7 Chilling Mysteries Still Unsolved by Scientists 

QuietHands my mom and I experienced ball lightening in a Summer electric storm in the early 90s, in Damascus, Oregon. All the widows were open she was in the kitchen cooking dinner and I was in the living room - right next to the kitchen, I was talking on a cordless phone. There was a deafening crack, the cordless phone went dead and I looked at my mom and there was a bluish white glowing ball about the size of a volleyball between she and I. we had enough time to make eye contact she told me to put the phone down and get away from it and with that another deafening crack and it was gone... no sign of anything. my sister was in college for biology at OSU and she reached out to her professors asking what the heck it was. The consensus was ball lightening- they gave us a few copied articles in regards to it. the idea then was a concentrated ball of nitrogen.

Heather C. that sounds really similar to our experience! terrifying but amazing, right? glad no one was hurt and hope there wasn't too much electrical damage, we had to replace a few things but i think worth it for that once-in-a-lifetime scene.

QuietHands I don't remember if there was anything needing to be replaced. possibly the phone, it went totally dead. And my mom has had tinnitus (constant ringing in the ears) since, because it was so loud! yeah, an unforgettable experience for sure! certainly instilled a deeper respect for the power of mother nature.

Heather C. Oh no, sorry about your mom! I've had tinnitus, it's not an easy thing to deal with. What a story of how she got it though!! D:

Yup that would do it... thanks for sharing.

*In Olivia’s voice* “The scratching under your bed at night isn’t always what it seems. Sometimes the floor boards are just creaky. Other times a windy day can move the house just enough to cause the sounds. Less often, the entity is just feeding.”

​@@zach11241 Night Vale vibes. 💜 Cecil's voice is also very calming, and has helped me to feel so much better about so many existentially horrifying concepts. I highly recommend the podcast to all.

That sounds more like St. Elmo's Fire than ball lightning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27s_fire

Filipino right?

@@evandean3944 look at what they are called in his language..... Your comment is basically redundant. 😂

Everybody I know who has worked on a submarine or aircraft carrier has encountered it at some point and been warned against it from the moment they came aboard.

​@@SoManyRandomRamblings what

That way people won't say, you're full of... BALLoney ...

the weird thing is from what Iv read its more common in some areas than others to where some people have never seen it and other people have seen it multiple times. Like the brown Mountain Lights that no one can figure out but it happens regularly which tells me there must be a geological aspect like certain minerals in the soil or more static in the air or even maybe tree density but there are so many variables it would be hard to figure out

there was no one with you that day Samantha, you have to let it go!

@@m3rify I was in the passenger sear of the car and if my husband wasn't driving, how was I there? Besides, there are plenty of others in this thread who say their own examples.

@@SamanthaVimes lol I'm sorry I was just joking

Binging with Babish did an episode on it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7EnWiGYT1g4.html

Answer: Marketing. Probably, but that’s just a theory.

The world may never know

@@alexiswelsh5821 a *game* theory.

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"I know that I know nothing" ~Socrates "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I do not understand" ~Einstein "The more you know the less you understand" ~Laozi

Am Cat I think Cat in the Hat said that. Him or Dr. Seuss

Oh wait nvm I don't think he said that

@MrDW- Valid but false

Seriously...we don't know much.

I know this is a whole entire year later but I think the word you’re looking for is mycelium

"We will never know anything" ehhh i think it's better to stay away from absolutes.

@@doctorqueasy4505 we can't know everything. There's 900000 years of human history that we have very little knowlegde of.

Doctor Queasy They never wrote "we will never know anything". Writing that "we will never know everything" is a pretty safe thing to say, though.

@@CrankyPantss but op said everything...

You are very right. Indeed you make sense. We still have so many things to understand. We shouldn't be arrogant so early. I have seen peaople saying there's no God and they arrogantly think we are done with every knowledge. I have seen some scientist say the soul in the human body is like the electricity so we can't even revive a fresh unharmed dead body back to life. This was example and there are so many other things we are yet to discover.

Yes👍

I’ve heard of this type of thing occurring before, but never have I heard of it in quite so much detail. This was a fascinating read. Thank you so much for sharing this!

Fascinating, Thank you for sharing this.

true,true

awesome bro ..i had the laugh of my life

Like third grade

the sky is a snitch for that

Me: It’s just a little fart. The fart:

Wow that is so cool! Maybe they might be responsible for some of the skyquakes too, mentioned in the video?

