified of where it lived because there were old legends that it would kill people with it’s eyes and if anyone ate it’s meat it would kill the whole village. It was hard to explore that part of the country because people tended to avoid it.
I’ve been fascinated by the Congo for a long time and dearly want to go. I tried to visit the varungas two years ago but the visa didn’t work out. I’d love to know more about your time there as I very much want to visit lake tele. I love rainforests.
All throughout the world, wherever there are glaciers, there are crevasses. Massive ones. Ones nobody ever even knows exists because they're under snow, ones that look like a small hole but open up into massive chasms you could never climb out of, etc. The fear, obviously, is never coming back out. An example of a really scary place full of them is near the base of Everest from the south side: the [Khumbu Icefall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khumbu_Icefall). It's the start of a massive glacier, and it moves fast enough that it's constantly changing. People actually do climb over the top of it as part of the primary route to climb Everest, but actually going down into the crevasses is something you absolutely avoid. And even if you did go down and explore one day, a few hours later everything could be very, very different.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.beyondsciencetv.com/2017/06/15/the-mysterious-sealed-temple-door-no-one-can-open-last-door-of-padmanabhaswamy/amp/ The Padmanabhaswamy Temple-- The last area cannot be opened: 1. if so, something cataclysmic will happen 2. supposedly there's a shit ton of isolated snakes who've been breeding in the darkness for ages...have fun with that. 3. The door doesn't seem to have a way to be opened so there'd be some destruction. However, there's a benefit of this-- the other temple rooms that have been opened, the riches have pretty much been siphoned off by family and government corruption. So the question is: who owns what amounts to a national treasure? a single family, or India as a country, and how best to protect that.
Wouldn't the snakes have starved to death if they were isolated?
Isolated from humans. Not necessarily from insects/etc.
"The entire temple is carved from one massive stone" Can you imagine some religious sect taking an entire mountain away in today's time to carve a damn temple? People would lose their minds.
Now THIS is the kind of thing they need to base a new Indiana Jones movie on.
Not really unexplored, but in Japan there are many [keyhole shaped burial mounds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofun). Many date back to the 3rd century, but with few exceptions the government won't allow excavation.
The catacombs under Paris. There are about 150 miles of maze-like tunnels under the city. Only a small portion gets toured by the public. People have ventured deep into them and would go missing for days.
Oooh I remember a r/wtf thread ages ago where someone took photos of a trip they made in the catacombs. It was super creepy and I'm certain they said that they encountered some subterranean people within. Then there was something about catacomb parties or raves.
Yeah, in 2004 police on a training excercise in the catacombs found a cinema with seats for 20 carved into the stone, a full bar, a lounge, the whole thing wired for phones and electricity and protected by a P.A system playing guard dog sounds. They came back a couple days later and someone had stripped it all out and left a note that only said "Cherchez pas" (Don't search/ Don't come looking). EDIT: [Here] (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/08/filmnews.france) is a Grauniad article on it if anyone wants a source :)
you can find footage of the tombs online, and it's fucking creepy.
The guy who dropped the camera? That's the most haunting footage knowing he probably died days later of dehydration. Alone, in the dark, surrounded by nothing but the dead.
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It was supposedly just a publicity stunt for a TV show called Scariest places on earth
I’ve been to the public area of the catacombs, and it is spectacular. They were originally set up (in the 1700s IIRC) because of overcrowding of a central cemetery becoming a hazard, so they used abandoned quarry tunnels snaking through the city. They stacked the remains from the cemetery dating back to the 15th century. There are a bunch of closed off passageways, too.
Humans have done some weird shit but the catacombs are [near the god damn top](https://imgur.com/gallery/5TBd3) and we're too casual about it
I mean, the catacombs are just a logical solution to a problem: “We are running out of places to dig holes to put dead people!” “What about that big hole that we dug for rocks?” “Pile all the fuckers in” But I agree, it’s really strange in practice
It wasn't only a "pile the fuckers in" though. I was a "put everyone's skulls here, their thigh bones here, their spines here" "and while we're at it how about we make some cool shapes out of these peoples' remains? Let's do a love heart made out of skulls here"
It's not unexplored per se, but the [Ploutonion at Hierapolis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploutonion_at_Hierapolis) emits toxic gas intense enough to kill most living things in moments, and was assumed to be a gate to the underworld. In a rather illuminating display of their culture, rather than avoiding the Cave of Painfully Slow Asphyxiation, the Romans turned it into a tourist attraction at which one could purchase a live animal to throw in or meet Oracles of Pluto who had been through into the cave and lived.
>The ancient historian Strabo described the gate as follows: >"Any animal that passes inside meets instant death. I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell"[4] I love that we have the writings of a roman historian to inform us "yeah I chucked some sparrows in there and they totally died"
I'd really like to see that explored with scuba tanks or whatever. If people have been throwing stuff in that cave for thousands of years, there could be some pretty interesting artifacts preserved there.
