Shocking Things Found In Ice

here's a question what percentage of

Earth's surface would you say is covered

in ice from a satellite view it can seem

like a lot but despite what it looks

like ice covers up just 10 percent of

the Earth's surface this percentage has

fluctuated wildly over the years when

ice ages covering up to 30 percent of

the world and ice at any given time but

as temperatures have risen in the ice

from these periods has receded people

have discovered strange things that were

once frozen solid within them from

chilled cavemen to deadly diseases and

even snowy symbols from an

extraterrestrial civilization it's time

to take a look at some of the most

shocking things ever found in the eyes

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iced E.T

back in 2013 Jason Nilsson decided to go

for a wintry walk with a pal across a

frozen lake in Utah for as far as the

eye could see there was just ice ice and

more ice that was until Nelson spotted a

strange circular marking on top of the

frozen lake as the two Edge closer to

the bizarre site their curiosity quickly

turned to dread they'd stumbled across

this inexplicably strange skin crawling

Circle dotted with hundreds of smaller

holes if there are any Trypophobia

sufferers out there I highly suggest you

look awa

like that wasn't creepy enough towards

the center of the icy ring was a smaller

Circle giving this monstrosity the

illusion of some unsettling infected eye

what in the world is this and does

anyone else have the urge to destroy it

trying to figure it out the pair looked

closer into this marking when Nielsen

noticed small squidgy white blobs that

had melted through the ice

I know dude

that's what's weird about it

I don't know about you but I think those

things could definitely pass for alien

eggs fortunately the real explanation

behind this icy terror is believed to be

down to a young girl and no she wasn't

summoning the devil according to her

mother the girl had laid out balls of

salt though in the skin crawling

geometric design for an art assignment

not long later the salty squishy

sculptures had melted Through The Eyes

leaving behind this frightful Frozen

feature

I still can't look at this thing without

gagging why does it look so cursed well

at least that explanation means that we

won't be getting taken over by any

little green men for now

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the wave

in 2015 photographer Kelly preheim

visited Lake Andy's National Wildlife

Refuge hoping to capture some pictures

of the beautiful scenery however what

she ended up snabbing was less Scenic

and more fishtopian sorry dystopian

don't rub your eyes yes that's a

photograph of a four foot high Frozen

wall of fish how on Earth can dozens of

fish get trapped upright and a wall of

ice at first glance it may look like the

fish were frozen mid leap out of the

water perhaps by a particularly Frosty

gust of wind but nowhere on the planet

is cold enough to flash freeze an entire

wave in a literal instant for that

temperatures would need to be close to

zero Kelvin or absolute zero which is

about negative 459 degrees Fahrenheit

that's colder than the empty vacuum of

space the real reason for this puzzling

picture is down to thick clouded eyes

forming on the Lake's surface when this

gets thick enough it blocks out the sun

and plants in water can't receive light

to photosynthesize and produce oxygen as

a result of the lack of oxygen in the

water fish trapped in the lake

unfortunately pass away and Float to the

surface still the question remains how

they ended up trapped upright it's

possible that the weather took an even

colder turn increasing the amount of ice

and as it expanded was pushed towards

the shore where it eventually buckled

and extended vertically on top of that

harsh winds could have forced the frozen

fish upwards even further until they

eventually extended into a four-foot

wall fortunately this fearsome feature

wasn't bad news for everyone the icy

animals essentially became a Frozen

banquet for Hungry Eagles and gulls

they're braver than me I mean can you

imagine the brain freeze

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the Frozone

it was a normal day for brothers Anton

and Alex babich who went out ice fishing

in Northern Indiana back in January

2017. they were hoping to bring home a

catch or two which they did in a sense I

mean they didn't actually catch any fish

well no alive ones anyway instead what

they did capture was this jaw-dropping

footage poking out of the frozen lake on

which they were fishing was the body of

a bass as the brothers walked over to

their fishy find they realized the true

extent of what they'd stumbled upon the

bass wasn't just frozen into the lake it

was also stuck in the mouth of a much

larger Pike so how exactly could the two

fish get Frozen mid-meal the most likely

explanation is that the pike tried to

eat the bass but bit off a bit more than

it could chew literally the bass was too

big and the pike choke taking its meal

with it to a watery grave as both fish

met their end they floated to the water

surface where they eventually froze

leaving it looking like a Damien Hurst

artwork

but it turns out that fish aren't the

only unlucky animals to fall victim to

an icy end just ask this Frozen Fox who

spent a little too long in a

Scandinavian Lake sadly this fluffy

fella drowned here before being frozen

over when the conditions became more

frigid well it's not the first time that

Firefox is Frozen on a similar note at

first glance this glacial Gator appears

to have succumbed to the same fearsome

fate as Mr Fox but surprising as it

sounds this Frozen alligator is actually

alive and well while these reptiles are

typically found in warm Waters American

alligators can be found in places like

North Carolina where temperatures can

drop as low as negative 34 degrees

Fahrenheit fortunately these guys are

prepared for the gold snap just before

the water freezes alligators stick their

snouts into the air before the ice sets

in allowing them to breathe while mostly

submerged during this time the polar

Predators go through a process called

brumation This is essentially a dormant

period for reptile miles just like

hibernation is for mammals in a process

that can take a stomach turning five

months skaters shut down their

metabolism slow down their heart rate

and don't eat waiting for their Waters

to warm back up man those guys really do

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done nice now where were we

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Ed animals aren't the only ones who

