5 Unexplainable Mysteries Explained by Science

Do you want to know how some of Earth's most fascinating mysteries have been solved by science? Join us and learn about 5 thought-to-be unexplainable mysteries—explained! Hosted by Hank Green.

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Meat shower:

Easter Island hats:

Earthquake lights:

Sailing Stones:

The Bloop:

Will-o’-the-wisps:

[facetentacles]

Vultures: Screw this one town in particular.

[terryh.]

"synchronized projectile vomiting vultures"
I'm sure the people who tasted the meat were happy to know this.

[silvertheelf]

Will-o’-the-wisps have become rarer as people destroy the marshes and swamps, they are a rare and endangered flame.

[aarongilks]

Hank and John Green both educated an entire generation of kids and i am eternally grateful for their impact on society. Thank you legends for all the hard work, dftba.

[bigoljoe]

What I took from this video: A large group of vultures puked up their lunch over a kentucky town, and those two guys actually ate puked up carrion.

[mgaus]

Oh, the Bloop was a biological sea monster: the Ice Crackin'

[caseyhamm]

i think it’s crazy that nine years later, the thing that best cheers me up is still just hearing hank explain some science to me

[robertdozierjr]

Here in French South Louisiana where there is a lot of swamp, we call this glowing swamp gas “feu follet”. The old Cajuns that inhabited this land used to think that they were seeing spirits or ghosts in the swamp. Feu in French means fire and Follet is Catalan derived for sprite or goblin.

[therestless]

don't let the rest of the story of the meat shower distract you from the fact that he said that some guys actually tasted it

[jessam]

It is so refreshing to have a 'did you know' style of channel that doesn't rely on a constant 3 second slide change of non-related images!

[kittymervine]

also my grandmother used to point out the "Marsh gas" (she was a nurse and very scientific), when she drove us around the Eastern Shore of Maryland at night, which is rather swampy. The headlights would hit some, from a distance, and it was fabulous. Also she believed newer cemeteries with people still decomposing were best.

[savagegardenrox]

I'm still curious about the cultural purpose of the Moai. They were obviously extremely important to the Rapanui people, based on the intense effort and dedication involved in their creation and I just want to know what the purpose was. I wish I could ask one of the creators of the Moai.

[xxXthekevXxx]

So what you’re saying Hank, is that there was a...
*_meatier_* shower?

[tec-jones]

7:25 That's just the pioneers Hank! They used to ride those babies for miles.

[ecamp]

The story about vomiting vultures was new on me. I would have guessed tornado, like where waterspouts suck up fish or frogs and drop them miles away. But cormorants also do the vomiting thing when spooked, so vomiting vultures makes sense. And sounds grossly cool.

[heathercarter]

Wait. Spontaneous human combustion is not a thing? I remember being terrified of it when I was a kid. I can't remember where I learned about it but I know many of my 40ish year old friends were afraid of it too when we were kids 😂

[itsjustlukeRevive]

So those guys that had to taste the meat. They actually ate vomit from vultures...

[taxusbaccata]

Re the bloop: I know that ice can make weird sounds. I've sat next to a frozen pond and heard strange swooping noises. I figured it was the ice expanding and contracting.

[Angelofthursday]

Learning that earth lightning is a thing makes me hope that the people who are currently in charge of ATLA learn about it and make an earth bender character who figures out how to lightning bend and no one else in the show can figure out how they do it.

[rincewindthewiz]

I really appreciate you pointing out that even if we solve these mysteries, the stories we tell about them can still have value.