15 MOST Mysterious Landforms

[@tonytdyagain]

Devil's Towers reminds me of a giant petrified tree stump. Can't unsee that now.

[@goodday23456]

Yes, but it also reminds me of a giant dirt dobber bee's house.

[@logicalmalethink4925]

When have you seen a petrified tree stump

[@Liescomefromtheright]

A cedar, to be exact, but you're correct.

[@tonytdyagain]

@@logicalmalethink4925 In the Petrified Forest in Arizona. I don't recommend visiting in the summer though, quite scorching hot.

[@MiniLemmy]

Surprised there was no mention of Devils Tower being made famous by the movie ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’

[@madtabletopgamer3204]

1977 , good movie...

[@lylelaylin2912]

It was already a National Monument, they used it in the movie because it was already famous and odd

[@caledoniawarrior]

Only dummies learn geography from movies. It was known world wide by many people who never watched television or movies. To this day many people will not zombie veg in front of a television or movie screen.

[@caledoniawarrior]

Only dummies learn geography from movies. It was known world wide by many people who never watched television or movies. To this day many people will not zombie veg in front of a television or movie screen.

[@sueerickson9988]

The Giants Causeway looks like The Devil’s Postpile west of Mammoth Mountain in California. Volcanism & receding glaciers 😂

[@Timmycoo]

Pretty cool that in 1941, George Hopkins parachuted on top of The Devil's Tower. And ended up getting suck up there after his plan to use a rope to get down failed. He had to wait for a professional climber to come rescue him after a while of staying there with people dropping supplies from planes.

[@PatDK]

What is cool about that? Sounds like a lucky idiot… should have brought another chute and done a BASE jump

[@JaMorantfan420]

Bears lodge. The only devils are you foreigners

[@Kristy-x1t]

WY used to issue permits to climbers who wanted to climb to the top. I don't think they do anymore

[@nothanks3236]

@@Kristy-x1t They still do, not sure how many they hand out but people still regularly climb to the top in good weather. It's a mecca for climbers.

[@danielpaulson8838]

People come from around the world to climb it. And there are guide services there to boot if you want help and gear to the top and back down.

[@rickdeckard4213]

Devil's Tower. WTF! I Can't believe that you didn't mention Close Encounters of The Third Kind!

[@ivanivonovich9863]

That's where I landed my spacecraft! Now play the five tones!

[@trillioncrowns]

they are all ancient tree stumps

[@denniss9718]

😂

[@ycarips9137]

Xylem is a system of tissues in trees that transports water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves: Structure Xylem is made up of long, narrow cells that are no longer alive, but whose cell walls remain intact to form a pipeline for water. Xylem is found in the roots, trunk, branches, and foliage of trees. Function Xylem also provides mechanical strength to the tree, acting like a backbone. Storage Xylem stores starch, which is the tree's energy bank. Trees need stored starch to perform normal functions, especially to break dormancy. Water storage and release Xylem stores and releases water in response to fluctuating water potentials, such as during transpiration.

[@franks4973]

You need to be current with the science. Devils tower is a well known and explained place. The land was massively eroded at end of the younger dryas.

[@garethfarman9540]

Even knowing the truth, it still belongs on a list like this. Unless, of course, it is a really common occurance

[@fl00d69]

Show me another it's like...? -exactly.

[@RR98guy]

Devils tower is a giant tree trunk that is petrified

[@garethfarman9540]

@@RR98guy explain the hexagonal structures and why no tree. No tree, extinct or extant have ever shown that pattern.

[@ivanivonovich9863]

@@RR98guy No it is not! It is a volcanic plug that the surrounding land has eroded around. The rock is Basalt! Petrified trees do not form from Basalt!

[@skatalyst00]

Hey, at 16.40, that's the star trek time portal! Take me to 1960's Joan Collins, please!

[@MichaeldeLancellotti]

Great video. Keep up the good work!

[@Highheels4ever]

Beautiful places with gorgeous scenery. Love this video, it is very interesting and informative. ♥️♥️👍👍

[@riasapta4109]

That boulders are giant fruits petrified 🧐

[@AkatsukiLink]

The "Devil's Tower" looks more like the rest of a giant tree trunk than anything else lol. Maybe it is what it is left from the Tree of Life, Yggdrasil.

[@ivanivonovich9863]

What it looks like is irrelevant! Facts are the only explanation for this Basalt formation.

[@TheHighest-x6k]

​@@ivanivonovich9863No one on earth can repeat this process. Try to cool lava down and see if it forms these almost perfect hexagonal columns. This seems to me biology not geology.

