Strange Mysteries Found in Nature

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[@proto-geek248]

Pretty interesting stuff there, Simon.

[@Wombats555]

Nice break from the more gruesome stuff. I love both but sometimes it's a list of depressing things :)

[@dalebaker9533]

Simon it's counties NOT countries!!! 🙄

[@jacobfoster9185]

Crazy that you have this today..I experienced one yesterday. We all thought it was going to be a MASSIVE thunder storm but it was clear skies..mostly and only one "clap"... shook the entire building and broke some windows all over the city. Not huge but around 300,000 people in the city limits.

[@ryvyr]

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[@TheJAADF]

I'm working in the Institute of Dendrology in Poland, and we have replanted genetic clones if the trees from the Crooked Forest in our experimental forest. They all have grown crooked!

[@lisilucyinski9455]

WOW. ❤ from Australia mate

[@lisilucyinski9455]

Any ideas WHY

[@lisilucyinski9455]

Bio student

[@TheJAADF]

@@lisilucyinski9455 It's likely an unindentified genetic malfunction

[@tobio1988]

Can you send me a link to your work? I am a forestry scientist and we all know about this mystery.

[@tovarischkrasnyjeshi]

Not exactly an expert on sand or anything, but ime E is just a natural harmonic resonance of many objects, including glass/quartz, which sand basically is. It's salient if you spend a lot of time playing low notes in the key of E, which for pianists is a pretty easy key. Sometimes the whole room can just start vibrating - it's annoying when you're after a nice clear sound.

[@canis2020]

It's not the fact they make the notes, it's why does it sound intentional?

[@randomsandwichian]

I'm guessing the harmonics or at least the assumed musical qualities of those sand vibrations comes not just from the different heights of dunes, but also how far and wide the desert breeze carries sound, resonance, etc. Ie. how much of the many variables can be captured/recorded in each moment over that period of time isn't going to be constant, I can assume.

[@semaj_5022]

​@@canis2020 It sounds intentional because that's what were used to hearing. Almost any time we hear clear, concise notes and harmonics, it's because a person is intentionally playing them. So if you happen to hear something like that "out in the wild," so to speak, your brain will use what it is familiar with to understand and contextualize the sound. A natural occurrence is just that: natural. There are so many different things that happen naturally around the world every day that at least some of those phenomena are bound to remind us of something we humans do.

[@danielgertler5976]

I hate sand. It's rough, course and iritating, and it gets everywhere.

[@pakde8002]

Several necessary elements were mentioned, sand, degree and height of incline and temperature. Seems like scientists could easily duplicate the phenomenon if they really want to.

[@Caleb1874ya]

The scientists trying to recreate sound of sand in lab is a FANTASTIC opportunity to RICK ROLL with hilarity.

[@phantomechelon3628]

*holds a microphone to the petri dish* "...Never gonna give you up...never gonna let you down..." 😆

[@DFSJR1203]

Back in 1967 or 68 our family was out in our pool when we heard the biggest bang. The sky had no clouds. The airports (Newark, JFK, La Guardia) saw nothing on radar and McGuire AFB also said no jets were flying that would have caused a sonic boom. It made the news on both the New York and Philly TV Stations. The TV channels just called it a Sky Quake. That was the first time I ever heard of this.

[@Vaeldarg]

Wonder if "sky quakes" are actually "air bursts". Meteors exploding in the air resulting in damage like that area in Russia have made people worry about large ones, but maybe these quakes are caused by smaller ones occurring too high up to leave much evidence?

[@Etymon-jt3zw]

If it was the sixties it was probably the plane known as the blackbird. By time you hear the Sonic Boom it could be a 1000 miles away. And at the time it was the highest flying plane the US had and they didn't even admit having it for almost another 20 years.

[@dehydratedwater9806]

@@Etymon-jt3zw and even if the airport was aware of the SR-71 they wouldn't have admitted it.

[@rgerber]

@@Etymon-jt3zw if flying at an altitude of say 25 kilometers it would be more like 65km

[@LeoHKepler]

"Misfired" has to be the most polite and hilarious way I've heard that described. Admittedly thats the first I've heard it described...

[@thomasm7682]

We just had a “sky quake” today here in Maryland. The Department of Defense released a statement acknowledging it was them breaking the sound barrier.