@mio mia Nobodg asked you

I also saw ball lightning when I was a boy. I’m Irish, and was cycling home in a dark country lane and all of a sudden this glowing ball appeared in front of me. I was scared to death, thought it was a ufo or something. Saw or read something years later that methane gas from Borland can cause this rare phenomenon. It doesn’t explain people seeing it indoors, subs etc. but might explain my experience, cos there was a lot of fields, streams etc on route. Wish there were camera phones back then, because when I told my friends/ family, nobody believed me 😏

Absolutely!!

all the way back from Socrates but ok

No truer words have been spoken. The more i study and research the more i realize there is so much more i dont know....

..hence the expression Ignorance Is Bliss..

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Actually if you look into how magnetism interacts with itself, you'll see it might actually make sense. Imagine taking the negative end of a magnet and sticking it nearby some magnetic dust. It immediately forms a circle around the magnet trying to "get away" from the polarity at all costs. If you take 2 same ends of magnets themselves and try to put them together, they repel in a circle. You can go around and around, but never touch the magnets together.

That was my first thought as well. Even if the crater gets filled in, they still end up leaving a geological scar- you're not going to get a completely even distribution of sediment type, and that could effect how plants grow. Earth has been hit by meteors every bit as often as the moon has, but the moon has no atmosphere, so its meteor hits are more discernible.

It's a retarding agent at work continuously over say 10,000 years , the center is the oldest area of failures , it doesn't matter the bacteria virus toxin or genetic experiments being run . Perfect circle is one error.rate of change from point of infection equals a ray , or a vector of change , Delta . Bubbles , go get a bachlors degree in something sciency , an come talk.

And here i thought it was fairies. :(

Forest rings, fairy circles - very different than what she's talking about. Tree "circles are simply explained" (google that), now take a gander at this www.cnn.com/travel/article/namibia-fairy-circles-mystery-new-theory/index.html The circle she's talking about is uniquely different. It too large to be just trees dropping cones in a "circle" around itself.

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Thank you :)

We called it Santilmo in Philippines, unrestful spirits/ghosts.

Joan Llamedo it’s also called A soucoyant in the caribbean

Those are called "lampor" in mine.

@@joanllamedo St Elmo's Fire in the United States and Europe, before the stupid 80s movie by the same name. I remember my father and my uncle talking about it in the 1980s, my uncle is an electrician and created it by accident. It is a type of ball lightning.

Akhon 100taka Bair kor

Or the dolphins...they were just here for the fish anyway.

We are thinking on the basest of plains. What we need are more eyes.

@Toyz4twats1 We all know the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

i agree

@@colinp2238 but...why is dust the answer?

you sound like a loser

@@mojo5093 and you sound like a little boy who snuck on his mommy's computer! Now, step away from the big people's machine before your mommy catches you. If she does, you won't be allowed to fingerpaint later. And you know how much you like that. Remember? Now be a good little moron and go play with your jello.

@@mojo5093 go eat more lead paint chips now. They are tasty. BattousaiHBr is right.. you want a laugh, you watch this channel, you want real, proven science, you watch Scishow channel

@@BBigelow666 aaa, this is SciShow channel ...those tasty lead chips were fed to a few people out there in net land i see ..we best look out for those guys , right @L Bigelow ?? the crazy fools wear off on ya huh ? .. smh ...

My favourite type of science, Test that every second day

Came looking for this, was not disappointed!

Giggity!

This is wild to think of, there's so little air traffic here now, outside of the occasional cargo plane or the puddlejumpers flying (presumably) to the small local airports

We'll all be long dead by then

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But seriously, microbes DO fart underground!

@@davidk7544 lmao

I heard it too. I guess it was because we were primed by the methane talk.

The terms Aliens is considered offensive. Please refer to them as extra terrestrial being.

Definitely, Aliens... Just look into it...

@@fajaradi1223 *Terrestrially challenged

@@Volodimar its 2019 now, its extraterrestrially gifted

Nice throwback to the old meme.

www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-46811618 - Yup!

You were potentially (not a pun!) very lucky. I’ve read accounts of ball lightning bumping into people and throwing them across rooms. There was a particularly infamous case, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, where ball lightning entered a church and wound up killing four people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27s_fire

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Should have recorded it man, did you not have your phone on you?

This was almost four decades ago, in the pre-cellphone era. I lived in western Kansas at the time. We got really violent weather on a routine basis. Cleaning up tornado damage was steady work all summer if you were willing to drive 40 miles or so. Truckers routinely drove an extra hundred fifty miles to avoid the area because the wind often blows trailer trucks off the road on the stretch between Medicine Lodge and Coldwater. And my dad actually got hit by lightning once before I was born. I did the sensible thing and moved away, but now the weather everywhere is starting to get violent.

