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For centuries, Antarctica has captured our imaginations. From the historic first explorers of the 1800s to the bold scientists of today, we continue to be captivated by the wonders held within Antarctica's icy plains.
As the world's last unexplored wilderness, Antarctica is shrouded in mystery, and as a land of extremes, it's also great at keeping its secrets.
The harsh conditions, freezing temperatures and barren landscapes make Antarctica inhospitable to humans. The frozen continent is about 1.5 times the size of the United States and 99 percent is covered in ice, making up 90 percent of all the ice on Earth.
Despite this, scientists have forged on, discovering blood red waterfalls, ancient fossils, peculiar natural phenomenons and incredible creatures. They've even managed to discover a world beneath the ice, from salty underground lakes to a huge mountain range hidden below.
We've rounded up 14 of the most fascinating mysteries held within the Great White Continent.

1. Underground lakes
2. Deep Lake
3. Blood Falls
4. Unusual creatures
5. Ancient fossils & rainforests
6. Gamburtsev Mountain Range
7. Singing ice
8. The giant hole
9. Mount Erebus
10. Southern Ocean
11. McMurdo Dry Valleys
12. Antarctic fungi
13. Ancient meteorites
14. Aliens, Nazis & the Lost City

1. UNDERGROUND LAKES
It’s difficult to imagine anything beneath the thick layers of ice in Antarctica, yet scientists have discovered a number of underground lakes.
First uncovered in 1970 with radars, there are estimated to be around 400 lakes sitting under 3 kilometres of ice, in the regions that were explored.
Scientists believe the lakes were formed after the separation of Antarctica from Gondwanaland, the ancient supercontinent. The lakes don't freeze because of the pressure from the weight of the ice sheet.
Lake Vostok, discovered in the 1990s by Russian scientists, is the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica. It’s also the third-largest lake by volume in the world, lying 3.5 kilometres below the ice.
Scientists have since drilled deep holes into the ice to extract a sample of the lake water and one sample showed the water to be around -3ºC, despite being covered by ice over 20 million years ago.
In 2014, scientists had a major breakthrough at Lake Whillans, discovering a diverse and active eco-system of microorganisms in the lake , nearly a kilometre under the ice sheet.
These incredible species haven’t seen fresh air or sunlight for millions of years, yet they flourish, using methane and ammonium as energy to grow.

2. DEEP LAKE
Deep Lake is an inland lake in East Antarctica that has fascinated scientists for years. The lake sits 55 metres below sea level, with water salinity increasing as it gets deeper.
It’s salty waters are comparable to the Dead Sea and are ten times saltier than the ocean. This means the water does not freeze, despite temperatures reaching -20ºC at its deepest point.
The lake is practically inhabitable, with one of the least productive, yet most remarkable ecosystems in the world. Scientists have found four microbe species living in the waters, although it’s dangerous for most other animals.
Some penguins have been spotted swimming the waters, but they can easily die as the lake is much colder than the ocean.

3. BLOOD FALLS
In the McMurdo Dry Valley, a bright crimson, five-storey waterfall pours out of Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. It looks like a gush of blood from a wound in the ice, but scientists have recently discovered the cause behind this mysterious phenomenon.
The water that feeds Blood Falls was once a salty lake that is now cut off from the atmosphere due to the formation of glaciers on top of the lake.
The water is preserved 400 metres underground and has become even saltier over time - it’s now three times saltier than seawater and cannot freeze.
The saltwater is also extremely rich in iron and completely devoid of oxygen and sunlight. As the iron-rich water seeps through a fissure in the glacier and comes into contact with the air, the iron oxidises and rusts, staining the water a dark red colour.
This eerie sight is only accessible by helicopter or cruise ships visiting the Ross Sea.

