5 Unexplainable Mysteries Explained by Science 

Oh yeah i forgot about that

Thoughts to make me lose my appetite and subsequently weight

IKR

Vulture vomit. Yum.

Partially predigested food. Yum Yum.

@Terry H Thankfully they died long before it was discovered to be vulture spew. Whether they died naturally of old age is another mystery!!

wow, sounds like a cool name for a rockband

Who would ever think that buzzards have weaker stomaches than my girlfriend. *Buzzard #1:* "Don't throw up! If you throw up, I'll throw up." *Every other buzzard:* Me too...me too...

@@superque4 you just wanted to flex the fact that you have a girlfriend, didn't you?

@@dLzzzgaming Busted.

I saw will-o the-wisp in my grandmothers house in the 1970's. She was burning peat or coal at that time. A tennis sized ball of light (Blueish with a hint of mauve) floated from the fire place and moved around the room about 4 feet off the ground until it hit the curtains and disappeared. It had a slight hissing sound and appeared to have a life of its own! My grandmother just laughed, I guess she had seen it happen before!

😂😂

@@kokujin5446 deforestation is very funny

Which is incredibly sad, because wetland isn't just habitation for animals, insects and plants, they are also very rich in carbondioxide, meaning that breaking up and destroying wetland will result in metric tons of carbondioxide being released into the atmosphere- which we definitely don't need more of in our current year.

F for respect Oops, I meant F Gb F G Ab A Ab Bb B C... (Liszt Transcendental Étude 5)

yes

Hardly. Education is process of disseminating human capital- skills, values, knowledge in a “school”. education can bring wealth to individuals, communities and nations in many ways, but only if it is real education. Whatever that means…I’m now Confucian

Dftba? Jesus just type it...

@@randomname4726 what

@randomname4726 what a stupid thing to get pissy over.

Now there is the supernatural mystery!

There was a similar incident in Norway fairly recently iirc. Only it was white stuff. Guys tasted it. Turns out it was Reindeer semen. Forgot how it got all over the town, but I checked out once I heard that.

@@jordandehart6905DISGUSTAAAAANG!

You know some random dudes are gonna be curious/dumb enough to do it. There's always at least one guy who's gotta "check it out". 🤷‍♀️

They did it for science of course.

Nice!

Ahahaha that's the best dad joke I've ever heard!

Best dad joke ever!! Seriously lol :)

Im crakin

Epic pun usage! +500 kraken up pun points

Normally, I'd agree. But, in each of these cases, he's presenting theories, not facts. None of these has a shred of fact to them, they're just someone's ideas (many of them unlikely, frankly). Presenting theories as established fact delegitimizes real science, and gives crackpots room to argue that the Moon landings didn't happen, and the Earth is flat...

@@madnessbydesign1415 - It's good to be sceptical, but PhysicsGirl did a vid about the "sailing rock" & the guys who put trackers on the rocks, to alert them if they moved, so they actually got to see them moving (& why) with their own eyes.

@@hervigdewilde3599 I saw that episode, and she did a good job of explaining how they came to their conclusions - based on actual data collection (you know, like real science). She didn't just rely on computer models and conjecture. That's what was missing from this Sci Show episode...

They were erected around the coast, looking at the sea. Probably they were put there as some sort of protection from invaders from the sea (real or imagined), so the would-be invaders would look at the figures and probably mistake them for giants from afar. I'm just speculating, btw, probably we will never know for sure, because the culture who made them disappeared completely.

We will never have the opportunity to ask them because they distroyed the ecosystem of their own environment and all died as a consequence. Unfortunatelly, this o happening to us right now as well.

@@samuela-aegisdottir I remember seeing a show somewhere that suggested the ecosystem on Easter Island was changing anyway, even without human intervention, so the islanders might have been screwed either way.

@@samuela-aegisdottir- They didn't die out. Their culture changed, and Europeans changed it further.

@@juanausensi499- Easter Island is the middle of nowhere. No invaders or enemies until Europeans showed up.

People who live there: Free meat let's taste it!

@@VioletDeathRei never turn down a hot meal

That fried chicken is pathetic, here have some good food Raw vomit Meat

Of all the luck....

@@VioletDeathRei lets hope they cooked it with lava

Kevin Benoit da dum chsh

Lol Lol Lol

Leave the premises

“They were all meat eaters”

Kevin Benoit Good o🤣🤣

I dont think they had to taste it to be honest.

