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Also known as Coral Castle, this is a man-made complex of megalithic structures. It took Edward Leedskalnin 28 years to build it but he never revealed the secret how he managed to move such massive stones.
According to Coral Castle's website, "If anyone ever questioned Ed about how he moved the blocks of coral, Ed would only reply that he understood the laws of weight and leverage well." He also stated that he had "discovered the secrets of the pyramids".

"The most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age".

This name was given to an anonymous project posting coded messages and assignments on the web since 2012 and running for three years.
It is believed, among other theories, to be a NSA or CIA search for decipherers and code breakers. It can just as well be a group of hackers, looking for new members.
No ultimate outcome of the whole project has been revealed to the public yet.

A Japanese legend about a "hollow ship" ("utsuro-bune" in Japanese) encountered by fishermen by the shore and carrying an amazingly beautiful young woman inside. The same story with small alternations is repeated by three historical texts. The woman could not speak any understandable language, so she was unable to tell about her origin. Same with the symbols on the strange vessel that brought her ashore - no one could tell their meaning. She was carrying a box with her, not allowing anyone to touch it. As the legend says, the fishermen returned the odd boat with the woman inside to the sea and let it drift away.

First report of a car damaged by a strange animal dates back to June 14, 1988. Two weeks later another report took place. This time it was personal encounter with a creature 7-feet tall, having green (or grey) scaly skin, three toes and three fingers. Later evidence add a tail to the description and an incredible strength capable of ripping a car. Other instances of spotting a lizard-like creature in vicinity of Bishopville swamps followed within a month after the first encounter. The three-toed footprints taken by the local police department could not be classified as belonging to any known animal.
All this resulted in a large number of tourists and hunters arriving to the swamps in a pursue to see or hunt down this creature. But after a nearby radio station offered a $1 million reward for this creature caught alive, reports on the creature started to decline. Conclusions to be made.

Аlso known as the South Atlantic Flash - it is a "double flash", typical of nuclear tests, registered by an American Vela satellite near the coast of Antarctica on September 22, 1979. No country has confirmed its accociation with this explosion, though some experts are positive it was a joint South African–Israeli nuclear test. Further scientific examinations of all available evidence suggested that the "double flash" signal was a spurious 'zoo' signal of unknown origin, possibly caused by the impact of a micrometeoroid

This is a surgical operation mainly with the purpose of making a hole in the head. It can be performed with an auger or a scraper. Sometimes parts of soft tissue and bones are cut away from the skull before the operation and then put back to cover the hole. There are certain evidence that ancient people were familiar with this procedure already in neolithic age. They believed it could help the patient get rid of evil spirits hiding in his skull. Surprisingly, most of them survived the operation, though some became scatterbrained.
Today it is mostly used to for post-traumatic brain decompression or to access brain for treating intracranial diseases.
In Tibet monks do it to open the "third-eye" trying to obtain clairvoyance. Sometimes with lethal outcome.

On July 9, 1958 an earthquake of extreme intensity at the entrance of Gilbert Inlet of Lithuya Bay, Alaska, caused a rockfall and landslide that created a wave 30m high. It also resulted in destruction as high as 520 m above the surface of the bay as its momentum carried it upslope.
The impact was heard 80 km away.
Two of three boats anchored in the bay survived the wave. One of these two stayed afloat and the other,operated by Bill and Vivian Swanson, sunk after crash landing from the wave but the couple made it to a small skiff and was found by a rescue vessel.
This megatsunami is the most significant and the largest of all known in modern times.

Two scientists dead, numerous people exposed to radiation - that's the result of two scientists playing with a nuclear bomb that remained unused after Japan's surrender in World War II.
Playing with fire leaves burns, while radiation destroys human DNA and causes mutation.
Both scientists received a lethal dose of radiation by accidentally making the plutonium-gallium sphere supercitical, causing a self-sustaining critical chain reaction.
After these incidents the hands-on experiments were stopped and further performed from a quarter-mile distance with remote-controlled machines and cameras.

Messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in USA and South America.
Size of a car licence plate they convey some short messages and sometimes political statements. Creator is still unknown, though several guesses have been investigated.

This eruption took place in 1883 on Kararuta island of modern Indonesia. It is one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events in recorded history. Over 36,000 deaths are attributed to the eruption and the tsunamis it created. Most part of Kararuta and some nearby islands went underground and some territory of remaining islands was never repopulated.

This one of the largest recorded non-nuclear explosion happened on April 16, 1947. It was an industrial accident in the Port of Texas City, the deadliest one in the history of U.S.
581 people reported killed and more than 8,485 victims. Caused by a fire on board of a ship docked in the port and resulting in detonation of approximately 2,200 tons of explosive compound cargo. Continued with subsequent fires and explosions in other ships, oil-storage facilities and chemical plants. Damage to the city included destroyed seaport, 1,100 vehicles, 500 houses and many businesses.
The cause of the initial fire was never determined, but it may have been started by a cigarette discarded the day, prior to the explosion.