4. UNUSUAL CREATURES
Antarctica is a barren, icy desert with very little rain, fierce winds, and the coldest temperatures on earth (the coldest recorded temperature was -89.4°C); yet it’s also home to a myriad of unique wildlife.
It was previously thought that nothing could survive beneath the massive ice sheets, however scientists have discovered a number of unusual species that have adapted to the harsh environment.
There are microbes, crustaceans, colossal squid, leggy spiders the size of dinner plates, giant worms with shiny golden bristles and a large, sharp-toothed jaw.
You can even find see-through icefish. These strange creatures have large eyes and their internal organs can be seen through their translucent skin. The fish have antifreeze glycoproteins and cannot survive in warmer waters. They also don’t have any hemoglobin, a protein that makes our blood red.

5. ANCIENT FOSSILS AND RAINFORESTS
Antarctica is an ancient land that has undergone some incredible transformations over millions of years. Before it became a frozen desert after the Ice Age, Antarctica was actually a warm region with rainforests and possibly even civilisations.
The theory developed from the discovery of fossilised wood, signs of tropical trees and leaf impressions that show the existence of rainforests in Antarctica.
Scientists have also found a ton of fossils from marine animals, birds and dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period.
Among the smaller species, they've uncovered the fossilised forewings of a beetle species that lived between 14 and 20 millions years ago in a warmer climate, and tiny single-celled fossils that have been a great source of debate among scientists.
They've also found fifty-million-year old sperm cells on the egg case of a long extinct species of worm, an extraordinary discovery that scientists hope will lead to new evolutionary information.

6. GAMBURTSEV MOUNTAIN RANGE
Antarctica holds many secrets beneath its vast ice sheets - even a massive mountain range.
Hidden below a two to four thousand kilometre thick sheet of ice are the Gamburtsev Mountains. They stretch for 1,200 kilometres and rise to 3,000 metres, a third of the height of Mount Everest.
The mountains were named after Soviet geophysicist Grigoriy A. Gamburtsev, after they were discovered in 1958 by Russian scientists.
The scientists were traveling across Antarctica when they encountered a thin spread of ice and recorded abnormal gravity fluctuations, revealing the incredible wonder below.
Although we’ve never seen the mountains, scientists use radars to see the physical features of the mountains, while gravitational and magnetic readings allow them to study the mountains all the way to their base.
The Gamburtsev’s have long baffled scientists as to how they were formed and why they still exist. As the mountains are around a billion years old, they should have eroded away with the geological passing of time.
There are many theories about how they are still standing, predominantly that their may be a frozen mantle protecting the mountains from erosion.

7. SINGING ICE
A massive slab of ice in Antarctica is singing.
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in Antarctica. It’s several hundred metres thick and covers an area over 500,000 square kilometres - around the size of France.
Scientists have recently discovered that the Ross Ice Shelf sings an eerie melody, caused by the winds blowing across the snow dunes. The winds create surface vibrations and almost non-stop seismic tones.
The vibrations aren’t audible to human ears and scientists use seismic sensors to listen to the mournful tune. The song was discovered by accident, after seismic sensors were installed on the ice shelf to observe other behaviours.
Scientists have since discovered that the song changes in response to the environment, such as melting or storms shifting the snow. They’re now using the song as a tool to monitor the ice shelf in real time, tracking its stability and vulnerability for collapse through the seismic humming.

8. THE GIANT HOLE
A hole the size of Ireland opened in Antarctica in 2017. Known as a polynya, the hole is nothing new - except with a span of 78,000 square kilometres, it’s the largest hole to be observed since the 1970s, and the first one to open in 40 years.
Found in the Weddell Sea of the Southern Ocean, the polynya was formed due to the warmer, saltier water found in the deeper parts of the sea.
The warm water is pushed up by ocean currents, melting the ice on the surface. As the water comes in contact with the cooler surface water, it sinks again, only to be reheated and pushed back to the surface.
Scientists aren’t completely sure why the polynyas are created, but believe it may be marine mammals using the openings to breathe. They’re still working to understand the impacts of these strange, giant holes.

