Haunted, Mysterious, Moving 'Eye' in South America | What on Earth? | Science Channel

[TheAtlasJoker]

For anyone curious, the moving mass in the middle isn’t actually an island but more like a bunch of plants that grew together and tangled up

[Adam-zel]

“Could it be geography?” … “ no it’s clearly haunted you fool”

[brandenlontok]

I solved the mystery!
The island is floating plants, and the magic that is moving it is called ✨Wind✨

[ZayZoot]

It's a mat of vegetation floating around, it's not even the only one in Patagonia.

[trevorpeterson]

In case anyone is interested, it's called el ojo del delta. The island is just a growth of plants that grew together into a floating mass. The water currents that flow underneath (the entire area is a delta) causes the plant mass to rotate around and constantly reform itself into a circular mass. It's very unique but not all that mysterious.

[derby]

Really??? It's a body of water with a thick mat of vegetation. As the wind blows, it moves. The mystery is why anyone would think this is a mystery.

[Hesitant-Skeleton]

It makes me so happy that most of the comments are talking about what this phenomenon actually is instead of comments falling for the ancient aliens style clickbait commentary.

[Faust]

I'm sick of shows like this. Turning something that naturally happens into something supernatural or extraterrestrial. This needs to stop.

[brudershaft]

This is what the Dark Ages must have been like 24/7. Just a lot of bewildered and confused people scurrying around in sackcloths screaming at bumblebees.

[stillraven]

It's a mat of plants floating on the water and any current or the wind will move it around. Mystery solved. 😒

[whatdidyousay]

The wind:🗿
Plants ontrop of eachother:🗿

[pizzasteve]

As a scientist it is sad to see how far so called educational programs have declined

[gandalf]

It’s a tussock. Literally just a mat of vegetation and mud floating on the lake. They start attached to the shore from reeds, but storms can detach them and leave them free floating.

[ernestomartinezusa]

Clearly it's floating around. I have an inflatable 🍩 in my pool that is also moving. Should I call these people to investigate that?

[xSkankHunt]

“Something is pulling the island” lmfao it’s called the water, they really let anyone be a scientist nowadays

[tabletopstudios]

Actually it’s a bog, a buildup of plant matter and vegetation that exists within a lake, often moving around over periods of time.

[seannightingale]

I'm so happy that everyone seems to understand how non mysterious this "mystery" is

[ZieSpiralOut]

Like everyone else said it is indeed a rotating mat of plants. To add to the conversation, there is another natural phenomena that looks very similar- when the section of a river with a strong rotating current freezes on top but water still rotates underneath it, you can end up with a perfectly circular shaped chunk of ice.

[a.p.]

This is a genuinely pretty cool natural phenomenon, described in the most annoying, clickbaity, unscientific way imaginable. It's a mat of vegetation on a roughly circular pond that rotates when the wind blows on it (or maybe there's a current, hard to tell). And if you're so curious, *just go look at it.* It's in South America, not on Mars.

[MicahPhelan-jowh]

“I believe there’s something actually pulling the island around the lake” cracked the code there Einstein 🤦‍♂️