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Mystery: October 26, 2022 Issue [#11613]




 This week: Secrets in Nature
  Edited by: NaNoNette Author IconMail Icon
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“You’d think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth always disappoints.” ~ John Green


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Secrets in Nature


The common definition of mystery is that it involves a crime that was committed. A detective sets out to solve the crime. Clues, witnesses, red herrings abound until the story ends with a solution.

Mystery writers can tap another source of unsolvable riddles: nature itself.

Singing Sand Dunes

Dunes in 35 deserts around the world from China to Africa, from Qatar to California are making a deep humming sound like bees or rumbling Gregorian chants.

Star Jelly

Stories of white, milky, globular blobs plop out of the sky and show up in fields and meadows have been reported since the 14th century. Although given many names such as astral jelly, star-slutch, or star-shot, nobody has been able to explain what they are and what they dissipate into.

Ball Lightning

Very rare and impossible to predict, ball lightning eludes scientific exploration. A ball of lightning lingers for as long as a second and then it's gone. There is no explanation from its deviation from the common zigzag bolt form.

Catatumbo Lightning

The perfect storm happens regularly in northwestern Venezuela over one specific swamp. It has been going on for centuries. With 28 lightning strikes per minute and lasting for up to 10 hours almost every night, it has been dubbed an "everlasting storm." Eerily, there is no thunder! And where does it go when it stops for weeks on end?

Crooked Forest

A 400 tree strong pine forest in Poland has crooked stems. They all bend at the same angle toward the ground and then bend back up to grow toward the sky as they should. The forests around these trees are straight as they should be. Planted around the 1930s, there might have been a person who could have explained the phenomenon, but nobody wrote anything down.

Devil's Kettle Falls

In Minnesota, the Brule River splits into two waterfalls. So far, so normal. One of the waterfalls behaves in the expected way. The other side dives into the hole dubbed Devil's Kettle to disappear completely. Nobody has been able to figure out where the water goes that falls into Devil's Kettle.

Which natural mystery was ruined for you by science?



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Replies to my last Mystery newsletter "Numbers" Open in new Window. that asked: Do you have a number that means something specific to you? Which number is it? What does it mean?

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The "baker's dozen" began because the bakers supplying bread to the royalty (no matter now minor) didn't want the original twelve loaves to be underweight, so the thirteenth was added to avoid misfortune.

Tornado Dodger Author Icon wrote: Creative topic choice! I enjoyed reading about phobias and things associated with different numbers in other countries.

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Bikerider Author Icon wrote: I'm one of 11 children, so the number 11 symbolizes chaos for me.

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