[@bdbgh]

I've experienced a "skyquake" before, clear day and then a really loud and long thunder that shook my open house window, apparently people in a roughly 50km2 area heard it at about the same loudness and length, the meteorological department in my country just shrug and said they don't know.

[@Vaeldarg]

Meteorological department: "What do we look like, scientists?"

[@gobblinal]

Is it possible to be "invisible" lightning? During the day at least? Lightning doesn't need clouds just some way of building up a charge in an area that somehow discharges to another area. Can't imagine how that would work though. Wind somehow pulling loose electrons from a forest into a mountainside?

[@theoneandonlyguyallikian1190]

​@gobblinal A rogue lightning strike that strayed far enough from its original storm cloud that no one saw where it initially came from seems far more likely than a "sky quake".

[@trli7117]

@The one and only Guy Allikian considering "Sky quake" just means loud unexplained noise coming from the sky, it *would be* a sky quake. Since any instance of "rogue lightning" would be a sky quake. Sky quakes're by default more likely than Rogue lightning because all rogue lightning is a sky quake but not all sky quakes are rogue lightning. Some are sonic booms or meteorites breaking up in atmosphere.

[@thatfuzzypotato1877]

Now I'm wondering if the time I heard a loud explosion with no source was a skyquake. I remember I ducked behind my car, other people hid too. No one could find a source. We assumed it was a transformer but there was no power outage

[@ratsumatra3003]

The sky quakes sound like the sonic booms when the space shuttle would land. Two quick LOUD shotgun blasts that shook our house everytime. Childhood memories...

[@blackenedheart9592]

Those loud booms are common in North Carolina. I've heard them before and it was so loud it rattled the entire house i was living in at the time. I asked my dad about it and he said it's very common and he's been hearing them his whole life. I looked them up online and they date back to the late 1700s! So at first i thought it was from jets cause there are a lot of military bases in North Carolina but that doesn't explain how people have been hearing them since before North Carolina was even a state!

[@UnicornsPoopRainbows]

I wonder if the local indigenous population has any stories about them

[@blackenedheart9592]

@@UnicornsPoopRainbows probably.

[@tiki_trash]

Maybe it's some sort of thunderclap from a different form of lightning we haven't been able to study. Instead of lightning bolts it's some sort of electrical potential over a large area that instantaneously discharges. The fact that many of these occurrences happen over lakes would make sense. But hey, I'm just guessing here 🤷‍♂

[@blackenedheart9592]

@@tiki_trash where I'm from in Eastern north Carolina there are no lakes in that area

[@tiki_trash]

@@blackenedheart9592 Well, God must bowling then, I dunno. They mentioned lakes in the video. What do I know?

[@littleman8674469]

I know that there's counties in Alabama but I'm not so sure about countries😂😂

[@jackmason5278]

There apparently are at least five.

[@chiphausl]

Roll Tide

[@katieskarlette]

I witnessed a skyquake in Wisconsin back in the mid 1990s! It rattled the windows and was heard all over town late one evening. Police looked around for a possible explosion somewhere, and it got a blurb in the local newspaper, but no answers were ever found. I chalked it up to a military aircraft that happened to do a sonic boom over my city, but it always intrigued me.

[@golferorb]

Where in Wisconsin?

[@katieskarlette]

@@golferorb Eau Claire

[@sethchapman8001]

The last story about the lights, NC USA has a very similar phenomenon called the "Brown Mountain Lights".

[@codypickell9299]

As an American, I love hearing things like "15 countries in Alabama" 😂👍 always a good show though, no matter which one of his channels it is. 👌

[@weedfreer]

It wasn't just me who noticed that then! 😊

[@peterreily1490]

I just started the video and went “he ain’t wrong, Alabama is indeed 15 countries”… and I’m from the south. Just not the garbage can of the nation aka Alabama. Not the shitter aka Mississippi. True southern class were the most founding fathers that became presidents came from.

[@jimrohrer2751]

I've through bama before and I'm pretty certain Simon is correct here... Each country has it's own collection of junk, and dialect describing said junk. 😂😂

[@duncanfeyd4056]

"Americans are ignorant, and can't even use the language correctly...."

[@TheMunchkinita2509]

Only came to the comments to see how far I'd have to scroll before seeing this mentioned... it was the first one 😂

[@Some1outthere]

Loved the video. Just wanted to share that there is a stand of "crooked" aspens in Hafford Saskatchewan Canada as well

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

Ah Nature, always strangely mysterious!