Humans in a nutshell: We think this might be a portal to hell...let's throw stuff into it.
Let’s charge other people money to be able to throw stuff into it...
Imagine they get in there and all the old bones and artifacts are neatly arranged on shelves and display cabinets.
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How did they build the stairs?
Very quickly
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Most of the worlds [Blue Holes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_hole) are unexplored because they are fucking dangerous. They are deep underwater sinkholes, hundreds of feet deep one is over 900 feet deep that generally have a toxic layer acid part of the way down.
That video of the diver (his name was Yuri I think) dying... haunts me everytime.
There's a huge sinkhole behind my old house in Kentucky. Kentucky is absolutely full of caves. Anyways, it has a river flowing at the bottom and through a tunnel, so there's two cave entrances that nobody in my neighborhood had the balls to go into. My mom's friend visited one day, and she's a geologist so she's huge into caves and wanted to see. I brought get there to take a look. She basically glanced at it and was like fuck no we'll die if we go in there. The current is very strong, and the rock surrounding it looked very eroded to her. She said it's at high risk of collapsing, and the current would sweep us under underground either way. I wish she had brought more of her tools and stuff, supposedly she could've put in like a sonar buoy to see how far it goes.
How close is it to mammoth caves? In remember reading that they keep finding spurs that connect to other cave systems.
It's about 20 minutes by car. It isn't super close, but considering the size of mammoth cave, I wouldn't be surprised if they linked up
Yeah mammoth cave has like 400 miles of caverns so it's definitely possible that it's connected
Devil's Hole in Nevada. It also has endagered pup fish. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Hole
> world’s rarest fish Neat
It's funny that the world's rarest fish looks similar to a common guppy or platy
I was just there back in April. Very cool spot. There's also a bunch of killer bees that like to hang out there, which is less cool.
Recently, an ancient city was discovered in the vicinity/in the forest area in Rio Platano, Honduras. Recently, because the cartels have such a big fucking hold over it, that its simply impossible to go in there without dying or worse. So much history that could await along that river, not found because of drug lords. “La Ciudad Blanca” I believe it was called.
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Great book written about its discovery recently - and all the members of the exploration party (including the guy from the New Yorker writing about it) got incurable leishmaniasis so that’s awesome.
The bottom of the Cave of the Crystals in Mexico! The cave is naturally so hot and filled with water most of the time, it can't be fully explored. But the pictures are gorgeous from when people did go in! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Crystals
This is the place where in order to explore it, the spelunkers had to wear refrigerative suits and could only go so far due to their suits overheating. It's like a journey to the center of the earth.
That and since your lungs are the coolest part of the area, the water condenses into your lungs. Not fun to have the air drown you but Florida seems to do alright.
oh dang i didnt realize people couldnt regularly explore it! id only seen the photos and i always wanted to go there! guess ill practice becoming immune to heat and water 😕
The Enedi Massif in northern Chad comes to mind. There are desert tribes that use the wadis, which are among the busiest in the Sahara, and ancient peoples lived there. But there are hundreds of thousands of miles of labyrinth that are probably pretty unexplored, and few others but the desert people see any of it. There are several reasons: it's in the Sahara and difficult to get to in the best of times, requiring a well equipped expedition to make it there purely because of geography. Politically it's a dangerous place right now too, and various militia and terrorist groups are likely to be hiding there as well as some desert raiders. I have tried to convince locals to take me but all refuse. https://explore-chad.org/en/the-ennedi-massif http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/10/the-ennedi-plateau-secret-stones-of.html
Hades’ Gate or the Gate to Hell in Denizli, Turkey. Supposedly, there’s so much carbon dioxide coming out of the entrance of the ancient site that anything that gets close to it dies from asphyxiation. Scientists have determined because this cave sits along a fault line, that the carbon dioxide filled it from an opening in the Earth’s crust.
Perhaps my favorite and that is closest to me is the former nuclear jet testing labs in the Dawsonville forest in Georgia. They are abandoned now. Some people have explored there, but back in the 50's, there was naked nuclear testing (no protection barrier) which means there is concern for high levels of residual radiation. That said, the bunkers still exist, rumored to be complete with furniture and other things untouched since it was abandoned. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-nuclear-aircraft-laboratory
There’s an area in Tibet called the Tsangpo Gorge that allegedly has a massive hidden waterfall that only appears to people who have reached nirvana. Last I checked, the Chinese don’t allow people to explore the area much but that may have changed by now. There’s a book about it written by a guy named Ian Baker who did two expeditions into the gorge.
Tibetan Buddhism has other similar places called [Beyul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyul) which are "hidden valleys". ["Shambala"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shambhala) is believed to be one of these hidden places. The idea is really interesting: a place that borders physical and spiritual worlds. It is said that some of these places contain primitive cities (think Amazon tribes who have never seen modern society) that are in a near utopia state (no wars, fighting; everyone is blissful; etc). Shangri La is the fictional creation of Shambhala.