9. MOUNT EREBUS
Despite the freezing conditions, Antarctica is home to a number of volcanoes. There are four volcanoes on Ross Island, although all are inactive except Mount Erebus, which has actually increased in volcanic activity in the last 30 years.
Mount Erebus is an extreme natural wonder, with liquid magma and ancient lava lakes that have been boiling for around 1.3 million years. It’s the world’s southernmost active volcano and Antarctica’s second-highest volcano, towering to 3,800 metres high.
Scientists cannot often visit Mount Erebus due to the remote location and dangerous weather conditions, although a team of scientists managed to climb the volcano in 2013.
They hiked through snow, rocks and glaciers to the peak, where they found organisms living in the heat of the volcano.
They also discovered a number of ice caves with thriving microorganisms in the soil, and it is believed that these extreme creatures are some of the most unique in the world.

10. SOUTHERN OCEAN
The Southern Ocean was named the world’s fifth ocean in 2000. It’s is the fourth largest ocean in the world, surrounding the entire continent of Antarctica.
It plays a major role in driving global ocean circulation and also consists of the southern parts of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. With a maximum depth of about 7,300 metres, it’s nearly twice the size of the United States.
This mysterious ocean may hold the secret to carbon emission absorption. Scientists have found that the Southern Ocean has absorbed 15% of carbon emissions created by humans.
That’s an incredible amount although it won’t last forever, and scientists are working quickly to uncover how this process works.
Those who venture by ship to Antarctica will cruise through the Southern Ocean, witnessing the sheer power of the sea as you look out from the observation decks to catch your first glimpse of the Antarctic Peninsula.

11. MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS
The thought of a desert usually conjures up images of hot, sandy plains, yet Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.
It’s incredibly dry and windy, with as little as 50 mm of rain annually, while 99% of the continent is covered in ice.
In the remaining 1%, you’ll find the McMurdo Dry Valleys, where massive sand dunes reach up to 70 metres high and 200 metres wide. Although you can’t go sand-boarding down these dunes, they are an incredibly important site for researchers.
The Dry Valleys have a similar climate to Mars, and scientists believe the region could hold the secrets to life on other planets. However, the dunes are moving at an alarming rate, migrating at an average of 1.5 metres per year.
Scientists believe this is caused by climate change - as the atmosphere heats up, the ice melts and the dunes slip away. They are currently working quickly to unlock the mysteries of the dunes, before they are gone forever.

12. ANTARCTIC FUNGI
Many microorganisms and extremophiles have been discovered throughout Antarctica, including an endemic species of fungi.
Although fungi typically flourish in warm, wooded regions, this Antarctic fungi survives in the freezing conditions by feasting on the centuries-old wooden huts abandoned by the first explorers.
Another type of fungi has been discovered gorging on the petroleum leaking from fuel containers left by explorers. Scientists are studying these fascinating creatures to see if the fungus could be used to clean up larger oil spills around the world.

13. ANCIENT METEROITES
Antarctica is a goldfield for meteorites. Although meteorites can fall all over the earth, they are easier to find in Antarctica as the cold, dry conditions preserve the rocky fragments.
The dark meteorites are also easier to spot on the stark white surface of the ice and they are almost always extraterrestrial rocks, as few rocks form naturally on the ice sheets of Antarctica.
The East Antarctic is particularly ripe for meteorite findings, as the massive ice sheet has stayed still long enough to have its top layers evaporated by sunlight and strong winds.
This reveals the older ice and huge concentrations of meteorites. There have been more than 20,000 extraterrestrial meteorite samples collected since 1976.
In 2013, a team of Japanese and Belgian scientists discovered the largest meteorite found in East Antarctica in 25 years. The extraterrestrial rock weighed an incredible 18 kilograms.
The team searched for meteorites for 40 days, finding 425 meteorites with a collective weight of 75 kilograms. The discoveries included a piece of the asteroid Vesta and a meteorite from Mars.

