Mysteries and the unexplained
UFOs, crop circles, monsters and lost worlds.
Terra Terra Collections Mysteries and the unexplained
Places tied to stories nobody has fully settled: the secret test site at Area 51, the Wiltshire fields where crop circles keep appearing, the lights of Hessdalen, the Nazca desert, Loch Ness and the Bermuda Triangle. Embossify models the real ground from real elevation data, so what you hold is the land itself; what happened there is up to you to decide.
18 stops · read them in order, or jump to the one you want
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Area 51, Nevada
The dry lake and the mountains around the secret test site at Groom Lake.
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Avebury and the Wiltshire crop-circle fields, England
Chalk downs around the biggest stone circle in Europe, Silbury Hill and the Alton Barnes valley, where more crop circles have been reported than anywhere else.
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Hessdalen Valley, Norway
A quiet valley where unexplained lights have been reported since the 1930s, watched by an automated research station.
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Nazca Lines, Peru
The dry plain with huge ancient drawings in the desert floor. The lines are too faint to show in terrain, but the plateau and valleys around them do.
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Richat Structure, Mauritania
The Eye of the Sahara, a 40 km ring of eroded rock that is easy to see from orbit.
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Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
The island of the moai, three volcanoes in the open Pacific.
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Gobekli Tepe, Turkey
A hilltop of carved stone pillars about 11,500 years old, older than Stonehenge and farming itself.
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Plain of Jars, Laos
Thousands of giant stone jars scattered over grassy hills. Nobody is sure who made them or why.
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Stonehenge, England
The stone circle on Salisbury Plain and the barrows around it.
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Bermuda
A fish-hook island chain on one corner of the famous Bermuda Triangle.
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Loch Ness, Scotland
A 230 m deep lake in the Great Glen, home of a famous monster.
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Bluff Creek, California
Steep forest above the Klamath River, where the famous 1967 Bigfoot film was shot.
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Dyatlov Pass, Russia
A bare ridge in the northern Urals where nine hikers died in 1959, one of the best known unsolved cases in Russia.
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Oak Island, Nova Scotia
A small wooded island where people have dug for buried treasure for more than 200 years.
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Mount Roraima, Venezuela
A tabletop mountain with 400 m cliffs that inspired The Lost World.
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Sedona, Arizona
Red rock buttes and spires around Cathedral Rock and Bell Rock.
