As the last unexplored wilderness in the world, Antarctica is shrouded in secrets that scientists and researchers are trying to solve. To date, it is known about the 14 most fascinating mysteries of the Great White Continent.

Underground lakes

It is hard to imagine anything under the thick layers of ice in Antarctica, but scientists have discovered several underground lakes.

Scientists believe that the lakes formed after the separation of Antarctica from Gondvanald, an ancient supercontinent. Lakes do not freeze due to ice pressure.

Deep lake

Deep Lake is an inland lake in East Antarctica that has fascinated scientists for years. The lake is 55 meters below sea level, and with increasing depth, the salinity of the water increases. Salt water is comparable to the Dead Sea and ten times more saline than the ocean. This means that the water does not freeze, despite the temperature reaching -20C at the deepest point.

Bloody waterfall

In the McMurdo Dry Valley, a bright crimson five-story waterfall spills from the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonnie. It looks like a rush of blood from a wound in the ice, but scientists have recently discovered the cause of this mysterious phenomenon.

The water that feeds Bloody Falls was once a salt lake, which is now cut off from the atmosphere due to the formation of glaciers on top of the lake.

Unusual creatures

Antarctica is a barren, icy desert with very little rain, strong winds and the coldest temperatures on earth (the coldest recorded temperature was -89.4 ° C); yet it is also home to many unique wildlife. There are microbes, crustaceans, giant squids, transparent icefish, long-legged spiders the size of dinner plates, giant worms with shiny golden bristles and a large jaw with sharp teeth.

Ancient fossils and rainforests

Antarctica is an ancient land that has undergone some incredible transformations over millions of years. Before Antarctica became an icy desert after the ice age, it was actually a warm region with rainforests and possibly even civilizations. The theory arose from the discovery of a petrified tree, signs of tropical trees and leaf prints that show the existence of tropical forests in Antarctica. Scientists have also discovered a ton of fossils of marine animals, birds and Cretaceous dinosaurs.

Gamburtsev mountain range

Antarctica holds many secrets under its vast ice sheets – even a massive mountain range. Gamburtsev mountains are hidden under a layer of ice from two to four thousand kilometers thick. They stretch for 1200 kilometers and rise to 3000 meters, which is one third of the height of Everest.

Singing ice

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in Antarctica. Its thickness is several hundred meters and covers an area of ​​more than 500,000 square kilometers – the size of France.

Scientists have recently discovered that Ross’s ice shelf sings an eerie melody caused by winds blowing through the snow dunes. Winds create surface vibrations and almost non-stop seismic tones.

Giant hole

In 2017, a hole the size of Ireland was discovered in Antarctica. Known as wormwood, this hole is not new – with the exception of a span of 78,000 square kilometers, it is the largest hole seen since the 1970s.

Mount Erebus

Mount Erebus is a natural wonder, with liquid magma and ancient lava lakes that boil for about 1.3 million years. It is the southernmost active volcano in the world and the second largest volcano of Antarctica, whose height reaches 3800 meters.

South ocean

The Southern Ocean was named the fifth ocean in the world in 2000. It is the fourth largest ocean in the world that surrounds the entire continent of Antarctica.

Dry McMurdo Valley

The thought of the desert usually conjures up images of hot sandy plains, but Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. It is incredibly dry and windy, with only 50 mm of precipitation per year, while 99% of the continent is covered with ice. Dry valleys have a climate similar to Mars, and scientists believe that this region may contain the secrets of life on other planets.

Antarctic mushrooms

Many microorganisms and extremophiles were found in Antarctica, including endemic species of fungi.

Ancient meteorites

Antarctica is a golden field for meteorites. Although meteorites can fall all over the earth, they are easier to find in Antarctica because cold and dry conditions retain rocky fragments.

In 2013, a group of Japanese and Belgian scientists discovered the largest meteorite found in East Antarctica in the past 25 years. Extraterrestrial stone weighed 18 kilograms. The team searched for meteorites for 40 days, finding 425 meteorites with a total weight of 75 kilograms. The discoveries included a piece of the asteroid West and a meteorite from Mars.