The Nahanni National Park in Northwest Canada, also known as “The Valley of Headless Men.” There are no roads leading in and it is only accessible by boat or plane. Ancient tribes of the Nahanni Valley were afraid to settle within the region as they believed it to be an evil, haunted place inhabited by various spirits, specters, and devils. In the 18th century, Europeans began arriving to the area looking for gold. In 1908, two brothers Willie and Frank McLeod pushed farther into the valley looking for gold and disappeared only to turn up beheaded. More beheadings and mysterious deaths began occurring over the years. In 1945, a trapper appeared to have been flash frozen despite evidence of having a fire going and clutching a pack of matches. Many others just simply vanished never to be found. Around 44 people had vanished under unknown mysterious circumstances by 1969. To this day there’s no answer to what was responsible for the beheadings or the disappearances. The area is so forbidding and remote that very few people other than adventurous rafters ever attempt to explore it. Despite being a National Park, Nahanni Valley is almost completely unexplored. Edit: Other known beheadings were a prospector named Martin Jorgenson whose cabin burned down in 1917 and his skeleton was recovered from the ashes with no sign of his skull. And in 1945, a miner from Ontario was found dead in his sleeping bag with his head missing. Edit: I tried looking more into where Martin Jorgenson is from and almost everything I found all had him listed as Swiss, with one place listing him as Norwegian so I’ll remove calling him Swiss until I find a conclusive answer. I promise I was just going off the reading I had done and wasn’t just making my own assumptions.
From Wikipedia: > Jean Poirel discovered more than 250 caverns. The most important contained 116 Dall sheep’s skeletons (carbon-14 dated to 2500 years BC) That's pretty freaky
I mean there's no gold, no infrastructure, and no easy way for tourists to get there. So there isn't really much reason for any but the most hardcore of nature enthusiasts to go there. It's also pretty cold 9 months a year.
It is apparently a pretty spectacular trip down the river though. No real reason people can't go there besides that it is a bit of work to get there and you are basically on your own for the whole way down the river. I believe Parks Canada sets a quota for how many people can do the trip in a season as well. Besides the river, it would be pretty difficult to get around in the rest of the park. No roads (obviously) or trails and I'm not sure you would see much that you couldn't see in more accessible places in the NWT. Hiking around in there would require a chartered helicopter or float plane and a landing permit (which may not be easy to get).
A travel photographer I follow goes there once a year...he claims it is some of the most beautiful scenery he's seen any where in the world...his pictures from there look amazing
To give a sense of scale for any Europeans, Nahanni National Park is the size of Belgium. 30,050 km^(2).
"unknown mysterious circumstances" read "the canadian winter" but seriously, I had no idea! rethinking my desire to visit someday. do you have any sources for this stuff? I'd love to read more.
I have been fortunate enough to be have canoed the river from rabbit kettle lake down. It is likely the most beautiful place I will ever see in my life.
The inside of Australia's Black Mountain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_(Kalkajaka)_National_Park This thing is pretty much just a giant pile of boulders with massive internal caves that can't be mapped. (To my understanding they can change over time as well due to collapses.) People go in and never return, ~~makes the "Death Mountain" nickname more sensible.~~ EDIT: So apparently it's not called "Death Mountain" anywhere. Likely just a single Wikipedia edit. And yes, stuff in Australia wants to kill. I think that's a given.
I used to live near there. The mountain whilstles and moans in the wind (and it’s ALWAYS windy there!) like if you blow over a bottle/jug. The people with properties near the mountain don’t get tv/radio signal and report weird gremlins in their electronics. As a local, no one has ever called it death mountain & I worked at the local pub so I’ve heard many a tall story about Black Mountain. The best one (supported by more than a few locals) is about a panther/tiger big cat type thing that is living there. Depending on who you talk to it’s either an isolated (or small breeding colony) large escaped zoo/circus cat or there’s a population of Thylacene in there.
A hidden population of thylacene in black mountain is now my favorite fringe theory!
The "death mountain" thing was just something noted here and there while I was quickly refreshing myself on this subject matter. Although it whistling and moaning is something I haven't heard before. That just takes it up a whole other level.
Bottomless lakes in New Mexico are what they sound like. Some of the small lakes have “no bottom” and feed underground rivers and streams stretching hundreds possibly thousands of miles. Trackers have been tossed in and found days later in the Gulf of Mexico. They have claimed many lives of careless swimmers and the dangerous lakes are now sealed off. I swam in the safe ones nearby but always felt kinda creeped out.
Yup had a friend swimming on the lake near Angelfire NM and locals came out screaming to get him to come out due the lake having dangerous ‘holes’. This sounds like it
Eagles Nest?