[@ivanivonovich9863]

@@TheHighest-x6k Then you need to visit eastern Washington & the Columbia river gorge...The basalt was buried deep and cooled down very slowly. It is not "organic!"Science knows how and why this formation occurred, show me another formation that has this, and is "organic!"

[@kirbywaite1586]

Was it cut down using a gigantic prehistoric saw?

[@paulmiddleton8699]

If you know about the Giants Causeway why did you say the the Devils Tower is a unique rock formation?

[@JPOwantstoknow65]

Exactly

[@angellicaramirez697]

Cool!

[@danielobrien1571]

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[@jp9548]

​@@danielobrien1571bro what da hell

[@danielobrien1571]

@@jp9548 I admire women with luxurious long hair and find them beautiful.

[@RockyMountains0721]

If you ever find yourself in the Black Hills region, then take the drive to nearby Northeast Wyoming to go see Devils Tower. The loop trail around Devils Tower is an amazing hike that is well worth doing!

[@blankvrs]

Uluru in Australia needs to be added.

[@tonysmith2045]

How tall was the giant that cut this down????

[@TJ-o7f]

Big enough to cut it down.

[@ivanviehoff6025]

Columnar basalt (Devil's Tower, Giant's Causeway), isn't particularly uncommon, or mysterious. It forms when the cooling conditions for a contained body of magma are within range for the jointing to form. It most frequently results from submarine and subglacial fissure eruptions, as that tends to supply the necessary cooling conditions more frequently than subaerial vulcanism, though the latter isn't ruled out. But that's why you see so very many examples of it in Iceland. The Devil's Tower is truly spectacular. But the Giant's Causeway is pretty ordinary by the standards of the numerous examples I have seen elsewhere, and I wouldn't put it on this list.

[@ivanivonovich9863]

You should check out the Columbia River/ gorge basalt flows... Lots of columns.

[@audreysimeon1111]

Mount Roraima is also the inspiration for the lost world plateau in Arthur Conan Doyle's book of the same name

[@abigailfoster2467]

You can see evidence of The Flood in the landforms all though this video. I don’t know why it’s such a mystery.

[@dfw6126]

its only a mystery because people do not want to admit the truth, which is Noah's flood written in the Bible, its crazy how people always turn to aliens to explain a mystery. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, see its not that hard to say.😄

[@denniss9718]

OMG…stupid people!

[@peterbear4413]

Show me that evidence. Oh, right. You can’t.

[@lylelaylin2912]

Oh man

[@denniss9718]

@@abigailfoster2467 , really??? Where are the corals? Where are flood deposits?

[@StephMcW]

Thank you, thank you for including the science behind these instead of trying to chalk it up to aliens.

[@bongwelll]

Those stone spheres look an awful lot like the stone spheres in Costa Rica.

[@verbiecaldwell4866]

I have always said these were giant trees stumps.

[@Gareth-y6h]

Hexagonal rock forms are created when lava cools

[@nothanks3236]

It's called 'columnar jointing' by geologists. Yes, it happens with lava, but can also happen with ash and pyroclastic flows as they cool. The cooling is the important bit, as it contracts the material - from the outside in - as it cools down, creating fractures.

[@murphy1094]

😂😂😂😂 bs it doesn't. If you zoom into a trees stump guess what..... hexagons.just like in nature

[@Gareth-y6h]

@@nothanks3236 THANK YOU... Nice to see there are people reading these replies with some knowledge, unlike @murphy1094 🤪...😂

[@TheHighest-x6k]

​@@nothanks3236 If that was the case, wouldn't we find this with all volcanic eruptions after they cool down? Are you guys even sane?

[@nothanks3236]

@@TheHighest-x6k To answer your question, yes. After 20 million years of erosion. Read a book bro.

[@janaiello722]

Nope… it’s a tree stump.

[@TheRavenLord1]

I find the whole tree stump theory amusing. Cause it would mean if it were what it says it is, that would’ve mean it had to stretch into the atmosphere, close to it, or above it. Just not even sure who thought this nutty theory or how it got any following.

[@janaiello722]

@ well, the first dinosaurs were found about 1800 or so. Give that some thought.

[@ulrichenevoldsen8371]

​@@janaiello722what does discovery of dinosaurs have to do with it?

[@seanhewitt603]

Nope, you're on drugs.

[@Maxtyur]

Tree made of rock ok well 😂😂😂😂

[@davidbowerman6433]

all of these have perfectly accepted explanations. his line about "some problems" are only by people that are NOT geologists and usually trying to make them fit some narrative.