Yes, it may sound very unusual with the taste that they were even able to eat! I am shocked and I hope I will get more such videos from SciShow

No Both guys spat it out

Tbf as gross as it sounds, and boy is it gross, vultures have super strong stomach acid to kill nasty bacteria that is all over the carcasses they eat. That being the case vulture meat vomit probably wouldn't be too harmful to eat. However please don't put that to the test!

Ah yes scientists taste everything they test right?

Thank you. I didn't notice but you're absolutely right

Oh my god yes!

True that. Randomly came across this video and it's informative while still being fun.

YES😅

Yes! And also having no over-used memes to punctuate every word *shocked Pikachu face*

Even thin ice sheats, such as lake ice, produce, upon breaking, sounds that resemble faint distant gunfire.

Scale that up to glacial proportions and you get infrasound. That are felt, not heard.

Quicksand also turned out far less of a problem than I thought as a kid...

@@blahfasel2000 oh no quicksand is still just as big a problem as we've thought it was

I heard a story about an old lady's corpse that spontaneously combusted, but the explanation was something like the body had dried out somewhat, it was hot, and their body's combustibles got concentrated. It may have been on Film Theory though, so I'm not sure it's a real one. It seems like spontaneously combusting would be pretty unlikely under normal circumstances, seeing how we're like 70% water.

Ripley's Believe it or Not (Book)!

allright time to explain this to ya'll (theres a video about it on yt too). people dont spontaneously combust, however a few decades ago people thought otherwise as they'd leave someone (mostly older people) alone and they'd come back to a overcooked fleshy thing sitting where little old granny was a few hours ago. most of these were smokers, which is why the idea came up that it might actually just be that they dropped a lit cigarette, which in turn made something catch fire and bam you've got crispy grandma. and since grandma in both crispy and non crispy form is highly unlikely to move...like at all, she wouldnt be able to escape the homemade barbeque of death. so no, there are no spontaneously combusting people walking around ready to blow up at any moment, this is ofcourse not counting terrorists in the equation. its just people who probably dropped a lit object and turned themselves into frank the paralysed fireball.

My guess is that some company dumped a large amount of spoiled meat nearby and many vultures gathered, then after they are their fill they flew in a direction over town, possibly returning to wilderness but as they flew over town their body rejected the contents if their stomach for some reason causing it to shower on earth

@@abyssstrider2547 that kinda crossed my mind.

@@eineweitereratselhafteseel8801 Neat :D glad to see a like minded individual

Sure.

And someone had tried eat it to test if it were real meat

Dammit. Beat me to it

Thank you friend, exactly what I wanted to say!

So I wasn't the only one who thought of SpongeBob when I saw that part lmao

If anyone's played Frogger you'll know why moving Boulders are terrible

_Came to the comments looking for this reference, was not disappointed._

Technically, the earthquake happened before the noise. What you're hearing is the shockwave of sound that travels faster, obviously, than the shockwave in the earth that caused the 4.5 magnitude aftershock

The animals always know, in Indonesia before the earthquake and tsunami all the elephants ran to high ground followed by other animals.

​@@swordzanderson5352 Seismic waves travel at 6 times the speed of sound in air or more. Also even the strongest earthquakes don't create an athmospheric shock wave. Instead what was most likely happening was that they were hearing secondary sounds created by the P-waves (pressure waves) of the earthquake coming through which travel about 70% faster than the S-waves (shear waves). S-waves are the ones that cause most of the destruction and can be felt more strongly. This speed difference is also what earthquake warning systems rely on, giving a few minutes (depending on distance to the epicenter) of warning before the destructive S-waves hit.

@@blahfasel2000 Thanks for the info. On second thought, yeah, makes sense that waves travel faster in solids than in air, my intuition made me say some bs. My bad.

I heard humming sounds right before the earthquake in northern CA. Dec 2022

insertswear ...pretttty much

Wait that is not a normal thing

You haven't?

People also eat ground up maggots, roaches, rat hair/poop/pee, and quite a few other things you probably don't want to be told is in your food right before you eat it. And that's on a daily basis. A little vulture vomit doesn't seem too bad compared to all that.

@@lordgarion514 Don't forget about the most expensive coffee, where the beans are harvested out of the poop of a specific mammal who's name i forgot

Yes

I am so confused by your comment please esplain to me exactly what your talking about I have had an experience twice with the Wisp, And I am researching details in deth I am interested in any information that you have.