[@skyless_moon]

Regarding the hessdalen lights, I will paraphrase skeptoid on this one: "As previously discussed on other Skeptoid episodes dealing with so-called ghost lights - the Marfa Lights in Texas, the Min Min Light in Australia, and the Brown Mountain Lights in North Carolina - there are known physical phenomena that can account for such reports. A better way to investigate the Hessdalen phenomenon would be to at least consider the causes found for these other lights. The Min Min light was proven to be a sort of thermal lensing effect, where warm air collected in ground topography underlaid cooler night air, and reflected lights from over the horizon; an effect we call a superior mirage. However the Marfa and Brown Mountain lights turned out to be misidentifications of conventional lights in a direct line of sight, probably distorted by similar lensing effects. Such thermal irregularities were found in both places. In the case of Marfa, they were car headlights along two prominent highways. At Brown Mountain, it was the headlight of a regularly scheduled locomotive on the plain far away, as well as some other lights. The majority of the images captured by the Hessdalen automated measurement station look exactly like the high-powered landing lights of aircraft following the corridor north from the Tolga VOR."

[@skyless_moon]

@Cancer McAids You are right it can't be a single mirage, but it's not unusual at all and I quote again from skeptoid: So let's wrap up what we've learned about the two different manifestations of the Brown Mountain Lights. Regarding those that appear in the sky above a ridge, it's apparent that the 1922 USGS report solved it as described in the following conclusion. Today, nearly 90 years later, the lights are coming from different sources but this analysis probably still holds up: "In summary it may be said that the Brown Mountain lights are clearly not of unusual nature or origin. About 47 percent of the lights that the writer was able to study instrumentally were due to automobile headlights, 33 percent to locomotive headlights, 10 percent to stationary lights, and 10 percent to brush fires."

[@pugachevskobra5636]

There’s a reason why so many of these supposedly supernatural light events can be replicated using headlights and it’s because they are just headlights.

[@PathfinderBill]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos Simon! The last segment about the strange lights might actually give some scientific truths to something in my neck of the woods. Before you judge the name, I would love to see you decode the unknown about the Hornet or Joplin "Spook Lights" near Joplin, Missouri. Much like those lights in the video, the lights there react to the climate and change colors: reds, orangish shades in the warmer months and cooler colors like blues and greens in the fall and winter months. They have been documented in the area for over a hundred and sixty years. Thank you again for all that you do my friend!

[@stephenhill6003]

I've heard there are similar lights in the mountains of North Carolina.

[@markmitchell457]

​@@stephenhill6003 and Amarillo TX.

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

Interesting stuff I've never heard of within two hours of my house. Neat!

[@pugachevskobra5636]

All of the really famous “strange light phenomena” events have been solved as of 2023; The Marfa Lights, Paulding Lights, Brown Mountain etc. They turned out to be headlights in every single instance 😂

[@stephenhill6003]

@@pugachevskobra5636 Yep, probably even more so today given how bright headlights are.

[@QBCPerdition]

Crooked trees, in my experience, are usually due to wind or heavy snow bending or breaking the trees when young and the trees trying to recover.

[@Caldwing]

This is such a weird coincidence. Just today I visited a park I used to play in as a kid over 30 years ago, in northern British Columbia. There was just exactly such a tree in this park right outside our back fence. It's all been cleared from pine beetle now so it's long gone sadly. My father is a forester (now retired) and he believed that either it broke as a sapling, as you say, or possibly grew out from under an old log that has since rotted away.

[@willroland7153]

Yes, often found on ridge lines between two different mountain structures, where weather patterns come together and make it a pretty volatile place.

[@aliciaaustin8373]

Here in Eastern North Carolina, you will find bent trees in the forest but they are trail markers made by the native Americans.

[@mikenco]

This video was frustrating as it was fascinating. We need answers!! ;) I have wood-turned a section of Scot's Pine that had a 90 degree bend in it, just like in that forest. I also grow bonsai. I am 100% convinced that bending those young saplings at a certain age when they are still flexible, then allowing them to grow out is what caused that. It was likely a strong storm, during in which it snowed hard. The snow would have compacted and remained there for a few months, holding those saplings in the bent shape, which is all it takes to cause a permanent bend in a young tree branch. You can do this yourself using a bit of wire and a sapling. Find a sapling, wrap the wire around the trunk. Then leave it for at least three months. Remove the wire and the branch will have a permanent bend in it.