Aliens, Nazis and the lost city

Antarctica is a breeding ground for secrets, and over the years it has had its share of conspiracy theories. From elongated skulls and strange pyramids to alien spaceships, bizarre structures and giant stairs, many people believe that extraterrestrial life once lived in Antarctica (or still exists). The secret of Antarctica is kept deep beneath its surface, where no one has entered before. They say that the lost city of Atlantis is hidden under kilometers of ice.

It is possible that the civilization of Atlantis existed in Antarctica, but it remains to be proved that the continent is the site of the legendary lost city. It is also believed that the Nazis used underground Antarctica as a secret refuge, and some believe that Hitler fled here after the war. Hitler had a passion for occultism, and he was looking for something in Antarctica – the Germans built a station in Antarctica – but it was abandoned 70 years ago after the crew was poisoned by polar bear meat. The Great White Continent is the most obscure and inexplicable corner on Earth, and despite the dedicated efforts of scientists around the world, people may never know all its secrets.

In 1965, on the territory of Ecuador, entrepreneur and ethnologist Juan Moricz, with the help of local Indians, discovered the oldest man-made underground communications system. According to him, he found in its halls a unique library of books, the sheets of which were thin metal plates covered with mysterious symbols. Journalists immediately called this find the Library of Atlantis.

Mysterious Metal Books

The story of this sensational discovery is very confusing, full of intrigue and tragic accidents. As a result, what could change the whole history of mankind turned out to be lost again – let’s hope not forever. It all started with the statement of the Argentine businessman Juan Moricz about the discovery in Ecuador of a huge ancient underground labyrinth, in which he discovered a mysterious library of books with metal pages.

According to Moricz, the underground tunnels discovered by him stretch for thousands of kilometers under the territories of three states at once – Argentina, Peru and Ecuador. Its main entrance is located in the inaccessible jungle region where the Santiago and Coangos rivers come together. The researcher noted that the tunnels are clearly of artificial origin, their walls are very smooth, literally polished, the ceilings are even and flat, as if covered with glaze. Passages from tunnels led the researcher to impressive underground halls. However, much more interesting than the underground communications was what Moricz discovered in them. So, according to the researcher, he found an ancient library of 20-kilogram books consisting of thin metal sheets measuring 96 by 48 cm.

On each of these pages some mysterious signs were engraved or stamped. According to Moricz, it was a library of an ancient extinct civilization.

Man Soaring Above The Earth

In addition to the library, Moricz found in the dungeons a large number of golden figures of various animals. There were elephants, bison, crocodiles, monkeys, jaguars. These figures were placed along the walls of halls and walkways. Interestingly, the floor of the tunnels was decorated with very interesting drawings. For example, one depicted a round Earth and a man hovering above it. It was clear that the representatives of the most ancient civilization clearly knew about the spherical shape of our planet.

It is worth recalling another floor drawing. Engraved on the floor of the tunnel, a fossil dinosaur was depicted! Let get reminded that, according to generally accepted data, dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, however, this figure is dated at about 4-9 thousand BC. What can be said about real meetings between dinosaurs and the representatives of this ancient civilization?

Moricz also found a very mysterious outdoor figure. A strange creature with a rectangular body and a round head stood on a globe-ball and held the sun and moon. Another figure, nicknamed the “pilot”, was in a helmet with headphones. The suit of the “pilot” resembled a spacesuit, wires led to it, a ring was attached, and the figure’s hands in gloves. One of Moricz’s astounding finds resembled the Concord model of a supersonic passenger airliner.

Juan Moritz sent one such figurine of an “airplane” to the museum of the Colombian capital Bogota, and left another in a dungeon. Experts who studied the artifact cast in pure gold came to the conclusion that the figure is actually a model of an airplane. This was indicated by geometrically regular wings and a high vertical keel, which, as you know, are not found in birds.

Squeezed By The “Grip” Of His Secret

Newspapers reported that Juan Moricz, during negotiations with the President of Ecuador, allegedly negotiated for himself the right to full control over the find and reserved the rights to filming and photography.