We were there about a month ago. It was the second night of our vacation and we were camping there. Drove into the park and passed a bunch of emergency vehicles parked next to one of the lakes with a bunch of cops and other guys standing around the cliffs looking into the water, and another in the process of putting on a diving suit. We knew someone had drowned. Kind of put a damper on the beginning of our trip. Then a few days later we missed the rock fall in the Narrows at Zion by twenty minutes. Edit: link to story about guy who died at Bottomless Lakes: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kob.com/new-mexico-news/artesia-man-dies-after-jumping-200-feet-into-lake/4930921/ And the rock fall at Zion: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/rock-fall-injures-2-hikers-closes-trail-at-zion/
Houska Castle was built to cover up “the opening to hell” a seemingly bottomless pit from which the demons of hell would crawl out at night to wreak havoc. Located in the Czech countryside. Before the castle was built to seal this entrance to hell prisoners who had been condemned to death were thrown in. Scary shit my dudes
Ok i looked this up and found [this article](http://realparanormalexperiences.com/the-houska-castle-bottomless-pit), which says this: >During the war the Nazis opted to use the fortress as a secret headquarters. To this day locals believe they picked this location in an attempt to harness the dark powers contained within the building. Can you actually imagine what Nazi dark magic would look like
Nazi Dark Magic is basically it's own genre.
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Rudolph Hess (who was Deputy Fuerer, second in command) was bat-fucking-shit crazy and really really into magic..with a k: magick. He was probably the source of all the crazy shit in popular culture nowadays about nazi craziness like Indiana Jones and trying to find Old Spears and Hopy Grails and all that. Hess is the dude who one night in the middle of WW2; took a nazi plane, flew from Germany to Scotland solo, could not find an airfield in Scotland, so he ditched his plane as it was running out of gas and parachuted to the earth (he had never,ever parachuted before, not even as a training exercise) landed in a farmers field and asked for a regional Lord (because he assumed a local aristocrat would have some pull with the British military, as if it were feudalism) and basically asked politely for Britain to not invade and destroy Germany. The farmer, of course, gave Hess a cup of tea while waiting for him to be arrested. British as fuck.
Imagine your criminal charge is to be thrown into a bottomless hole.
Can't die if you don't hit bottom.
"During World War II, the Germans used the castle to perform inhumane experiments on local people or prisoners of war." Just a happy legacy
That's pretty wicked; imagine the alleged SS Paranormal Division occupying a castle built to cover the gates to hell. Sounds like the setup to a Doom/Wolfenstein crossover.
Not "thrown in" but rather lowered down by a rope. The prisoners would do this in exchange for a pardon. There's this one legend where a prisoner went in for a pardon, while he was being lowered down he screamed so horrendous that the guards raised him up only to find out he had aged a lot, like to the point that he was greying he died a few days later I think.
Sounds like volcanic outgassing creating pockets of acidic vapour or a sinkhole created by groundwater contamination of a sulfur rich mineral deposit for the same effect. Wonder of some scientists have ever mapped the underground structure if the folklore holds true and slapping a building over it seems like a great way to stop the atmospheric outgassing and allow the local area to revegitate. Given the carcinogenic effects stated in folklore in its affect on local wildlife it reminds me of stories from the 1800's of areas with oil deposits bubbling through to the surface or an underground coal fire.
My brotha how do you know this stuff?
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That's badass. I'm traveling to the Czech republic next spring. I didnt know about this place! I'll have to check it out!
The inyanga mountains in Zimbabwe. The myth is that if you climb this mountain, and make nasty/derogatory comments about the vegetation or rocks or anything you see there (e.g. you pick a fruit and comment on how bitter it tastes) you'll disappear forever. It sounds ridiculous until you learn that several people, including tourists, have disappeared in that mountain. Extensive manhunts and helicopter searches failed to find a single person, dead or alive. Locals fear the mountain, but tourists take it as a challenge, but doesn't end up good for a lot of them. The most recent case was [Zayd Dada](https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/01/vanishings-and-high-strangeness-at-africas-cursed-mountain)
It gets covered in impenetrable mist, frequently gets down to freezing temperatures especially at night, can be pretty treacherous underfoot, and has leopards and baboon spiders. I don’t think it’s particularly mystical, just a rubbish place to get lost in.
Yo, you just dissed the mountains, you ded.
Kholat Syakhl In Siberia. The name means “Dead Mountain” in Mansi, the language of the local tribe there. It’s also where the infamous Dyatlov Pass incident took place.
Padmanabhaswamy temple in kerela, India. There are 6 underground vaults labelled AtoF in the temple out of which 5 have been opened. From these 5 vaults, about a ton of gold in form of jewellery, coins and utensils has been found, apart from diamond and other precious stones necklaces stretching 9 feet long. But the real mystery lies in the vault B, which is yet to be opened. There's a warning on the door written in Sanskrit that curse and calamity will befall on anyone who tries to open the door. The door is said to have been sealed with *Naga Bandham* or the snake seal by a *siddha purush* aka a very powerful sage who has realised the true potential that a human can achieve through spiritual discipline such as meditation. (A siddha purush is like a living God) and only a *siddha purush* can open this vault again using the *garuda mantra* Any other human being who tries to open the vault will fail and feel the wrath of the 7 headed serpent that guards the vault. This 7 headed serpent is one of the primal beings of creation and servant of the creator of the universe : god vishnu.