[@raymondm.9954]

Seems like an obvious connection between the Giant's Causeway and Devil's Tower. I think the mountain in South America (why so mysterious about its precise location?) was the inspiration for "The Lost World," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which he had dinosaurs living up there.

[@darkzak47]

“You can’t walk 3 feet without stepping on a sacred rock or something”

[@phillipransom8920]

I don't know if they're all that mysterious, but thank you for not calling them "horrifying" or "terrifying." And thanks for NO ASMR or ASRM or whatever that is.

[@AbAb-th5qe]

2:26 It's a volcanic plug. The Giant's Causeway in Ireland has similar geometric formations, Which are from how the rock cooled slowly.

[@SmilingOutdoorGrill-np3xp]

Huge tree stump.

[@stevenmagdefrau158]

My wife and I visited the park this past summer. We walked around the rock in just a hour or so. Not so bad. Lots of tall pine trees. Many had been blown down. Lots of strips of rags tied to tree branches. Locale native attempt to show interest in park. I dropped a candy wrapper for my part. We saw rock climbers on the side of the cliff. The park’s store workers were not friendly, but made change for my purchase. Fun time. Not great.

[@Kristy-x1t]

@@stevenmagdefrau158 Go to Thermopolis next time. There are hot springs/pool and there's a restaurant called The Safari Club which is owned by the guy in town with all the bison. Unless you're a vegan.. don't go there if you're vegan. The walls are decorated with big game trophy's and pictures of the owner's safari trips😂 But super nice people! BTW, the reason I go to WY is BECAUSE of the nice people(compared to Denver). Sorry your trip was adequate.

[@REBELS-SLNDERMAN]

Devils Tower is an old volcano long gone extinct, the rock formations on the side are the same as in northwestern Europe where their are more extinct volcanoes, most notably the giants causeway in Ireland

[@DogSerious]

It's a giant tree stump of the pre flooded world. Only fools say otherwise!

[@celloprof]

The problem is that unfortunately, volcanoes dont form like that. Lava doesnt move that way and cant.

[@REBELS-SLNDERMAN]

@@celloprof Look it up dude

[@pudmina]

@@celloprof Yes they do. It is a vertical basalt intrusion that remains after the softer surrounding stone was eroded. No mystery there ... only in your mind :(

[@danielpaulson8838]

@@celloprof Imagine the softer eroded rock and soil that it once pushed up through still being there. The crust, once thousands of feet thicker. (Ever hear of the Grand Canyon) The lava forms upward and look at the shape. Just like it's pushing through a huge dirt hole, thousands of feet thick. Which is actually thin for the earths crust.. Cue erosion and millions of years, plate tectonics and , oh why bother. Humans today know everything without learning anything. How embarrassing for humanity at large to have such ignorance being so rampant. Reality is just too hard for most people. They think everything exists for them and on their scale.

[@RichNickerson-mx7zv]

It is phonolite porphyry rock. Formed and cooled underground, then thrust up due to seismic activity. Not a tree stump. Definitely a sight to see

[@matthewczajka6529]

Definitely looks like a giant tree that has fossilized.

[@ivypixley7451]

If it was a tree that big wonder how much oxygen it would produce daily

[@shiroonline532]

Been to devils tower multiple times, its a petrified tree stump.

[@es5696]

It is the core of an ancient volcano

[@flynnoldman3542]

The giants causeway and the devils tower look similar.

[@jimslancio]

There's also a hexagonal basalt formation in California, called the Devil's Postpile.

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

Howdy from Temple, Texas, USA!

[@ycarips9137]

Giant petrified tree trunks leave behind Xylem.

[@ycarips9137]

The sapwood layer consists of xylem. Xylem is a system of cells that carry water and minerals up from the ground and roots. Essential water is transported through the tree and aids in the photosynthetic process that happens through the leaves.

[@benquinneyiii7941]

A tree stump

[@TheAnarchitek]

A massive amount of water poured over northeastern WY, coming out of eastern MT, flooding the basin of central Wyoming, washing away the flanks of the ancient volcano that had surrounded the lava tube, the way a similar body of onrushing water would strip away the flanks of Shiprock, or Tsé Bitʼaʼí, when all that water reached northeastern New Mexico, probably hours, or possibly days, later.