14. ALIENS, NAZIS AND THE LOST CITY
Antarctica is a breeding ground for mystery and it’s had its fair share of conspiracy theories over the years.
From elongated skulls and strange pyramids, to alien spaceships, bizarre structures and a giant staircase, many people believe that Antarctica once housed extraterrestrial life (or still does).
Every year, there are dozens of reported UFO sightings, while Google Earth has captured some unusual activity, said to be the work of aliens. It’s a hotspot for alien hunters, so keep your eyes peeled for any bizarre green lights in the sky!
The mystery of Antarctica continues deep below its surface, where no one has gone before. It is said that the Lost City of Atlantis is hidden beneath the kilometres of ice.
The city would have thrived when Antarctica was a warm, tropical region, and would've been buried after the Ice Age froze the continent.
It’s highly possible that a civilisation existed in Antarctica, but it's yet to be proven that the continent is the site of the fabled lost city.
It’s also theorised that the Nazis used underground Antarctica as a secret hideaway and some people believe that Hitler fled there after the war.
Hitler did have a passion for the occult and he was searching for something in Antarctica - the Nazi Germans built a station in Antarctica - however it was abandoned 70 years ago after the crew were poisoned by polar bear meat.
Although the theory has been disproven, it doesn’t stop the speculation on what lies beneath Antarctica’s mysterious surface.
The Great White Continent is the most baffling and unexplained corner on Earth, and despite the dedicated efforts of scientists around the world, we may never know all of its secrets.

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PastorMIsBack:
This.

Yea... but any specific shape of it?

JESUS CHRIST is GOD.

I've been wondering for years what exactly the creature described by GOD in the Book of Job chapter 41 is. Someone said it's a great crocodile. But on making my searches, crocodiles have scutes and not scales, this which we can say does not match the description of the leviathan.

In my findings, it was described to be a monstrous sea serpent, as the Bible also describes that it stays in the sea.

Psalms 104 (KJV)
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²⁴ O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
²⁵ So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
²⁶ There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
²⁷ These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

Now, could it be that them of those days had encounters with this dreadful sea monster that they know what GOD described in Job 41?
And also, the Bible compares the Leviathan to a dreadful enemy that GOD alone can control, punish or kill.

“In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.”
— Isaiah 27:1 (KJV)

For this indeed, makes us realize that this leviathan is a dreadful creature which scares or/and snaps the life out of humans, so GOD asked, if no man could stand before the leviathan, then who can stand before Him?

“None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?”
— Job 41:10 (KJV)

Now, what exactly is the Leviathan?

Mermaids, strange creatures, demons – Things an Old sailor saw at Sea

by November 27, 2019, 1:57 pm
A Nigerian man who had a conversation with an old sailor with about 30 years of experience, and many encounters with mermaids , demons and strange creatures, has narrated what he was told.
The man identified as Yemi on Twitter revealed that the sailor spoke about bizarre occurrences on the sea, with his encounter with a creature that had 6 eyes.

He also spoke on his encounter with mermaids and described how ugly they are, as against the general belief they are beautiful mythical creatures.

Read Below:
People that spend months working on ships on water have the bizarre scariest stories to tell… the wonders in the seas and water is 10x more bizarre compared to land.
Dude started with there are more dead bodies in the water than land, victims of war, illegal travellers etc… sometimes while sailing through they come across floating dead bodies on then middle of night, numbering to 70+ makes him wonder where they came from.

And strange creatures, gigantic sea creatures come out at midnight, more like that is their play time, and there is a gigantic version of every sea creature!
Confirming his take, science admitted to naming just 10% of sea creatures, meaning there are over 90% undiscovered creatures plus he gave a story of coming across a 6 eyed creature that swam above, each eye ball had light.. Lol
Sometimes when they are fast asleep, a particular creature makes a noise louder than 50 loud speakers put together by his description, it’s noise vibrates things on the ship and scatter, the sound moves containers filled with goods..

Further more he explained the average super giant creature is capable of capsizing 3 ships before dawn.. sometimes they feel threatened and attack, plus he said many of the ships underwater were attacked by creatures, explains why most times accidents on water is unexplainable.
He explained God separated land and water for a reason and to a large extent, humans should keep to land, if it was possible for a revolution to happen and giant creatures under seas could breath on land? They will wipe out humans worldwide in a flash.