@@zrebbesh Ah. Yes indeed.

That's more than a theory. I hope you communicate this to someone who is also researching ball lighting. Write a letter to the editor at popular science or other. (for real).

You're not very good at jokes, are you?

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Look up "Frog eggs"

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Well now, that's just psychology 101.

There's this book! This book gives instructions on how to live your life, and that book mentions the Earth is flat. Also, it doesn't mention vaccines, so vaccines are wrong. However, it does talk about how America is the best country somewhere around the passage concerning cell phones and cars.

You dont mention global warming denier too?

because natural selection doesn't work for best it works for good enough.

You’d think the antivaxxers would’ve all died from measles by now.

Hey Cody love you videos

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A random Cody appears Cody used think it's super effective

Well yeah... Gotta find someone to look into this stuff. Maybe a person with a lab or something.

Hasn`t implies the yet doesn`t it? Hasn`t yet? As opposed to hasn`t in the future? Has not yet, or hasn`t work just as well don`t they? Not an english major lol, (random norwegian) but if one is more correct than the other I want to know why, because I like being a pedant on the internet ;)

Yup. They should update their video since that's a significant and misleading oversight.

Maybe they don't read _Science News._ This one was from January 9th: www.sciencenews.org/article/second-repeating-fast-radio-burst-tracked-distant-galaxy

Perhaps they shot this video before January 9th and haven't been keeping track of every bit of science news ever. I wish they would update their video, as it IS significant information, but we know that won't happen. Stuff is constantly changing, they can't keep going back and redoing them. Perhaps they'll do a scishow news about it though.

Hey, thanks for the update. Umm..what's CHIME?

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If you're paying for your classes, you'd freaking better! It's as valid a question as valid gets!

How did you know what it looks like? You searched that or are you a chemist

@@rakshith7002 Its just water crystals. Used to keep soil moist for plants.

You mean you saw it, not seen it. Don't be a dumbass.

That's exactly what I was thinking! But then she showed a photo of what was obviously a frog's egg mass. Could it be there is more than one kind, and we're just a bit freaked out to be seeing a hydration compound like a "lake" sitting on the ground? They do seem to happen on wet grass right?

@@rakshith7002 He may be guilty of being a Chemist, but it's ok.

I'll bet you love all her videos.😉

@@MasterJedi86I DO!!!!!

Please explain.

@@danielsteel5251 Mycelium often grows in round colonies. A few years ago I found 2 almost perfectly round lines of mushrooms 4-5 m in dia which I thought was crazy until I researched it a bit.

@@sanjuansteve Very cool! Now please explain why (i.e., how it is that) mycelium grows in circles. Because it seems like the same question, essentially. Something to do with elevation?

www.britannica.com/science/fairy-ring

sanjuansteve exactly, they’ve already done a video on fairy rings.

Haha I feel ya

Lol I mean even if I complete believe what they are saying, its like, there is nothing rational about what you just said. It just makes it more and more obviously that we live in a crazy sci-fi fantasy universe.

Only five protons per cubic meter, including dark matter and dark energy, is not so much of a difference when you think about it...

@@VG____ nah it's big difference and also quite a pivotal difference in science when you think about it....basically life would not be possible if they were equal amount of matter and anti-matter, but scientist up today don't know why theres more matter than anti matter

Yes, I was just mentioning the current average density of matter in our whole universe. Just adding some perspective :-) But your main point is correct, no discussion about it.

I've never understood why we think that. There's other galaxies out there we don't even know about. They might all be anti-matter.

I think she touched on that, but that was also my first guess. Sure happens often enough. I saw 4 meteors last night, and 12 satellites. This is normal right? Everyone does this?

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Just blame the lag, bro.

@@nathanbest5579 yeah... them fckn unreliable radio waves...

Desync

Are they dangerous?

What's the difference?

I'm a Florida man

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Depends on who has the Scope.

Was thinking the same thing. I’ve never even heard of it untill now.

Ball lightning?!!! You've got to be kidding.... there are many scientists who do not believe that this actually exists, that it's not even possible, so looking for an explanation is completely futile. 5% of people have seen it? What?!!! I have never met anyone in my life who even claims to have seen it. If 5% of people have seen it, then why is there not some really good evidence for it, like photographic or video? Perhaps 0.01% of the population have seen something they *thought* was ball lightning. I wasn't aware of a single, properly verified sighting of this often speculated phenomenon.