It seems that after his discovery, Moricz stopped sleeping soundly. Perhaps he was afraid that someone more eminent would appropriate his discovery or that some gang would plunder the treasures of the dungeons, leaving him with nothing. That’s why he kept secret the entrance to the dungeons and pulled in every way its disclosure.

However, the discovery still required him to take some action, it was necessary to maintain a certain “buzz tension” around the find, otherwise the hope for major sponsors and the assistance of well-known scientific institutions would disappear. It was then that he decided to involve Erich von Daniken, who became very famous after the publication of his book Chariots of the Gods.

In 1972, Moricz and Daniken met in South America. Daniken claimed that it was then that Moritz showed him a secret entrance to the underground communications system in in the Cueva de los Tayos (Spanish for “Cave of the Oilbirds”).

In his writings, Moricz says:

“(This is . . . ) an archaeological reality that has so far been either entirely unknown or at least flat-out denied by mainstream scientists. The first expedition serves as the steppingstone for a second part of the expedition with which we intend to obtain proof that the discovered underground cave system is an area of activity of the progenitors of mankind.”

However, the discoverer did not open the hall with a mysterious library to Daniken, but only showed him an amazing maze.

After Moricz and Daniken emerged from the caves, Moricz took him to see Father Carlos Crespi, who possessed a large collection of similar metal plates that were also covered with mysterious engravings and glyphs, and that have remained undeciphered to this day. Some of the plates look ancient, finished very elaborately and engraved with glyphs. Others appear to be almost new and made in a simplistic style. Most of the plates consist of brass, zinc and copper. (A note about the metals: the American scientist, Professor Heather Lechtmann of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, proved in a study that the pre-Columbian people of South America were masters at coating metal with very thin layers of gold, in some cases, 0.5 to 2 micrometers thick.)

Part of Father Crespi’s collection now resides in the Museum of the Banco Central in Cuenca, Ecuador. The chief restorer there, José Maldonado, wrote:

“We know nothing about the origin of these objects, nor where they were found.”

Following the trail of this “adventure”, Erich von Daniken published the book “Gold of the Gods”. In it, he described the straight and smooth walls of the tunnels that shocked him so much. However, in an interview with the German publications Stern and Spiegel, Juan Moricz unexpectedly stated that he had never been in tunnels with Erich von Daniken. This statement dealt a blow to the reputation of the Swiss, which scholars had already taken hold of after his book Chariots of the Gods.

He was accused of fabricating facts proving the presence of aliens from outer space on the planet in antiquity. Daniken claimed that it was then that Moricz showed him a secret entrance to the underground communications system. However, the discoverer did not open the hall with a mysterious library to Daniken, but only showed him an amazing maze.

Later, Moritz nevertheless admitted that he showed Erich von Daniken an insignificant cave unrelated to the main network of dungeons. Most likely, at the very last moment, Moricz realized that the Swiss, already “promoted” in the media, could well push him as a pioneer into the background. That’s why he framed the famous researcher and writer.

Daniken’s attempts to somehow justify himself were unsuccessful at that time. In an interview with the Spiegel magazine on March 19, 1973, Moricz confirmed the reality of the tunnels that he had discovered and that a certain person had indicated them to him, whose name he refused to tell. Soon, a Scottish scientist and traveler Stanley Hall contacted Moricz. He invited him to organize a joint Ecuadorian-British expedition with the participation of the Ecuadorian army, biologists, botanists and various specialists.

Stanley believed that the expedition should be led by a very authoritative person, and offered to do this to astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon. He accepted his offer, and on August 3, 1976 a group of researchers led by Armstrong went down into the tunnels. They managed to find a funerary cave with a sitting mummified body, and the biologists who joined the expedition discovered about four hundred unknown plants near the cave.

However, this all ended – they never got to the metal library. It seems that Juan Moricz was once again afraid that all the laurels of discovery would go to a different person, because Armstrong was much more authoritative than Daniken.