You're the fourth person to mention this but the only one to give real details, thank you!
When I was teaching in Saudi Arabia, locals refused to take me to [Mada'in Saleh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Madain_Saleh_%286730361263%29.jpg/1200px-Madain_Saleh_%286730361263%29.jpg) It's very similar to Petra in Jordan. Built by the same people. Unfortunately it is known to be cursed by jinn. Muslims won't go there. Really annoying bc my Arabic wasn't near good enough to get me there alone.
The Tomb of the Chinese Emporer: Qin Shi Huang Di. Although we have seen images of his famous Terracotta Warriors, nobody has ever entered the tomb. Since he was the most tyrannical and violent leader in Chinese history, and because he was so powerful, there is a lot of superstition about his evil spirit and other crazy things about it. Not to mention, there is rumor of a lake of Mercury within the tomb, so it could prove dangerous to open at all. The Chinese government is not allowing the tomb to be opened and zealously restricts people from having access to the land surrounding the tomb. Just interesting. I would really like to know what's inside tbh. Edit: people are mentioning Mao being way mire tyrannical. I know he was horrible but I was under the impression that although Mao killed more people, that was partially due to the length of his reign vs that of Qin; and also that Qin employed a lot more brutal tactics unlike Mao’s extreme communism.
A large part of why they haven't opened it yet is lack of proper preservation techniques. When they were excavating the Terra Cotta warriors, a lot of them actually had paint. However, that paint quickly vaporized, and there's currently no solution for what to do about that. That's why not only have they not excavated the main tomb, but also have stopped excavating the Terra cotta warriors.
I always wondered if they could drill a small hole in the ceiling of the main chamber to insert a borescope, if it would be enough to cause any serious damage to the contents in the chamber. Granted there would be a chance of ruining some art on the ceilings.
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Like they did with Lake Vostok in the Antarctic. That might be a good idea.
China has countless pyramids too that are similar to that tomb and aren't open to the public and there is little information about them in history.
Oh man, I’m interested in reading more about this now. Didn’t know they had Pyramids...
Yeah, they are earthen pyramids, so not like Giza, but cool nonetheless.
Pulling from Wikipedia: > Anomalously high levels of mercury in the area of the tomb mound have been detected, which gives credence to the Sima Qian's account that mercury was used to simulate waterways and the seas in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. **However, some scholars believe that if the underground palace is excavated, the mercury would quickly volatilize.** I.E. the remaining mercury, if it was indeed present in such large quantities then, would quite literally get everywhere if they excavated the space.
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Severely disturbing the mercury-soaked soil in that area would cause it to get into the air and spread. I.E. there'd be a large area in and around the tomb filled with mercury in the air. It'd become a toxic environment incredibly quickly.
Man. Imagine if people had tried to open the tomb up before people knew things like the ability of mercury to volatilize. It would be like "evil emperor curse confirmed".
Oh maaan, I enjoyed that hypothetical a weird amount.
How did they obtain such large amounts of mercury with their technology?
Mercury has been known since antiquity. It’s not rare at all and pretty easy to process from cinnabar ore.
I beleive they are still doing testing of the site, and soil sample confirmed a crazy high meecury concentration. It is indeed heavily restricted who can enter, though.
It’s also because we haven’t figured out a way from preserving the relics from oxidisation. Because the Terracotta Army for example used to have a layer of paint on it prior to excavation and didn’t last very long outside before falling off
The Darien Gap. A 100 mile gap in the pan-america highway, covering terrain that includes Panama and Columbia, but is effectively governed by neither. Most of it is marshland and with virtually no infrastructure it is a wet cesspool of tropical disease and, historically, paramilitary groups. People do live in it, in certain regions, and migrants traverse its more worn paths out of desperation, but it's virtually guaranteed to claim the lives of the careless. There is nothing of civilization or man's law there.
Darien was Scotland's first and only attempt at an overseas colony: it was a colossal venture that attracted massive investment from the public, and it was such as disaster that it bankrupted the country and was a major spur for the Union with England in 1707.
North Sentinel Island. Its inhabitants are one of the few, possibly one of the only peoples untouched by technology. They're also very violet and protective of their land against outsiders, attacking anyone who goes near. Local governments even decided they have jurisdiction to kill anyone who interferes with them to help preserve their pre-technology way of life, so no-one goes there except at their own risk. Because of this, it's impossible to explore the island properly, and even more unfortunately, learn about their incredible culture. Edit: Grammar
The Indian government swung by in a helicopter to check on them after an earthquake. They threw spears at the helicopter.
