10 more unsolved mysteries of the world

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10 More Unsolved Mysteries of

the World 411Comments Share There is no doubt that some of our most popular lists are ones which revolve aroundmystery and intrigue. Fortunately for us all, there is no end to the number of weird and

wonderful mysteries in the world, so we are now able to present our fourth list of unsolvedmysteries. So onwards to the world of the mysterious!

10 The Grooved Spheres

Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metalspheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter,and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of

spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; theother is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who madethem and for what purpose is unknown.

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Beginning in the 1930s, the father of Dr. Javier Cabrera, Cultural Anthropologist for Ica,Peru, discovered many hundreds of ceremonial burial stones in the tombs of the ancientIncas. Dr. Cabrera, carrying on his fathers work, has collected more than 1,100 of theseandesite stones, which are estimated to be between 500 and 1,500 years old and have

become known collectively as the Ica Stones. The stones bear etchings, many of which aresexually graphic (which was common to the culture), some picture idols and others depictsuch practices as open-heart surgery and brain transplants. The most astonishing etchings,however, clearly represent dinosaurs brontosaurs, triceratops (see photo), stegosaurusand pterosaurs. While sceptics consider the Ica Stones a hoax, their authenticity has neither

been proved or disproved.

7 Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica


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Workmen hacking and burning their way through the dense jungle of Costa Rica to clear anarea for banana plantations in the 1930s stumbled upon some incredible objects: dozens ofstone balls, many of which were perfectly spherical. They varied in size from as small as atennis ball to an astonishing 8 feet in diameter and weighing 16 tons! Although the greatstone balls are clearly man-made, it is unknown who made them, for what purpose and,most puzzling, how they achieved such spherical precision.

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Fossils, as we learned in grade school, appear in rocks that were formed many thousands of years ago. Yet there are a number of fossils that just dont make geological or historicalsense. A fossil of a human hand print for example, was found in limestone estimated to be110 million years old. What appears to be a fossilized human finger found in the Canadian

Arctic also dates back 100 to 110 million years ago. And what appears to be the fossil of ahuman footprint, possibly wearing a sandal, was found near Delta, Utah in a shale depositestimated to be 300 million to 600 million years old.

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Humans were not even around 65 million years ago, never mind people who could workmetal. So then how does science explain semi-ovoid metallic tubes dug out of 65-million-

year-old Cretaceous chalk in France? In 1885, a block of coal was broken open to find ametal cube obviously worked by intelligent hands. In 1912, employees at an electric plant

broke apart a large chunk of coal out of which fell an iron pot! A nail was found embeddedin a sandstone block from the Mesozoic Era. And there are many, many more suchanomalies.

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The Ark is considered the greatest of all hidden treasures and its discovery would provideindisputable truth that the Old Testament is hard fact. Its recovery remains the goal of everymodern archaeologist and adventurer. Its purpose was as a container for the tencommandments given on stone tablets by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. According to the

book of Exodus, the Ark is made of shittim wood (similar to acacia) and gold-covered insideand out. It was topped by a mercy seat comprising two cherubs also made of gold. It was

believed to have supernatural powers due to several events, including causing the death of aman, who attempted to steady the Ark as the oxen hauling it stumbled, bringing down the

walls of Jericho in one battle, and showering misfortune on the Philistines after theycaptured it in another. There are several speculations around the final resting place of the

Ark, and whilst it would take a shrewd operator to find it, it would need a brave or evenfoolhardy person to open it!

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Angel Hair is a rare phenomenon that has so far defied explanation. It is made up of silkenthreads that rain down on to the earth, but reach out to touch it and it will almost certainly

vanish before your eyes. It is a world wide phenomenon with the most regular occurrencesfrom North America, New Zealand, Australia, and western Europe. There is no known prooffor what causes this substance, or even what it is made up of. Speculations are that it hascome from Spiders or another type of silk- spinning insect, and even UFOs as it has often

been associated with UFO sightings. Because of its sensitive nature, it has been difficult tocollect, and to analyse as it is subject to contamination from car exhaust fumes, and evenhuman contact, which could skew the chemical results.

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The Piri Reis Map is a famous pre-modern world map created by 16th century Ottoman-Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The map shows part of the western coasts ofEurope and North Africa with reasonable accuracy, and the coast of Brazil is also easilyrecognizable. Various Atlantic islands including the Azores and Canary Islands are depicted,as is the mythical island of Antillia. The map is noteworthy for its depiction of a southernlandmass that some controversially claim is evidence for early awareness of the existence of

Antarctica. Some scholars claim this and other maps support a theory of global exploration by a pre-classical undiscovered civilization. [Source]

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