Fading Ray Of Hope

In 1991, Moricz died, but Hall managed to find a man who showed him the entrance to the tunnel. It was Petronio Jaramillo. He agreed to meet with Hall and stated that Moricz had shown Armstrong’s expedition a completely different cave. If you believe Petronio, then he got into the room with a library of metal books back in 1946 with his uncle, who was friends with the Shuar tribe, which guarded the entrance to the labyrinths. Jaramillo confirmed that he personally saw thousands of metal books on the shelves.

He visited the dungeons again and chose to take out 7 books from the shelves, but could not take pull them out, it was extremely hard. By the way, he said that in the second hall there were some quartz tablets, possibly also carriers of information. Petronio talked about the numerous statues of people and animals and the sealed golden doors leading, most likely, to the graves. Wandering through the dungeons, he went into the room where there was a large translucent sarcophagus of a huge gilded mummy. Hall agreed with Jaramillo to organize an expedition to research the dungeons. Alas, the conflict between Peru and Ecuador that arose in 1995 forced researchers to postpone it. Then, in Ecuador, the political regime changed, and a sharp aggravation of the situation in the country forced Hall to return to Europe.

In 1998 he received terrible news – Petronio was killed right next to his house. Although the attack looked like a street robbery, it cannot be ruled out that someone eliminated the “key” to discovering the Atlantis library.

Although Hall never knew the exact location from Petronio Jaramillo, after the death of Jaramillo in May 1998, Hall arranged a trip with Mario Petronio, the son of Jaramillo, during which they combined their knowledge. The journey was only aimed at reaching the “zero point”.

In May 2000, Hall returned.

He showed aerial maps, indicating a bend on the river and a cliff line that hides the entrance cave – the entrance to the system, which stretches for several miles. His assumption – a rock collapse (evidence of an ancient earthquake) opened an underground network. Hall visited this place and concluded that it fits perfectly with Jaramillo’s description.

Need for cooperation

The information that Jaramillo managed to share with Hall prompted the researcher to speculate where the entrance to the cave could be, because, as Jaramillo said, the entrance is hidden under river water, and to get into the maze, you need to swim through an underwater tunnel.

So, on January 17, 2005, Hall informed the Ecuadorian government about the location of the cave, which meets the description of Jaramillo, and which, he hoped will be the goal of the expedition, this place turned out to be the bend of the Pastaz river.

For anyone who is interested, the coordinates are: – 77 ° 47’34 ′ west longitude and 1 ° 56’00 ′ south latitude.

Hall thinked it would take decades or a shift in worldview before people can work together for a common purpose. He argued that the 1976 expedition took place only because the military regime was in power; “The democratic bureaucracy will flood the expedition before at least one marshy river meets on the way.”

All that is required is a sense of cooperation and openness. Too many people have tried to use the library as evidence of their own theory of an alien coming, all-conquering Hungarians or the Hall of Records. Perhaps that is why these missions were doomed. Maybe we should let the library speak for itself. Answers to questions regarding who built it, where they came from, etc. we can find inside. After all, is it a library or not?

To this day, dozens of enthusiasts and treasure hunters are engaged in its searches, but so far without success.

American scientists made a rather amazing discovery. It turns out that even in ancient times, Greeks and Aztecs worshipped the same seven-headed deity.

After studying the petroglyphs, it was discovered that in the pantheon of both of these people there is a mysterious creature depicted in the form of a seven-headed hydra.

Immediate attention to this extraordinary connection between these cultures is drawn as this image cannot be confusing, this is the seven-headed hydra that menorah described in the Bible as well as an Indian deity and many examples from other people of the ancient world. An illustration of a seven-headed monster was also discovered in Altai. It is believed that it was created about five thousand years ago.

In the lower left corner of the picture you can see the runic inscription: “Manaka”. To the right is a tree – a symbol of the Milky Way, which was also a sacred symbol of the Turks.

After studying the Aztec pantheon, almost identical images of another creature with seven snake heads were found.

This image can be found in ancient temples throughout Mexico. In short, it is a creature with seven snake heads.