found themselves in an icer death

situation back in 2021 visitors to

Theodore worth Regional Park in

Minneapolis and the U.S were greeted by

a puzzling polar feature emerging from

the trees was a six foot tall block of

ice and entombed within it was what

appeared to be a human but this wasn't

just any old human the figure Frozen in

the giant eye structure was a

shaggy-haired caveman carrying a

club-shaped weapon in his right hand it

attracted masses of curious visitors to

the park who were eager to catch a

glimpse of a real-life caveman now I

don't know about you but this feels like

the beginning of a horror movie to me I

mean I just know I've seen a film where

recently discovered caveman thoughts out

and starts going full Goblin mode with

that clunky Club of his fortunately

though there was no caveman Carnage

turns out that this Frozen feature is

actually the work of artist Zach

schumach who created the Iceman known as

zugzug out of plastic Zack won to create

something that got people away from

their computer and TV screens and out

into the open air and snow but I

wouldn't get your hopes up of meeting

zag Zug in person nowadays he lives at

home with his creators Zach

imagine living with that hulking human

ice pop silently and unblinkingly

watching every move you make from now

until eternity well putting it like that

I think I've lived with worse housemates

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fossils

with climate change gradually increasing

the temperature of the entire planet

Tyndall Glacier and southern Chile is

slowly melting away in fact from 1945 to

2001 the glacier which is a giant Frozen

River of ice retreated by over three

miles now glaciers melting at this speed

isn't a good sign for the state of the

environment but the thawing ice at

Tyndall Glacier did at least reveal an

incredible ancient artifact in 2009

paleontologists came across the weirdly

well-preserved fossils of an ancient

Beast poking out of the icy Bedrock of

this once free-flowing River it was the

remains of an ichthyosaur a prehistoric

Marine reptile that inhabited the

world's water some 250 million years ago

for reference that makes these guys

almost triple the age of the oldest

T-Rex at some 10 feet long these beasts

had a plump body creepy looking eyes and

a sizable snout kind of like a dolphin

that's been drawn by a three-year-old

but paleontologist Excavating the sign

on tendo Glacier weren't just greeted by

one freaky fossil no they uncovered 76

So what had gone down to take all these

giant guys are down well experts believe

something called a turbidity current was

to blame this is a rapid downwards flow

of water caused by earthquakes or

collapsing sea slopes the ichthyosaurus

may have been trapped by the chaotic

current and thrown down into an opened

Abyss where they were buried in

collapsing sediment getting caked in

this silty residue would have created an

anoxic environment for the ichthyosaurus

carcasses meaning there's no Oxygen

preventing bacterial decomposition of

their bodies in fact these freaky

fossils were so well preserved that

paleontologists even unearth the female

ichthyosaur complete with fossilized

fetuses in her womb thanks to these

findings scientists will now be able to

better understand these marine reptiles

and their embryonic development fine

just as long as they don't bring these

freaky things back from the dead I'll be

happy

Baltic Beast

back in 2021 over in Siberia Russia

Alexi Savin was enjoying a nice stroll

soaking up the surrounding snowy scenery

that was until he spotted something

peculiar poking out of the Frozen

permafrost which is ground that's

remained completely Frozen for several

years at least at first it looked like a

rock but when Simon looked closer he

realized it was actually the carcass of

a young Rhino now I know what you're

thinking Siberia has rhinos the massive

horned animals famous for living pretty

exclusively in high climates yeah these

bulky beasts are only found in the Wilds

of Africa and Asia but what seven found

wasn't any normal Rhino this thing had

fur it turned out to be a woolly Rhino

an extinct cousin of modern rhinos that

roamed the planet between 5 million and

11 700 years ago when I say colossal I

really mean it these all-natural tanks

could reach Links of up to 13 feet and

weigh up to a hefty 2.2 tons although

while that size wasn't always so handy

as researchers believed that the

specimen 7 found likely drowned now this

isn't the first woolly Rhino discovered

within the Siberian permafrost but

researchers claimed sevens is the best

preserved example of an extinct Ice Age

mammal ever discovered much of the Rhino

soft tissue was still visible along with

its Hooves fur teeth and a small nasal

horn being such a well-capped specimen

has led researchers to discover more

about this prehistoric Beast wear marks

on the horn indicate that the creature

may have used its bony protrusion to

gather food by scraping away snow and

ice to reach less vegetation hiding

underneath clearly these things were

horned to be wild oof that one might be

my worst dad joke in a while

oh reindeer

now woolly rhinos aren't the only thing

hiding in the Frozen depths of Siberia

back in 2016 something far more lethal

emerged from the Region's permafrost

that summer without any warning 2 300

reindeer suddenly dropped down dead at

the same time 90 local residents were

hospitalized with a strange devilish

disease so what was the cause of this

mysterious malady while Siberia was

enjoying a particularly warm summer in

2016 the rising temperatures led to the

thawing of the Region's permafrost but

as the permafrost melted away a deadly

dormant disease Rose to the surface it

turns out that in the early 20th century

repeated outbreaks of Anthrax were