@@BEE-od3li I think you replied to the wrong comment

@@BEE-od3li- _Avatar: The Last Airbender_ reference.

Well played sir/mam/... Can't remember any others pronowns..

🗿:*Tips fedora* m'lady

.....underrated comment.

Rapa Nui

😏

Depends on the context. Unless stated or implied, could be either.

Depends on the anime. In universe I have seen it portrayed as both. A weird one is a Shonen Jump character reading Shonen Jump

I mean, in Spiderman: Spiderverse, there was literally a comic book about spiderman where spiderman actually exist

@@ohthatwan8559 Logan had X men comics

@@Dr.Spatula Talking about Gintoki from Gintama? lol

That's probably one of the wisest comments I've read in a long time.

What do you think about the wisp

That we can make live action special effects

@@silentwisdom7025 As soon I read this, I thought the same thing.

Only if we know the difference. Believing in things without good reason is horrifically damaging to our world.

Neither magic nor UFOs!

I thought of that exact quote the moment I saw the thumbnail!

My hero

Depends on how you define "magic" I s'pose :)

They're all magic if your definition of magic is broad enough

Crazy lights in the sky? Electric rocks Meat showers? Vulture vomit Don't ask questions. Stay in your lane. Trust the government.

#4

the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles

It's like Pikachu if I stress it enough!

You mean 4#

@@Mason_Malakai_Leroux really... Its been a year, and you're giving me crap? Get a life...

Hahaha, person with a cutesy name here.

Science: No, I keep telling you, it is NOT!

It's always like that, haha. Some people want to be fooled.

No - its just called "Adolescents" and a few adults that behave like Adolescents. Good News - most outgrow it. 😉

Emperor Darth Jar Jar Snoke Internet commentators: Science can’t explain this! Therefore it must have been caused by ghosts, fairies, and aliens! Dr. Membrane: *NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE!*

Duude! That might have been a cool experience. I wish I could watch that phenomenon too.

what the actual fork did i just read? that sounds amazing.

That is a fascinating story! Thank you for sharing.

That is pretty darned cool.

My mum to this day insists min min lights are magic and is terrified to drive on any road reported to have them appear.

More like Meatier shower

Get out

Peter Walker Us

Gooood one!

Meat eater shower

Yashaswi Kulshreshtha ...I...should be surprised that humans ate it but...Kentucky. It may not be Alabama or West Virginia...or Florida...but...yeah... the heat and humidity kinda roasts peoples’ brains.

@@anonymousfellow8879 Yeah, hot and humid climate is really frustrating, but how does your reply refers to my comment as answer? Were U just putting your point casually or it meant something else. I said it kinda straight forward, i dont wanna be rude but i am just asking

@@anonymousfellow8879 why did you put like 50 ... in your comment

I'd say "Luscious Mustard" is pretty good in it's own right...

Agreed

You made me giggle/snort >

Allways leave them wanting More , lusciously

@ lol

He was pretty wrong about that. Ive watched plenty of reports and studies that say otherwise. Our bodies produce flammable gases. Lighting farts. But. Under the right circumstances things built w/carbon can start to burn. Ive seen a knot on a piece of plywood explode and spark. Me and a coworker were astounded. RU-vid human combustion. Now im not sure I can trust anything this guy says

@@dickfitswell3437 Don't believe everything you see on RU-vid

@@callmeworms replys after watching a youtube video...

There are survivors of SHC, it happens

@Aaron Tate Exactly, because it worried me!! But for those who have it on their death certificate, what should be on there?

maybe it´s a typo and meant to be 2-6cm are minute? considering some rocks have travlled 450m 2-6m seems way too fast.

I was surprised too, so I checked and SciShow's second source gives a very detailed description of the people witnessing it! Meters per second O_o www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/the-racetrack.htm

That was my exact thought too

Is not significant if it only lasts for a few seconds. Just like you can walk at 5 km/h while only moving 2 meters.

2 meters per minute is about .12 kilometers per hour. Or about 3 cm per second. Noticable up close but from a distance you would need time lapse video to see.

If they are sliding in ice. How do they leave a trail?

* mystery *

Did you actually watch the video? The rocks are driven by enormous sheets of ice which are in turn driven by the prevailing wind.

@@notsanctioned8590 they fart

The Rogue Wolf Not really.