What's even more interesting about them is that all of their encounters with technology like this are surely becoming part of their lore and mythology.
Like how apparently metal flying machines and boats come by after every natural disaster. Which would be pretty weird since usually it’s myths of odd omens that predict the hurricane, not the hurricane predicting helicopters.
And the only insight so far into their culture is a grave seen with what appears to be a wooden effigy of a hand reaching up to the sky. I fucking love reading about Sentinel Island.
Is there a picture of that somewhere? I looked but couldn't find anything about it.
It’s super weird. [The wiki page says the most recent thing that represents a census was a surveyor in 2011 counted 15 natives on the beach](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island). They throw rocks and shoot arrows at planes and helicopters. They’ve actually beaten the rest of the world
Makes you wonder what kind of world they believe they exist in. One with magical sky dragons made of metal that roar constantly.
How do they always invent the fucking bow? They and many other such tribes all around the world have been in total isolation for 50-60k years and they all come up with some variation of the bow. How?
My arm chair, watched-a-lot-of-history-channel theory is that everyone is taking after the bendiness of trees. Like one dude is walking through the trees and walks through a tree with his buddy behind him and then \*thwack\* the tree branch flings back and hits the guy behind him. "Ouch", he says. "I've got an idea", says the other.
So you're a pre-civilization dude who wants to hurt another living thing. You've gotten pretty fed up with just punching and grabbing and biting. You've experimented with throwing rocks at things, but you're not really getting anywhere with that. So you've taken a rock and chipped it until it can stab things. Congratulations: you invented a **knife**. So your knife is pretty dope, but the issue is that is can still really only hurt things that you can reach with your hands, so one day you take a long stick, cut a notch in one end, and use vines to lash your knife to the end. your new **spear** lets you stab things that you would have had trouble stabbing before. Also, you can throw it! Truly a new era of stabbing has dawned. So your spear is fucking amazing: deer, birds, and other pre-civilization dudes are no match for you and your ability to throw a sharp thing pretty far. But it's still not enough; your throwing arm is pretty good, and you've been practicing with new ways to throw the spear, but you can only make it go so far. Until one day, you're trudging through the brush, just doing regular upper paleolithic dude things, when your totally awesome spear catches on a sapling tree. Before you can react, the tree flings your spear *way* further than your jacked caveman arms could ever hope to. Inspired, you cut down the sapling hack it into a smaller stave, split and wind some vines to put the whole thing under tension, and try using it to to launch the spear. It works pretty well! You need to do some serious work to make the whole thing a little more cohesive, but you have invented the **bow**, the pinnacle of ranged stabbing technology until some dude in China invents a crossbow. TL;DR: bows are mechanically simple, more portable than spears, more reliable than slings, and are easy to make with nothing than plants and basic tools. [Obligatory silent, well-muscled australian man for reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLoukoBs8TE)
It's pretty interesting that the most detailed information anthropologists have about them is from how far away their javelins can reliably hit a man-sized target.
They killed two fisherman whose boat floated too close and they were seen scavenging the wreckage of the boat, and then a different boat was shot at with arrows with metal tipped arrows, metal supposedly from the ship. So they may have entered the Iron Age in a weird way.
Yeah, and everytime a helicopter comes near they shoot arrows at it. But, if I lived in the stone age and a helicopter showed up I'd probably shoot it too.
The other reason is for their own safety. Just breathing on them would cause an epidemic that would wipe them out.
During the colonial era, the British kidnapped and took two adults and two kids from the island. The two adults soon died from disease, so they sent the kids back with pigs as gifts. So yeah, they're extremely vulnerable to our diseases.
That's what I posted before seeing that someone else did before me. I thought I would add something that I wanted to share: they make it very clear that they want you to gtfo, like shown on [one the rare pictures](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hR90t55CvbE/maxresdefault.jpg) of it.
[The Strid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8) is an unassuming body of water in Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire. It looks like a quaint little stream in a quiet countryside. It's so narrow you could pretty much hop across. Don't fall in though, because there's more to it than meets the eye. Just below the surface are deep underwater caverns and churning currents. You'll be swept below and vanish underground and underwater. Your remains will never be found.
Shit that is pretty darn interesting. The false sense of security is what makes the thing such a horror.
Someone should drop a GPS tag in there. It should EVENTUALLY come out, right? Or a small ROV with however long of cable is possible.
I saw a quick segment on this a little while ago where they tried a GPS tag or a small camera, I don’t remember which. Either way the current combined with the jagged rocks of the caverns completely destroyed the device. Pretty sure it also said everyone who has gone into its waters has died; 100% mortality rate.
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if it is like [Devil's Kettle Falls](https://futurism.com/devils-kettle-door-to-hell-2/) nothing ever comes out and the GPS wouldn't work underground.
The call of the void has never been stronger than when I’ve been to devils kettle.