@@rnindless you're confusing rational scepticism with religious beliefs. Let's look at this one thing at a time. "There is plenty of raw footage of ball lightning" this is the problem, there isn't. There is plenty of dodgy footage of what people *claim* to be ball lightning, or perhaps what they genuinely thought was ball lightning, but that doesn't tell us anything about what they *actually* saw. We have absolutely no idea what they were *actually* filming. And, in addition to this, as others have pointed out in the main posts, there are many completely fraudulent videos of this and other phenomena. Separating the two is very difficult, especially when the fraudulent ones are by far the majority. The fact that scientists have never been able to replicate anything resembling full scale ball lightning in a lab, where so many variables can be controlled and optimised, should tell you something. As far as I am aware, there is absolutely *no* properly verifiable evidence of ball lightning 'in the wild'. This is exactly why it's such a shaky idea. If you can show me some, I would look at it, of course. This is something that I'm quite interested in, for reasons that I won't go into atm, so I've always been very receptive to any news on this. "I forget to tell my friends plenty of interesting things." Are you seriously telling me, that if you yourself actually witnessed something as incredible as ball lightning, that you would 'forget' to tell anyone else about it? That's ridiculous. And where do they get this figure of 5%??? In the UK alone, that would mean that over 3 million people had seen this. In the US, it would be over 15 million. And yet, as I said before, no one I have ever met in my entire life has ever even claimed to have seen it. It's the kind of thing people like to talk about. I am, by the way, plenty older than 40 years. "Just because something is unexplained or unfamiliar doesn't mean it doesn’t exist". I never made that statement. Do you believe in ghosts? Probably not. Even though many, many people have claimed to have seen them. The reason why neither of us believe in ghosts is because we apply rational scepticism to the likelihood of ghosts existing. Given that there is absolutely no evidence of the existence of ghosts, and absolutely no scientific theory which could explain them, we can be fairly certain that they don't exist. Or at least, I am. This is the position that 'ball lightning' finds itself in. It is a mythical phenomenon, an incredible, wondrous part of folklore, something that many people would like to believe exists, to elevate life from the mundane to the sublime and mysterious, and yet, in the end, it falls flat, as a scientific theory. No proper evidence, no scientific theory. Are we really to believe that beautiful, brightly glowing orbs of highly charged plasma can just 'float' through solid walls without interacting with them, and then just quietly melt away as if never having existed? As beautiful as this idea is, it's absurd. Last point. It is no coincidence that I responded to this video, in particular on this subject. I once had the opportunity to discuss this very subject with a research scientist who had spent most of his professional career leading a research group that studied lightning, it's effects (more properly known as 'induced voltages'), and how to protect people, and sensitive electronic equipment from it, particularly in aircraft and buildings. When I asked him about 'ball lightning', his response was unequivocal. He had never seen it, did not know of anyone who had, and did not believe that there was any evidence for it. When I described some of the anecdotes surrounding this phenomenon to him, he simply responded "that's impossible". After thinking for a moment, he added "well, it's very unlikely". When a scientist, who has been working in a specialised field such as this for 30 years of his career, says something is "very unlikely", then I think you can be certain that it is exactly that.

@@richie1326 you've never met me, but I will say that I have seen ball lightning. This was back when I was a kid. It came into our house through the kitchen window above the sink

richie1326 my mom and I experienced ball lightening in a Summer electric storm in the early 90s, in Damascus, Oregon. All the widows were open she was in the kitchen cooking dinner and I was in the living room - right next to the kitchen, I was talking on a cordless phone. There was a deafening crack, the cordless phone went dead and I looked at my mom and there was a bluish white glowing ball about the size of a volleyball between she and I. we had enough time to make eye contact she told me to put the phone down and get away from it, and with that another deafening crack rang out, and it was gone... no sign of anything. my sister was in college for biology at OSU and she reached out to her professors asking what the heck it was. The consensus was ball lightening- they gave us a few copied articles in regards to it. the idea then was a concentrated ball of nitrogen.

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There are a few video's and pictures, but only one or two have been deemed "legit". Problem is that there are so many fraudulent videos to figure out which ones might be reality and which ones might be fiction.

@@Chiphunk Please link to the legit videos.

dude it's quick. it's stunning and goes away as quickly as it appears.

I've never seen one, either. But, maybe it has something to do with the fact that many of them are witnessed during flights. Due to the limited space, probably, it won't last that long (not as long as that footage from Norway). Also, most airlines have strict rules about signal-emitting devices, and so. -Usually, I won't touch my phone on a plane, solely based on the fear of dying when the 747 switches-off autopilot because of me, trying to send a text-. However, the best guess I got, is this: Those events are more-likely to happen at some places than others. Since the particular conditions which give rise to them are very locally specific, just like a tornado, an earthquake, the auroras, etc.