[@masa461]

a large tree fell and pinned the young saplings around it to the ground? The tree rotted away over time, and the saplings grew in this crooked shape.

[@lulujanuary]

That's cool

[@blur911]

I know a place at the edge of a bay, the snowdrifts get 20 feet tall, the trees grow like this: i.postimg.cc/HW34g6TN/P-20190623-135546.jpg That's #5

[@doclewis8927]

FOR "DECODING THE UNKNOWN": Could you do a show on the "Marfa Lights"?

[@arlenedavis5770]

Don't get your hopes up. I believe they recently debunked it as distant cars, despite there having been reports dating back before cars were ever a thing.

[@aick]

The trees? It was tank battalions, they've gone through the records enough that I'm convinced.

[@scottnunnemaker5209]

I think if I heard a “sky quake” I’d just assume it was thunder or a plane going supersonic.

[@shitty80smovielover]

Love this!! More of this please❤

[@deltatango6793]

I commented this on another similar video about the crooked trees… But I’ve done this to my sunflowers many times… I would argue that all of the trees that are crooked are growing from an underground seed or cone or whatever the heck… And then somebody is marking the spots where they are planting the tree with a rock… A small pebble, even, would do it… I do this all the time with my sunflowers, and then they grow crooked and distorted, and I always try to set the rock in a place that will just help me remember WHERE the sunflower is, not really trying to block it’s growth, but I seem to screw it up all the time. So I would argue all of the crooked trees were planted at or around the same time by the same group of people or with the same approach, therefore the same ish age, and they’re all grown from underground and not from a baby tree.

[@tinaroberts5858]

Sky quakes, ice quakes. Thunderstorms. Just enjoy nature as long as no one is getting harmed. Personally, I enjoy a good Thunderstorm.

[@Tcrim354]

For years at 9:30am the back door of my classroom in Monetta, SC would shake like a sound wave came through it. My students and I would hear it and also would wait for it to happen.

[@bobshepard47]

Star jelly appears a few times a year on my driveway. Every time it has appeared, there was heavy rainfall a day or so beforehand.

[@arlenedavis5770]

That's a really weird coincidence. Got any theories on what it might be?

[@phantomechelon3628]

@@arlenedavis5770 God rubbing one out... 😆 Either that or alien snot...

[@timbert4672]

I've seen that, Crooked Forest" effect here in the UK as well and always with planted trees, there's a lot of pine tree crops here which is where I see it the most. I personally think it is caused by the tubes placed around the saplings to protect them as they grow as the prevailing wind direction will not begin to influence how the tree grows until it outgrows the height of the tube, then it will increase in girth and force the tube apart, creating this odd effect when the very base of the trunk is revealed. It is just a theory I had but I thought it worth mentioning.

[@gregwunderlich4253]

Saw another KZbin video about the trees claiming that they were made by native Americans as trail markers.

[@blairwilson7386]

I've seen them along the roadside on the way to Campbeltown in Scotland.

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

The Hessdalen lights almost seem like a form of radioactive electricity due to the fact they’ve measured up to 19kw of electricity in the lights while they also they kill all microorganisms in the dirt they make contact with

[@pamelamays4186]

Another strange mystery found in nature. The epic growth of Simon's (and Daven's) beard.🧔🧔

[@VulgarAttenborough]

Wow, there are so many mysteries in nature, and so little time to narrate them. Thank you, Sideprojects. 10:23 I can’t wait to apply star jelly to my entire body. In light of the information in this video, I’m currently writing to you from a bush, waiting for a willing deer to pass by. Cheers!

[@australien6611]

Opening line .."As much as we'd like to believe there's order in the world around us" 😂 who here feels they have an orderly life in an ordinary world ?

[@amandajones661]

Around 1998 in Columbus Georgia, interestingly located right beside Alabama, we had a sky quake but the internet wasn't how it is now.

[@lyotesharaia4829]

MIssed a chance to call the sound in Alabama "The Alabooma"

[@jmanj3917]

3:33 Cool! I'm not Too too far from Seneca Lake...I'm in the Adirondacks now...I definitely need to look into this!..maybe I can hear one while I'm out looking for a sasquatch in the mountains.