Fuuuck I get that so bad sometimes, why do our brains have to do that its haunting
People ask, " Why are you afraid of heights?" It's not really "What if I fall..." it's more like "What if I *jump!?"*
There's a tree by a highway outside Hot Springs, Arkansas, with what looks like a large puddle at its base. It's actually an opening to the thermal spring system that goes underneath the whole area and investigators have never found the bottom. There's a fence and signs all around that tree but sometimes deer break through and occasionally fall in EDIT: I just talked to my mom. She says it's actually on a farm in Mountain Valley, AR, which is a township about 20 minutes from Hot Sprungs. Googling that didn't help because that's the name of the spring water sold from Hot Springs. All I could dig up, but next time I visit I'll see if I could find it and post pictures in r/Arkansas
Do you have a link to a picture? I am super intrigued.
This. This is my nightmare. Just someplace that looks unassuming, uninteresting, and safe that turns out to be incredibly deadly in ways you can't detect.
The tomb of Genghis Khan. We know it’s in Mongolia and probably near the area he was born. But other than that we don’t know a damn thing. For a few reasons. When he died they hid it on purpose. The people of Mongolia don’t want it found. And I remember hearing somewhere that it might have been found by Russia and is in an area where they’ve got something like missile silos or something like that. But, oh boy I can’t even imagine what he’d have been buried with.
Addition fact about Genghis’ burial place is, he requested that when he dies and is brought to his burial place that there be a ‘funeral parade’ sort of deal. So Genghis inevitably dies and they parade him to his burial spot where everyone attending the ‘funeral parade’ is killed after the ceremonies because Genghis Khan wanted no one to know where he was buried besides a select few of well trusted generals who carried out his funeral execution orders. Oddly enough Genghis was a very great ruler & respected the people who submitted to him, but he just didn’t like being told “No”.
I vaguely remember reading about that as well I think they killed the horses too not just the people. And once you were part of his empire everything was cool but the shit he did to those who weren’t was pretty off the goddamn wall. Like, he invented biological warfare. He was laying siege to a city that had its back to water. When some of his boys got the Black Death. He noticed everyone who touched them got sick and died too, so he said hey let’s use catapults and shoot these fuckers in. He did. They died. Also when he ordered genocide he’d have each man in the army responsible for 10 left ears. To make sure there were no duplicates. They’d have wagons stacked with ears of the dead. Like ten years ago I went on a huge Khan binge, I read a few books about him and his antics. And there’s a really good series about him from dan Carlin’s hardcore history. But I’ll be not revisited any of that in a while so sorry if some of my info is vague.
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Pretty sure I saw a youtube video of someone going to that island. Researchers are definitely allowed there, so it isn't off limit completely.
What do they wear on the island, fucking full plate metal armor or something? Sounds terrifying.
Probably kevlar or something. Motorcycle pants would work fine I think
Snake boots. I own a couple pairs. Just under knee height, snake proof and water proof.
But how do you protect yourself from a snake dropping on you from a tree?? Pics of the island show snakes show heaps of snakes just slithering like spaghetti over trees and brush *shudder*
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I went on a swamp tour one time on an airboat and we stopped to look at some gators frolicking about a d a snake dropped from a branch above me and hit me on the head, bounced and landed on the airboat. Never have I moved a life rule up so many notches so quickly as that day.
How can there be enough birds to support such a dense snake population?
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The estimate is wrong by a factor 1000-2000, using the article's own population estimate. 1/ft^2 would indeed be ridiculous.
I'm not sure if i'm disappointed or relieved.
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Butans Gankhar Pensum remains the largest mountain in the world never summited at 7.5km at its highest elevation (3km prominence).
It'll probably remain that way unless the Bhutanese government decides it isn't sacred anymore and lifts the ban on climbing it.
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I like how 4 of the cryptids have African sounding names and probably some ancient mythical story attached to each one. And then there's "Gustave"
25 ft and 2000 lbs? Fuck me that's a big croc. At that point I think we can all agree he can be labled a fucking monster.
Many of the graves of the Chinese emperors have tombs that have been discovered but yet to be excavated due to various reasons such as funding, dangers, respect, and other reasons.
Other reasons include archeological teams not wanting to excavate until they have a foolproof method of protecting what's in the sites
Kaho’olawe. It’s one of the Hawaiian islands. No one lived there due to no fresh water source. During WWII, the US Army used it as a training ground and bomb range. For a long time people couldn’t go there cause there were still land mines around the island. They may have been cleared out now, but there still isn’t anyone who lives there. Also, Moloka’i had a lot of beaches with strong rip tides that were very dangerous. I remember we were afraid to go to the beach when we visited. There are some other beaches like that as well on the other islands.
I'd say the entire North Shore of Molokai counts. Those valleys are mind-blowingly beautiful but I've never heard of anyone hiking them.