[@nothanks3236]

Yeah stopped after Devil's Tower. The geology is fairly straightforward, there isn't much mystery once you see the columnar basalt up close. It is a volcanic plug - lava that cooled inside the volcano, at depth; and then later the volcano, and then the land itself eroded from around the dense, hard basalt. There are examples of volcanic plugs all over the world, it's not uncommon. Just uncommon to see one that still has the symmetry of the surrounding magma conduit to such a degree.

[@Kendalorian1]

The devil's tower is actually the stump of the world tree. It was cut down during Ragnarok by a giant fire giant hence the flat top.

[@ChrisSpeake]

Some of those are trees that have been petrified

[@jimslancio]

The Channeled Scablands in Washington state ought to be included.

[@darinwood2183]

Yes! I’ve lived here my entire life, I’m 63, and the Channeled Scablands is still amazing. The Columbia Gorge too.

[@tonyvolpino3231]

A geologist can explained easily, nothing inexplicable 😂

[@sammyvillena9777]

Devil's Tower = The Erd Tree.

[@NewCreatureActs2-38]

Devil's tower is a cut down pre flood tree.

[@denniss9718]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@qualitysacks4774]

Sees something unusual Yeah that's a volcanic activity

[@bubbalo3388]

There is a lake by where I live that is crystal clear. It's a man made reservoir. Yoi can see clear to the bottom and see the trees. Cool but eerie at the same time.

[@NewCreatureActs2-38]

Those are cut down pre flood trees!!!

[@derrickcox7761]

This full,of misinformation.

[@danielpaulson8838]

You are full of nothing.

[@derrickcox7761]

@danielpaulson8838 you are full of farts.

[@133Nomad]

Explain.

[@waynelevi5053]

​@@derrickcox7761like what?

[@abigailfoster2467]

Those hexagons on Devil’s Tower definitely look volcanic. Same as the Giant’s Causeway. Basalt.

[@murphy1094]

😂😂😂😂 i hope youre joking

[@TheHighest-x6k]

​@@murphy1094These folks don't have minds of their own. They're just repeating whatever the "experts" tell them so don't waste your time.

[@jcmick8430]

Are plant cells hexagonal?

[@John-l9t2j]

Jack and the bean stalk hello

[@duckyorwell9416]

Devil's tower totally not an ancient tree.. cough cough ff íng cough

[@Mondarsh-w6t]

Earth is awesome, I will miss Earth...

[@caledoniawarrior]

Volcanic plugs are all through the rockies. One looks down on blackcanyon city Arizona and Prescott Arizona has one too.

[@TJ-o7f]

Those are all tree stumps

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

14:18 Would not want one of THOSE houses!

[@Cslightworker]

Devils tower is an ancient tree stump that the giants chopped down.😅

[@eugenegifford2800]

What's to say that the ice cap of the last ice age covered that area and when the volcanic eruption happen it was instantly cooled

[@kahla3363]

Can't see the forest through all the water, I guess.

[@MistiPatrella]

They are old giant tree stumps. Couple of channels talk about it. Not really a mystery anymore. Question is, who cut them down? They are all straight cut offs. Crazy.

[@TJ-o7f]

Our ancestors cut them down

[@KatyAbbott-v6o]

Totally a petrified tree. In person it really does look a giant, cut down tree.

[@danacraig5348]

I noticed something askew in the surf. The first two sets were moving normal but the third set out was unmoving. WTF?

[@mrharembro1929]

best Minecraft spawns

[@Dale-v6o]

Devils Tower is a petrified tree stump from the days before the Great Flood of Noah.

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

That’s not how petrification works😂

[@denniss9718]

😂😂😂

[@Lebeauski]

Used to live in spearfish,SD... And have been there many times ..not a volcano, from my point of view

[@robertbarger6439]

For someone who wants to visit these places and cant afford to go well buy a xbox or pc and play Microsoft flight simulator you can thank me later

[@redsoxfox]

Those cylinder rocks look like wire, like when you see big gauge wire bunched together. They probably are ancient cunductors. They say the ancient times used the earths sound waves for energy

[@nevillemills9517]

It's easy to see its a tree stump. But who cut it off?

[@Ralph_Cornell]

I think this is the lava dome of an old volcano.

[@sglancy1]

The devil's tower, back when trees were trees and men were men.

[@DogSerious]

And, when the Earth was a perfect creation, now we live on it's carcase.

[@carolinegray7510]

😅 ❤

[@YoutubeISforMORONSlikeYOU]

Is it hard to breath? I need my brain for it, must be challenging without 1!