[@leguile1]

Imagine having a powerplant in the future that's just made of forests. Power plant.

[@Narupup9654]

We actually have a few small groups of crooked trees here in Washington I've seen them in Bellevue

[@bryanmahnke805]

I'd be interested to know if new growth trees follow a similar pattern in the crooked forest. I'd expect them to grow straight, but you never know.

[@N8teyrve]

The singing dunes sounds like it might be linked to that whole theory about how they moved the giant stones used in the pyramids

[@nickkelley6582]

I live in a semi rural village in Wales and we experienced a different "skyquake" it was more like a slightly deeper 1950 movie ufo sound. You could feel the pulsing vibration on people's houses 🤔

[@Xonk61]

If I went to a cleared area in a field in which tree saplings have sprouted to a height of about a meter, the snipped off the top, and all the branches that were not the one pointing north, then return about 50 years later, I would have an area filled with trees that recovered from my pruning, and the branch on each that had been pointing north would then have grown upwards, making a "knee" where the top of the sapling had been pruned 50 years earlier.

[@martinstallard2742]

0:25 skyquakes 3:12 end of sponsorship 4:43 singing sands 6:53 crooked forests 9:08 star jelly 10:32 hessdalen lights

[@maikelfeskens9322]

Nobody asked you to do this, so back off

[@peterreily1490]

“People living across 15 countries in Alabama” I have to agree, alabama is multiple countries in itself.

[@NaDa-kw2fu]

Sky quakes - Meteor hitting the earths atmosphere at a very shallow angle and bouncing off. It is hypothesized that the Siberian Tunguska event 1908 was the same thing, given the lack of any crater or finding 'rock in the ground'. The laying flat of the trees gives an indication of the power of such an event.

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Stop that. It is no mystery. Those trees were shaped that way as bows for ships. Stop.

[@mavenous22]

Anyone else notice that when he says what skyquakes are called in other cultures they show a picture of Paris for Japan?

[@tinxe6821]

I've heard the cannon thunder before. Central Florida. Only once and it was super weird

[@BruceBoyde]

Oh boy did I need this after finishing the Into the Shadows about Sednaya.

[@phenderson20]

I live in Alabama about 80 miles from Birmingham and I have never heard of this story. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but it definitely wasn’t widely reported.

[@Monsoonpain]

Here in Houston...i've heard 1 single cannon fire type boom, on sunny days, around the same times (between 1 to 3pm ). 2 years ago in particular, I heard it weekly .

[@leaguemastergg3647]

7:22 I've heard it could be because of high winds in the area. 8:05 those trees looked like they may have been blown over in a big storm a while back

[@hgbugalou]

A microburst could create the localized damage noted here. This is my guess if they aren't man made.

[@MattCatt817]

The mysteries of earth are mind-blowing. There is so much we don’t know, and a lot we’ll probably never know. Much thanks to Simon and the team for making endless videos about them!

[@gangalo68]

If the “deer misfire” isn’t a lesson to never touch unknown stuff, I don’t know what is.

[@thecozyintrovert]

I wonder if sky-quakes have multiple causes and that's part of why nobody really knows. I just feel like a loud and random sound could be a lot of things.

[@Legionmint7091]

I always thought that a highly viable explanation for the crooked forest are shipbuilders experimenting to form the ship frames by manipulating the growth, most likely by using increasingly larger spirals of copper wire. When the experiment turned out to be flawed (because layers of wood actually is better) the metal was removed and reused elsewhere. We know that shipbuilders had an impressive forward planning for hundreds of years, so a tree shaping experiment is definitely not outside the realm of possibility, quite the contrary.

[@justinsamaroo3363]

Skyquakes are just undiscovered aliens zooming across our skies at high speeds ❤

[@QBCPerdition]

I wonder if Skyquakes are due to sound reflecting off a denser layer of air, similar to how AM radio can reflect off the upper atmosphere and thus be picked up thousands of miles away. Maybe there was an earthquake or loud peal of thunder far enough away that it wasn't felt or seen, but the sound waves reflected, maybe even amplified, to be heard on a clear day. Being over large bodies of water may being about these atmospheric conditions more readily. I live near Lake Winnebago, and the largish size of the kake definitely has effects on storms moving through the area. Often, a storm will be heading straight towards us, only to be deflected north or south as it nears the lake.