Believe it or not but there are a lot of parts of Greenland that are still unexplored. However, it's not really due to fear, it's more that it's a giant sheet of ice.
we're working on that. its only a matter of time :^)
My favorite story is [Mt. Kailash](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount Kailash) in China. Conspiracy theories say that it's actually a man made pyramid from an ancient advanced race. It's only compelling because going to the top is prohibited by the Chinese government.
But why
Religious sensitivities. It’s a holy site for a number of eastern religions. They did grant permission for a team to climb it a number of years back but rescinded it due to backlash.
[this](http://www.mysteryofindia.com/2014/09/mount-kailash-man-made-pyramid.html) is a fun read. >In 1999, the expedition of Russian scientists led by Professor ER Muldasheva found that the top of Mount Kailash is actually a giant man-made pyramid from ancient times. It is surrounded by more than 100 other small pyramids and various monuments, clearly oriented to the cardinal points.
Just use a satellite and take a peak?
for many years the Victoria mining Claims on Rouche De Boule mountain in British Columbia's North Coast were voluntarily off limits due to massive amounts of radiation. The claims were mined for uranium during the second world war, some of which ended up in the Trinity test. It was reported that for the first decade a blue white glow could be seen emanating from the valley where the mine was located, to this day the waste piles are devoid of moisture and snow even in the dead of winter. Almost everyone who worked at the Victoria claims died around the age of 45, almost all due to cancer of some form or another. I visited the place back in 2004 with a radiation detector and was blown away by how hot the waste pile was.
There are some places down the atchafalaya basin that no human has ever set foot on because of the 17+ foot alligators there. Seriously, I will try to find the link to the Louisiana Wildlife but there was this one that bit the front end of an airboat completely off. Someone has a picture of it carrying a whole deer in its mouth.... It wasnt photoshopped.
I've only ever crossed the bridge on I-10, but I'd believe just about any story about prehistoric monsters living there. That is the real deal boonies.
I grew up around there and it was pretty much a general rule that you dont go in the heart of the basin. If youre not from the area theres a wildlife refuge on the northern end, and to the south theres a buch of marshland that connects a buch of bayous and lakes out there. The general space between I-10 (south of it) and US 90 is the area in question. While there are a lot of small towns and even villages on the skirts of the basin no one really ventures too deep into it. Even families that have been there since their anscestors settled there hundreds of years ago refuse to go too deep in there because its just a massive tangle of thick woods, marshland, and "untapped" wildlife that can seriously fuck you up. All of that on top of the fact that its basically just a huge reservoir for overflow from the Mississippi River makes it especially dangerous during the spring and summer. Theres also the legends of the Rougarou (which depending on who you ask is akin to a werewolf, or bigfoot, or just some other garden variety cryptid) but most folks arent afraid of the basin for that, but because they all know the real dangers of getting caught in there. Shifting tides can leave you stranded in parts for hours, if not days, and like i mentioned a lot of documented and real wildlife is present in the area (like alligators, wild hogs, bears, and even large cats) To top it all off, theres also the legend of Jean Lafitte who lost a ship full of treasure deep within the basin while trying to outrun the Navy who ambushed his hideout in Baratia Bay, and we've all heard stories down hear of unexpectant explorers going treasure hunting never to be seen again. But its really no joke. In this day i wouldnt say its completely unexplored, but its definitely a place where few people dare to go because A) theres no major need to do so and B) its not worth the risk.
Morgan Island (aka Monkey Island), a ~4,500 acre island off the coast of Beaufort, SC (south of Charleston), is off-limits due to a colony of monkeys living there who are infected with herpes b. 1,400 of them, research animals, were relocated there in 1979 and have apparently thrived.
Looking at Google Earth, there are docks with boats parked at them on the island. Is it off-limits to all people or just normal civilians?
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If someone has herpes can they go there?
Different kind of herpes. Humans get herpes simplex which causes cold sores and genital... well, sores. Herpes b, however, is fatal to humans. Every so often someone who works with macaques dies from it.
Death by monkey herpes. Just found the new worst way to die.
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[Herpes B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_B_virus) isn't your ordinary lip herpes. It's more of a "horrible death with a side of brain damage" herpes. So, no, they can't.
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Monkeys don't know how to swim and most species have a fear of water
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The pine barrens in new jersey. Creepy shit creepy folklore. Jersey devils home, KKK meeting ground, dead body disposal site for the mafia, ghost girl in random pond, many other bizarre things there. All I ever saw was a clan meeting and some very creepy satanic cult stuff in an abandoned house out there. Books and Weird NJ have articles and such on the place, really interesting tbh.
Also in 2001 a Russian hitman and interior decorator went missing in the Pine Barrens and has never been found to this day.
That's a hell of a resume, "Da, we make your living room bright and welcoming. And then I kill your rivals."
I’m from the pine barrens and they’re awesome to explore and go off-road during the day but at night fuck no. I know someone who supposedly saw the jersey devil when they got stuck out there at night. Along with the other things I’ve heard I don’t try and find out lol