He furthermore explained the sea dragon he saw.. gigantic creature with the head of a dragon with spikes on it but fish tail, mouth wide enough to swallow 4 humans put together, I digged deeper and realise the only one caught happened in the 1910. The baby version tho.
And to mermaid he confirmed that existed too.. He is a sailor and has been at it for over 30 years, he claimed to have seen a mermaid in 1996, and the pictures of them in movies is laughable, he said mermaid look like humans truly but extremely ugly, at least the one he saw.

Okay… Firstly every story and facts of this thread of the sea is proven real from a sailor of over 30 years with vast experiences both on and in the sea and was seen with the eye and felt too… Some which aren’t scientifically proven cuz they still lack behind.
I’m sure most people don’t know the sea comes in stages like the twilight zone, sunlight, midnight, trench zone etc… but we will get to that later in the thread… but the creatures first which my curiosity was really based on.

Started with an experience he had in 1999, on the sea in the cold weather, he came up•shore to smoke and heard melodies coming from the waters sounds like a dull guitar sound with a mix of sounds of beads clashing. He turned on bright lamp and saw a glimpse of a giant eel.
With limbs, swam just below the ship but was disturbed by the light, he described the eel was a size of 2 sedan cars parked on a row, and it had the eyeball of a human but much bigger and that was his second time seeing it, a creature that is yet to be named or found by science.

And this creature makes a sound in form of a melody, like a melody that serves as a decoy to attract prey or something. not to talk of fishes with 2 heads like siamese twins, 2 heads in one body not a birth defect & a resemblance of a catfish, he said they have caught about 5.
In 2002 a German diver worked with them, dived into the sea and came with shocking facts that the sea has different layers that has effects and powers he felt. There is a depth and layer you dive into and get the sudden urge to sleep.

With the oxygen mask and all.. this layer has an effect on the brain and in a space of 5 secs if you don’t swim above the layer you will doze off. Another layer makes you hallucinate, the diver said he got to that layer and saw his daughter and his late mother, hallucination tho.
Every diver is advised not to get to 3000ft when diving cuz at that point is the midnight zone, the light rays from the sky doesn’t get there.. in there is total darkness and they perceived certain spirits works there, even science confirmed the midnight zone as dangerous.

And till date haven’t confirmed forces that operates there asides the black sea dragon, my friend confirmed they caught one durning industrial fishing process, something of this nature. Only moves in the midnight zone, there are the giant sizes capable of swallowing humans too.
And till date haven't confirmed forces that operates there asides the black sea dragon, my friend confirmed they caught one durning industrial fishing process, something of this nature. Only moves in the midnight zone, there are the giant sizes capable of swallowing humans too.
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— Yemi (@Yemihazan) November 26, 2019

2004 his friend, also a sailor too and a Ghanaian man (now late) mysteriously became dumb after he claimed to have seen a merman (male version of a mermaid). While on a ship, he sailed with a smaller boat for cruise alone in the evening and after about 30mins suddenly screamed.
The workers on the ship set out to rescue him with another boat, he had fainted but they brought him back to the ship. And after reviving he kept telling them he saw a mermaid with beards, looks so much like a man rocked his boat from under and hit him with what he wasn’t sure of.

He kept murmuring this for about 20 mins while the ship crew tried to calm him and in about an hour later he became dumb and suffered partial stroke too. He lost his life in this sickness, which confirmed it to the crew then that truly mermaid exists in both male in female forms.
Just like humans, he said the believe of sailors is God created humans & animals to be on land while humans rule over animals just as he created mermaids and mermen to be in the water to rule over water creatures, and he strongly believes they live in a community just like humans.

And that they dwell in the deepest part of the ocean called the “challenger zone” and 2 scientists that travels in the submarines confirmed this, they are populated too but maybe not as much as humans but they indeed exists but not in the shallow waters.
But also swim up to shore once in a while too, the water is their zone so its understandable…There are Creatures of the sea with complex brains close to humans, live longer too, there are creatures of 600 years old in the sea. E.g the cracken, a giant octopus found the pacific.