[@Shado_wolf]

We have leaning trees here in Western Australia, near Geraldton. They look they just decided to lay down and have a sleep 😅 the reason was pretty easy to work out though, they all lay in the same direction, and it's pretty windy up there. Still very weird to look at

[@isaacbenrubi9613]

The reason why those trees are bent like that is because Simon willed it.

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

Good one! But yeah I have no clue what caused the tree trunks to bend like that. I have read differing theories on it and they all pretty much have holes in them. I’m going to cop out and say it’s either something in the water or the soil. I am not a botanist or a tree scientist so I can’t give my own theory. I wish I could but this mystery of nature eludes me.

[@ilionreactor1079]

@@mirandagoldstine8548 That's what happens when you drive a bunch of tanks through a wet forest: bent trees.

[@trevdagg]

Willing nature to bend to his will for content

[@benlozier3290]

Your brain filters out all the other competing frequencies in order to maneuver the sand sounds into something it can manage. Best guess.

[@pamelamays4186]

Sky Quake. Could be the name of a hard rock band. Bama Bombs. Could be the name of an Alabama professional soccer team. Singing Sands. Could be name of a desert resort/spa. Crooked Forest. Could be the name of a spooky place in a fairy tale: "Don't go into the Crooked Forest, for ghosts, witches and other scary beings reside there." Star Jelly. What alien moms use to make PBJ sandwiches for their little alien children.

[@keirfarnum6811]

Star Jelly makes me think of something less wholesome. Like when Kpax does the dirty deed.

[@Werevampiwolf]

"Misfired Deer Semen" could be a grunge band

[@starrywizdom]

Good job, Jenna!

[@ProffesionalZombie12]

Okay I cannot make this up: It's a clear day for me. Right as I was watching this video, I heard a distant "boom" noise outside my house. Next thing I know a COLOSSAL gust of wind ripped through the neighborhood. Shook my house, I think it snapped the neighbor's tree, sent everything not tethered to the ground aloft. What the actual f*ck. Like, the meteorology nerd in me thinks it might have been a heat burst. But heat bursts usually don't happen in broad daylight and aren't preceded by a "boom" noise.

[@terrafirma5327]

What was the duration of the event?

[@keirfarnum6811]

Where are you? This just took place in the last 2 hours? It’s 4:43pm on the west coast right now (I’m in the Bay Area).

[@jasonmetzger3386]

Do a video about sky trumpets! So much Orr creepier than sky quakes

[@bjmelancon1951]

The Dancing Forest has to be where Home Depot gets the wood for their boards.

[@kevinmcniff7724]

Sand Mountain 35min drive east of Fallon, Nevada on US50 makes the sounds. If the conditions are right, get to the top of the mountain and jump down a few feet on the steep side. The cascading sand under you will briefly make the sound. And yes it is very cool. Low bass on a cello sounds about right.

[@MrKillerno1]

For a second I thought that Creaky Blinder was hosting this video, sorry man. Awesome video.

[@stevej9740]

It's hard to understand how loud booming sounds from the sky would make people scared and confused. Hey, once there was a lady hit by lightning on a cloudless day. She was walking in a parking lot and BAM!

[@yungdevi]

We need a video on “ball lightning”

[@frocat5163]

I like that Simon pronounced 'Birmingham' the way it's pronounced in the UK rather than the generally accepted US pronunciation: BIR-ming-HAM.

[@charlierice5756]

Have to wonder if the Hessdalen lights and the Marfa lights are the same thing.

[@Yupppi]

It feels like I'm watching a video I've watched already.

[@vodnikdubs1724]

I’m just here for the trees in the thumbnail cause I found very similar in a grove several miles out on an island in a large lake

[@FungusWolf]

I watched a spider set a web in a young pine tree I was growing, it completely changed the form of the main stem and tree once it was older. It started to make me wonder how many gnarly looking trees are actually spider art.

[@demonflowerchild]

LOVE THE BLUE BACKGORND

[@knudsandbknielsen1612]

About the trees growing in a twisted way: I sugggest that the prevailing wind may have changed locally in the years when the trees were young. Say, a western wind for two years, then from the east... Unless of course the trees are not of the same age...

[@Thighweaver]

The Bama Booms are wild Ive heard a couple myself. Some you can feel. It may be a collapsing of old mines or caverns underneath the vast network of unexplored areas under Alabama. However they sound like theyre not too high up so it is hard to tell. At times heard a couple at a time.