An interesting addition to this story is the existence of an Aztec fertility deity named Chicomecōātl- her name translated means seven snakes. She was a mother goddess who uses the sun as a shield. Notice that her sun shield looks exactly like the image of the sun on the Siberian petroglyph below.

However, this is not all. No less interesting correlations appear in Hinduism. There is a goddess of fertility, who is sometimes portrayed as a woman whose head is surrounded by seven snakes.

She is called the goddess Manas, therefore, at least the first part of her name corresponds to the inscription on the petroglyph.

In Hinduism, the goddess Manasa Devi or Mansa Devi is considered the queen of snakes, whose worship is very popular in eastern India, and especially in Bengal, Jharkhand and Orissa. The cult of Manas Devi, according to researchers, is one of the most ancient cults of India. Historians claim that she was worshiped in pre-Aryan times.

Such unexpected relationships between distant cultures may indicate that Eurasian nomads are involved in the resettlement of America.

In Eurasia, the seven-headed deity was also worshiped by the Assyrians and Sumerians, who called the snake Mushman. After all, Greek mythology also tells the story of the Lernaean Hydra killed by Hercules.

The name Hydra is associated with water. In Indo-European mythology, snakes and dragons were the guardians of water. The hero must defeat them in order to free the water and return fertility to the earth.

There were no traces here after the deification of this creature, although perhaps this was due to the demonization of pantheons hostile to Greek public policy.

However, the question arises, why did the nomads worship this seven-pointed deity? Since ancient times, people have known the constellation Hydra, whose peak consists of seven bright stars.

Chicomecōātl as the constellation Virgo

According to the nomads, it was this heavenly dragon who created the Milky Way. Stories about the mother goddess could give her the status of the creator of the world as a whole. Of course, there are those who will also conduct a literal analysis of these legends. Then the concept of the star goddess, associated with the heads of snakes, can cause associations with the famous Sumerian Annunaki and the theory of paleocontacts associated with them.

There are amazing parallels between Chicomecōātl and the constellation Virgo: Chicomecōātl holds ears of corn in his hand and sits on a seven-headed snake. Virgo holds wheat trees, and it is located right next to Hydra. The solar shield simply represents the Sun passing through these constellations.

The summer solstice was in Cancer (with the head of Hydra behind) from about 2500 to 500 BC. e. Well, that’s too much a coincidence, isn’t it?

Back to the sun shield symbol

Although this symbol probably refers to the sun, you may wonder why it looks like a cross with four dots. The answer to this question may lie in another famous episode from Hindu mythology – Samudra Mantan – churning of the ocean.

In short, this episode depicts the creation of the universe. Good and evil deities used the serpent god Vasuki (the brother of the aforementioned Manas) to rotate the mountains (axis mundi) and to froth milk (Milky way) to create the nectar of immortality.

The Hydra constellation, extending more than 100 degrees across the sky, was the longest constellation known to ancient people. Therefore, it is not surprising that it is the snake that moves the Mundi axis.

This event is celebrated in India at one of the most important festivals known as Kumbh Mela. According to legend, after the churning process was completed, four drops of nectar were shed in four different places in India. Since then, these four cities have become places of pilgrimage for this religious holiday. Each of the cities has its own celebration date. These dates are not fixed, they depend on the position of the Sun, Moon and Jupiter (Indra).

But if you look at the position of the Sun, you will see that it should be in the signs of Aries, Leo, Capricorn and Libra (one for each city). These four constellations depict the celestial cross on the zodiac, and in antiquity they were used to refer to the four seasons. Possibly, for this reason that the symbol of the solar shield has a cross and four points.

Conclusions

How the symbol of the semi-headed “deity” that we see on the 5,000-year-old Siberian petroglyph was spread all over the globe in those days when peoples could not contact each other?

Are the stories of Manas, Mushman or Chicomecōātl a trace of an unknown history of mankind? Naturally, this is only one common denominator that can testify to the whole spectrum of things. In principle, thinking about a period of history that we do not know well is a difficult and tedious task. It remains only to catch such unusual relationships so that the scientific community could not ignore them.