@@AlraArt yeab it is

Or at least the name of a Cannibal Corpse song

You could shorten it to Synchronized Vomiting Vultures and make it like 3 growling vocalists with a bird aesthetic, I can see it working.

*metal Not entirely sure what subgenre would be best though.

@@fayetal_attraction lol

I've seen them indoors. I didn't touch either of them, but couldn't feel heat from being quite close to them either. Moving air didn't seem to affect them. So I can guarantee that its definitely not something burning. They *are* a light source, as their green glow shines on nearby objects.

Or fire force!

You mean before you tasted the meat?

Yes! I knew I wasn't the only one who thought of that line! XD

That line is based how conspiracy theorists say the government cover ups for UFOs always include stuff like swamp gas or light from stars or planets tricking the eye. It also mocks how the official report for the Roswell incident was a weather balloon. The funny thing is the Roswell weather balloon was real and contained atmospheric testers used to detect nuclear explosions hence the Top Secret nature of it, and many UFOs are in fact sighted over swamps so swamp gas is a potential cause.

@@akatoshslayer7599 Don't forget the desert. A lot of UFO sightings occur in deserts as well. There's also a lot of oil and gas in deserts. Coincidence? I think not. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-oil-usually-found/

What?!!

Yep. Pretty much!

those nasty beings

Jeffron27 I wonder how Merida thought they smelled

Kamilla Jakobsen no it just went zoooooom

It went so fast no one could see it

That's what I thought too. I tried not to give it much thought but it still bothered me. Of course, they were referring to rocks and not boulders. Boulders would be a bit slower.

Pioneers used to ride these babies for miles

They said 2-6 meters per minute but not *every* minute :)

"And it's in great shape"

@@ashleycantrell9844 You are my new best friend

I read that in spongebobs voice

It's not a boulder..... it's a rock!!

*for mile

D She Nah. Exploding corpses are.

@@anonymousfellow8879 eww, yes

Not everyone wants to fulfill your dreams of one day becoming a manager at WalMart.

@ Forgive me, this comment was made a year ago and I hadn't yet been enlightened to the scientific wonders of stone hats. I was foolish to brush aside these fascinating articles of silicate headwear.

Best follow-up comment

Then there was the UFO that scared them all.

I was thinking the same thing. I've seen black and turkey vultures and there's only so much meat you can fit in an individual bird.

I agree as well. I'm quite sure some one would have seen a ton of vultures flying by.

I am not sold to this explanation either.

Vultures fly very high, and in general, don't empty their whole-ass stomach contents all in one go while they are airborne. They most likely flew high enough to be obstructed by their falling refuse, and vomited small amounts of meat at one time over a period of the 3 or so minutes the "meat rain" lasted. This is a sensible conclusion, in my opinion. I hope this comment could be of some use to you as well.

Crown Jewel They’re Kentuckians. I’m honestly not surprised.

chegeny AWH yes! Haha it’s always my favourite comment - or at least it used to be before I wised up! - when people would tell me to use metric in my videos!

I’m about as much of an American country boy as they come and I greatly prefer SI units over our arbitrary imperial units in the U.S. I can’t even count how many times I’ve been called a commie over that.

Tanner White haha 😂 you keep doing you and hold your head up high chap!

@@TWhite94 As someone who only knows the metric system I always gets really confused with other systems. Like Fahrenheit. "It's hundred degrees outside today?" It is... boiling, literally, outside?

Come to Europe, fellow metric user, we will welcome you

Yeah that is faster than a Few small Animals and sloths

It's about the speed of a tortoise by my estimation and I tend to notice those guys moving

@@chrispitio7177 kinda funny how those also look like rocks from a distance

Well 6 meters a minute would be noticeable. 2 meters a minute is around 3 centimeters a second. So you'd have to be distracted or not paying attention to realize a big rock was on the move. Which I think was the point.

Next time that happens you can now point at the sky and say "Electric rocks, man!" What a wonderful world.

You don't have Google in Alaska?

@@98Zai well people do other things than Google daily to see if one random mystery has been solved?? Although yeah, I would probably be more interested in why

We will build these big beautiful heads. Nobody builds heads than me

no wonder their missing! someone realized their stupidity and impeached them!

I laughed so hard at all three of these comments! Thank you!

You win comments today

Ryan Dysinger I thought that they read “UNITY - DUTY - DESTINY”

Sounds like you are describing a plasma.

I've actually done the candy trick! It can take a few tries to get it right, but it's really cool.