[@mikem5861]

hasn't any one ever seen a petrified tree before. I have seen plenty on them in the state of Washington with the same formations, Also crumbling apart like this tree is

[@Kristy-x1t]

I knew a old old timer from WY. He was a mineral collector and he had pieces of volcanic pipes from the Red Desert. On the inside of the fragments was something that looked exactly like a grey amber. Many had organic material in them, one had a moth. The outside were black and clearly there were 2 distinctly different minerals, not lava

[@saad-t7k]

1:35 it looks like "Panská skála" in our country.

[@TJ-o7f]

The earth is covered with giant tree stumps. In fact the earth is a giant tree stump.

[@jaykanta4326]

This is too stupid. Devil's Tower is columnar basalt from a lave cone that was pushed upwards and the dirt around it eroded. You can see columnar basalt all over the world. It's not unexplained.

[@TJ-o7f]

The earth is a giant mine pit that sits on top of a giant tree stump

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

14:50 "Girls On Tour Women Only Travel"? Weird.

[@kycone]

What’s weird about that? Sometimes women want to go on a tour and not be bothered or sexually harassed by men that don’t control their behavior. It’s not uncommon.

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

@kycone 😂😂😂🫵 Women-only businesses tend to not be in business very long.

[@markmcghee3486]

​@@kyconemen are a bother and all sexual harrasers ?! 😂 shall I begin with generalisations of women ?!! 😂😂 lbh as a woman it's only okay when your the one doing the tearing down huh ? 😉 females are just as bad as males 😂😆 kindly don't ever dare ask a male to do anything for you again, you don't deserve it with your outlook 😌 And I agree with O.P, given no one else can visit without research purposes it's strange that a random group of women "on tour" are there

[@jimgreen5788]

Top Fives, Mt. Roraima is on the border with guy-AH-nah, not ghee-AH-nah, though in past decades, its name was British Guiana, and had your pronunciation. The old TV program, The Lost World, was supposedly letting us see a lost place where dinosaurs still live. Back years ago, I visited Taal Lake in the Philippines, so I know that it's pronounced tah-AHL.

[@silverrain48]

Why the wobbly and blurred segments? Makes it see very amateurish.

[@freewheelinfranklin6201]

Most Mysterious Landforms. . . 24:22 Isla Bermeja, Mexico an Island that isn't there. Could have shown Hy Brasil, West of Ireland also an island that isn't there but is on some old maps.

[@OzzieDeWitt]

Where's Uluru / Ayres Rock or Kata Tjuta in Central Australia ?????? Surely they deserve some coverage here. Sacred to Aboriginal belief systems and quite astonishing how they jut out of the surrounding flat desert. They should be included here.

[@TJ-o7f]

The boulders are petrified turtle eggs

[@nightdevil6666]

Mannnnn the devils tower is the world tree and yall know it.

[@Warriori2i]

d/tower petrified bone from a giant leg as the word says they had their heads in the clouds ...that's a tall giant ...

[@markmcghee3486]

Finding life elsewhere in the solar system like Mars (ok) Jupiter and Saturn? (Right, now that's a stretch 😅)

[@Kog_media]

Tree stump! Seen thousands in Greenland, some are 2km tall from sea bottom to top. Also, in Japan underwater, Africa, Ireland, bottom of the North Sea, and across the mudplains of the Arctic Ocean. The largest stumps, though, are in South Greenland coastal plains. Some are sticking out of the inland ice, so there are still forests. Remember that 7 miles of water pressure from the great flood petrified and calcified carbon to stone within 2 months. I grew up across the fjord from 30 tree stumps reaching 1200 to 1500 meters above sea-level, massive cliffs that put Yosemite to shame... their petrified seeds are scattered all over the place, as big as minivans 😇

[@bethbartlett5692]

Perhaps "Stone Tree" actually is the correct description ...(a fossilized Ancient Tree from a very Ancient Time, considering the mega trees in California, it isn't that remote a possibility.

[@jaredharris1940]

No mysteries here!

[@mrvayne01]

Devil's tower is what was left inside an old magma tube which later dissolved. Also known as a laccolith. There's no problem with this explanation or the shape of the rock columns making up the feature. Not carved by beings of any kind.

[@jcmick8430]

Those were trees

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

Mirage Island

[@larkspur5878]

Petrified trees

[@titan42737]

It’s just Ymir’s shadow

[@dianethornton5993]

Pre Noah's flood - atmosphere different from today - massive trees and more....

[@denniss9718]

😂

[@geoffmorgan2794]

15: Must be all that carbon in the water?

[@inspectre69]

Silicon transfers into the material over time replacing the biological structure with chemical rhombus shapes as it crystalized.