Tag: unusual facts
The facts behind Mystery Spot.
The Mystery Spot is a tourist attraction near Santa Cruz, California, opened in 1939 by George Prather.
Why Magnetic Hill still gets people talking.
The Magnetic Hill is a Canadian gravity hill, a type of optical illusion created by rising and descending terrain.
Giant desert drawings were made long before airplanes.
The Nazca Lines are huge geoglyphs in Peru that are best seen from above and still invite debate about their purpose.
The surprising truth about Atacama Giant.
The Atacama Giant is an anthropomorphic geoglyph on the Cerro Unita area of the Atacama Desert, Chile.
The real story behind Uffington White Horse.
The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m (360 ft) long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.
What people get wrong about Blythe Intaglios.
The Blythe Intaglios or Blythe Geoglyphs are a group of gigantic figures incised on the ground near Blythe, California, United States, in the Colorado Desert.
The facts behind Georgia Guidestones.
The Georgia Guidestones was a granite monument that stood in Elbert County, Georgia, United States, from 1980 to 2022.
The surprising truth about Kryptos.
Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in…
The surprising truth about Beale ciphers.
The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold, silver and jewels estimated to be…
The facts behind Somerton Man.
The Somerton Man is an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.