Works best if you crush it in a pair of pliers. Interestingly, wintergreen lifesavers glow green, and peppermint lifesavers glow blue (although a lot dimmer.)

What? No, no, no. I'm not breaking candy. Damnit! *breaks candy in the dark* ok where's a bandaid.

At least some cases of "spontaneous human combustion" turned out to be obese people smoking in bed, falling asleep, and setting the blankets on fire. The way their fat burns causes the body to be burned up like a candle without as much damage to the further parts of the bed, so the aftermath looks odd.

"The Wick Effect"

Wicked

@@Br3ttM you’re telling me, they don’t wake up while being burned alive? If I caught fire I’d freak out and run around, even if I was asleep

@@isaiahbias5961 People who die in fires usually get knocked out by the gases, then die by the same gases, and THEN they finally burn.

Except none of these explanations makes any sense at all. These are all theories, and nothing more. When theories are presented as fact, they're no better than urban legends...

@@madnessbydesign1415 Don't make any sense? In what way? They're all based on observable, confirmed phenomena, even if we haven't seen the exact event occur. And some of them we have seen!

@@hmnhntr No, they're not based on observable or confirmed phenomena. Look at the Easter Island 'Hats' story. There is literally no evidence to suggest how it was done at all. THAT'S the mystery. "Well, they must have built a ramp, and had 2-3 guys pulling ropes from on top of the head.", was the answer. "Case closed.", said they. Now turn your brain on, and think for a moment. These statues are about 30 feet tall (10 meters). The 'hats' weighed about 12 metric tons. That's over 26,000 pounds each. Dirt ramps would compress heavily. So, 15 guys are able to pull 2 metric tons/over 26,000 lbs (meaning each man is able to pull over 1,733 pounds) UP a soft ramp (no traction, and the ramp's compression makes the work way harder) - and then, turn these rock behemoths 90 degrees (to make them sit flat on the 'heads'? I'd love to see that. Is there video of the "Scientists" testing this theory? (Spoiler) There is not. The 'ramp' would have to be a 'mound' encircling the entire statue to give 15 men a place to stand for this to work (the statue head is only about 6' across). Put your computer models to the test before claiming victory. Now consider, there are over a thousand of these statues. Yeah. The sheer volume of material needed to make that many ramps would take decades (probably longer) to accumulate, utilize, disassemble, and move to the next statue, and that's assuming the entire population of the island had nothing better to do. It's a dumb theory - and there is NO evidence to support it (no huge pits where all this material came from, no piles from where it was left when they were done, etc. - you know, 'evidence'). It's just someone's best guess. Not having a better idea doesn't count as evidence. So, that's why I wrote that it doesn't make sense at all. I can break down the others as well, if you like (since there are glaring problems with each story), but this one can serve as a template. Simple Logic says none of these cases are closed at all. Saying it's been solved shuts down real Science from trying to find real answers. They're all just guesses (and frankly, not good ones). There's nothing wrong with a mystery - until you rubber stamp a bs answer on it and call it a day...

@@madnessbydesign1415- A theory explains what's observed, and draws on other information when needed. Theories do change, either because of new information or because they were found wanting. No need to invoke extraterrestrial proctologists and vandals.

@@julietfischer5056 You missed the point: This episode was claiming these cases were 'solved'. That's not theory, that's a conclusion. But each of these theories was deeply flawed, and could not possibly be determined as 'the right answer'. Don't call it a fact, when it's just an idea...

Those are called Green Ghosts (and happen over top of Red Sprites as the lightening that spawns them reaches different atmospheric layers.) Pecos Hank does a great video about these!

Just another form of lightning, of which there are many.. It is thought foo fighters / lightning balls can be produced by powerful radar beams interfering constructively at a point in the sky, ionising the atmosphere.. Much the same tech now used for full 3D, in-air plasma projection that focuses I believe 4 lasers to a point and moves the point around very fast, like a 3D vector monitor but in the air. -- This tech. can also project audio to an exact point in space by pulsing the ionisation of the air at a point to match the source audio pulses. This tech. has been used by the military for decades and you can now watch videos of commercial tech. There's a god Reuters article with a couple of vids.

One punch. Really.

Whats a saitama

@@kk-uo2pd A superhero from the anime One Punch Man. It's satire, with a running gag being that Saitama is so strong any enemy he punches explodes into a flying mass of blood and organs meats.

Or vultures fleeing from Saitama