[@evilproducer01]

Madeline Island, in Lake Superior has a singing sand beach. I wouldn’t call that arid or excessively hot. Nor would I say there were high dunes. As I understand it, the theory is that sand grains are rounded due to the action of the water.

[@rafaelriveramestre7976]

Very common in the tropics (Caribbean at least)

[@Beryllahawk]

For the first time I really, really want to know what music you used for the chapters. Most especially the choral piece during the Singing Sands chapter! Just my kind of thing.

[@marcelogaea1064]

Holy 💨💨💨, it’s near-abysmal trying to keep up w/ all the new essays, let alone bingeing the old;💡! Perhaps consider centralizing your channels under one banner called Simonpedia? WikiWhistler? SimonSays? Whistlerpedia? Simonleaks?🤭

[@lloydalexander3738]

Could a plane be out of site and still cause a sonic boom you would feel and hear?

[@doclewis8927]

"We're sorry for this one: misfired deer semen." LOL...unexpected by grateful for the warning and apology.

[@deandreagillon]

Fun fact: I'm from "just North of Birmingham" and we had another Bama Boom a couple of days ago. It's not big news around here anymore.

[@rgerber]

if you have an accoustic guitar with nylon strings only slightly damp strings is enough to cause massive resonance if run over with fingers

[@GreatUncleEscobar]

Did young Simon ever think he would have to utter the phrase "Misfired Deer Semen" on camera?

[@One-EyedCorvus]

The first time I heard a sky-quake I was so amazed. Turns out they found a box of live grenades in my neighborhood and decided the best way to get rid of them was to detonate them in the landfill behind my house.

[@abhisheksharma-sb3er]

The forest light thing also occurs in uttarakhand india In the Himalayan mountains people have seen light going up down and erratic always and ofcourse people associated it with supernatural phenomenon

[@benlozier3290]

Thunder without clouds of moisture to muffle the sound..... It looks and sounds like thunder...... Thunder.

[@bgcloon]

Central and Southern NJ have been rattled by mysterious booms for decades. I grew up in Ocean County, and my parents always used to say it was Fort Dix firing their guns... except they didn't have guns big enough to rattle towns fifteen miles away.

[@jeremymoses7401]

Plot twist: "sky quakes" are scientists traveling literally to the right place and time to try to study sky quakes😂😂

[@JeffMoody]

We might have been hearing sky quakes in North Baja over a 25 year span. We lived in the middle of nowhere, an hour from the nearest city, and thought it was distant blasting. But after hearing it a few times a year, year after year, and coming from different directions, we figured it had to be something else, but never determined what. Maybe now we have an answer... an answer that still needs an answer.

[@mike79patton]

Near San Felipe?

[@JeffMoody]

@@mike79patton No, half way between Ensenada and Tecate, 20 miles from the Pacific coast and about 25 miles south of the border... you drive to the middle of nowhere and turn off the road 😄

[@mike79patton]

@@JeffMoody I love the middle of nowhere then! My favorite place on earth is Bahia de Los Angeles. Baja is the most amazing thing this planet has!

[@JeffMoody]

@@mike79patton BAY OF ANGELS!!! (What we call it) Yes! A kindred spirit! And Cataviña. I was just in B of LA a year ago, and 2 years ago I spent a couple days in Cataviña shooting pictures and video. The most enchanting place in the middle of nowhere. Me encanto Baja! The greatest place on earth! We've been going there for over 20 years

[@charlesflint9048]

The angles of the dunes will push air past the ripples in the sand creating a resonant sound.

[@dougiedrever7168]

you can pin trees as they grow to get them to grow wierd, my thought is they were anti cavalry trap, early version of a mine field

[@thomaslinton5765]

1. See "Dry Thunderstorm." A known phenomenon.

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

"It was heard in fifteen countries and Alabama"... oh, OK.

[@lancelafonde5240]

We got them crooked trees in Saskatchewan as well, check it out , little town called Hafford Saskatchewan, same things trees across the road are completely fine . Apparently animals wont even walk through the forest. Anyways its a cool place to visit when passing through

[@richardbrown6740]

The hessdalen lights have a more rare, less known american cousin in what is known as the Brown Mountain Lights,they occur in Appalachia.

[@Dzonnyg]

Poland mentioned. Great accomplishment for our nation.