An adult cracken is capable of sinking a ship as big as titanic effortlessly with its arms, but this creatures appears once in a while in a glimpse and sometimes looks like a dream, he said his Norway sailor friend saw one and reported but scientists didn’t believe him.
He explained a zone called the abyss zone, the zone before the challenge deep and after the midnight zone.. the abyss zone has it’s own light rays lol, light from the sun doesn’t get there but mysteriously it has it’s light from God knows where, a scientist he worked with.

Confirmed this also, the light Ray’s is greenish in color and very bright it hasn’t been recorded cuz research are still going on it and researchers left this part out when explaining. If you Google abyss zone, it explains it but they left out the explanation of light rays lol
I told us about the zones right?
Now note that every thing of nature on land is also in the seas. Forest, hills, mountains, even trees are all in the seas too, it’s like a replica of nature and in the trench zone is a forest.

In the challenger zone is the mountains and hills as speculated, and it was noted mermaids and mermen dwell in the challenger zone, more like as humans climb hills and mountains for sport on land, high chances are mermaids do the replica in the seas too.
There are plants in water, only difference is the plants on land aren’t that harmful and gigantic but the plants in the seas are, most are gigantic and you can feel them breathe, they swallow fishes too and def swallows man made objects and boats.

In 1994 the brain box of a plane that crashed in the Pacific was obtained from a mini gigantic plant, it had swallowed it but it was retrieved by divers was when they got a proof that plants in waters are swallowed.
More intriguing he told me there are rivers in the sea too.. sounds crazy right? I was confused too till I Google up and marine insight confirmed there are flowing rivers in the sea. Below is a flowing river in the Mexican sea.

More intriguing he told me there are rivers in the sea too.. sounds crazy right? I was confused too till I Google up and marine insight confirmed there are flowing rivers in the sea. Below is a flowing river in the Mexican sea.
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— Yemi (@Yemihazan) November 26, 2019.

This river water ph level and characteristics is different from the sea, after research it was confirmed salty sea water didn’t mix with the river and furthermore they are lakes, lagoons etc.. confirming everything of nature on land is also in the sea.
Let’s go up•shore… he said somewhere in the Indian Ocean they nicknamed a place “no fear zone” because creatures from the sea swims above and they are ready to look at you eyeball to eyeball, more like they let you know this is their zone and you dare not try to harm any.

Any attempt to hurt one of them they will attack you in packs, he said you can almost feel their lifestyle, feels like a community and they look out for each other, local fisherman don’t even bother go fishing in this zone cuz the piranha fishes in this zone can eat thru metals.
And going by statistics, he said there are over 80 planes crashed in the sea and over 100 ships and boats and by estimation over a billion human skeletons.

And the sea monsters have been regulated by some law of nature not to swim beyond a limit, somehow the water pressure suppresses them, which explains why we barely see any sea monster swim in swallow level but only when they die, the water floats up their corpse.
But he confirmed there are sea monsters and many of them.. he said his ship has been hit by one before, just the tail of the monster hit the ship and there was a great turbulence, a cleaner on the ship saw it and told them.. it was 10 times the size of their ship!

https://lailasnews.com/mermaids-strange-creatures-demons-things-an-old-sailor-saw-at-sea/

It's the second sentence.

Well, I've got no comments.

NAIJASTANDARD71:
But why this racism against the black?

They believe once you're black, you're a Nigerian.

See the eye she take dey look you for the last picture…

Depression is real.
Don't keep quiet.
Don't ignore anyone showing signs of it.

Kobojunkie:
ignorance and inability to comprehend that which is communicated remains the bain of the Nigerian society

Exactly what you displayed here with your ignorant comments.
Say no more on this thread. You just showed how immoral you are with your shocking disgusting comment.

Even the GOD of the Bible condemned bestiality, and here you are sounding to approved of it.

I think your moniker is just exactly as you think… kobo junkie.

And he had to collect money for that? People can be gullible though…