responsible for the demise of more than

one million reindeer in Siberia the

corpses were buried but because

permafrost is so tough it's practically

impossible to dig deep Graves to make

matters worse the cold temperatures

provided the perfect preservation

conditions for the anthrax to remain

alive with the abnormally sweltering

summer it didn't take long for the

thawing permafrost to expose the anthrax

infected carcasses presumably grazing

reindeers picked up the infection from

feeding near the carcasses of their

deceased ancestors and once Rudolph and

Co were infected the disease quickly

passed on to humans that were hurting

them now as you can probably guess

Anthrax ain't something that you want to

catch this bacterial disease can cause

everything from fevers headaches and

dizziness to black skin ulcers vomiting

and even death in fact without treatment

survival rates for those who've inhaled

Anthrax spores are as low as 10 percent

fortunately due to a large-scale

reindeer vaccination rollout this

anthrax outbreak didn't escalate any

further even so I'm never going to be

able to look at Rudolph the same way

again

blizzardy booze

jutting out of the northern coast of

Antarctica you'll find Cape roids an

inhospitable place where temperatures

drop below negative 50 degrees

Fahrenheit and high winds cause blinding

snow storms today the only things bold

enough to live here are a colony of

penguins so back in 2010 how was it that

conservationists found three crates of

whiskey here did those Penguins know how

to party not exactly the bottles were in

fact lying underneath an old abandoned

Hut while the Hut was already known

about the whiskey was a new discovery

and one of significance because of who

it had likely belonged to you see this

Hut was the base camp of the famous

explorer

Ernest Shackleton more than a hundred

years before back in 1907 Shackleton LED

an expedition in search of the South

Pole using that very Hut as a base camp

for his voyage the question is who put

the whiskey underneath the Hut the most

popular theory is that shackles 10 place

the bottles there before setting off for

the pole in the anticipation of a

Victory celebration on the cruise return

however the crew never reached their

South Pole destination so Shackleton

probably wasn't in the mood to celebrate

incredibly despite being left for over

100 years in the sub freezing Antarctic

conditions the whiskey wasn't Frozen it

was able to withstand the freeze thanks

to its high-watering 47.3 alcoholic

strength and because alcohol contains

ethanol which has a freakishly low

freezing point of negative 173 degrees

Fahrenheit it snapped these beverages

from turning into alcoholic ice pops

after being displayed at Canterbury

Museum in New Zealand the bottles of

whiskey were returned to shackleton's

Hut on Cape roids in 2013 where they can

still be found today well over a hundred

years after they were first left there

pretty neat don't you think

polar portal

thanks to its circular shape red steep

slopes and Vivid water carrot Lake in

Iceland has ironically become a tourist

Hot Spot why ironic because eager

explorers have discovered that and

winter this place transforms into a

polar Paradise as the season produces

temperatures averaging around a frosty

32 degrees Fahrenheit Gareth freezes

over and boys it's something to see

anyone lucky enough to catch a glimpse

will think they're standing on the edge

of a portal into an icy underworld now

Karis lake is located on the side of a

once active cone-shaped volcano when it

erupted the volcano depleted its magma

Reserve causing the rupture to cave in

on itself resulting in the Caldera

formation you can see here today not

only did the depressed volcano form the

Crimson crater that holds the lake the

volcanic minerals from the steep slopes

also seeped into the water these

minerals essentially dye the water in

the lake this Vivid aquamarine color so

when winter comes what you're left with

is a wildly vibrant frozen lake

surrounded by dark red slopes and a

location that could have been pulled

straight from Game of Thrones wow anyone

else getting kareth away

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if you went trekking across a glacier

one of those previously mentioned frozen

rivers you'd probably expect to find ice

ice no more eyes yet in 1898 American

Explorer James Campbell came across

something else while hiking along a

glacier in Wyoming U.S what Kimball saw

poking out from the glacier was a small

shriveled Green Leg and no before the

tin had Brigade started invading the

comment section it wasn't an alien what

the Explorer had come across was a

frozen grasshopper that's not

immediately weird but then things took a

strange turn the more Kimball dug the

more grasshoppers emerged in fact he

noted that not a fragment of ice on the

one mile long Glacier could be broken

without finding the remains of these

bouncy bugs and all they're believed to

be tens of millions of grasshoppers

entombed in the ice in both this Glacier

and others close by so how exactly did

they end up buried in the ice here after

all these Critters are most commonly

associated with leaping through warm

grassy Plains but that's not the case

for all grasshoppers the Rocky Mountain

Locust and extinct species of

grasshopper would frequently migrate in

swarms flying over America's Rocky

Mountains scientists believe that a

swarm of billions of locusts migrating

over the mountains were suddenly swept

down by a brutal winter storm the doomed

Critters then crashed down on the

glacier which became their icy grave

while the Rocky Mountain locusts may be

no more their Frozen remains have at

least given eager scientists the chance

to discover more about these long

extinct bugs I bet they were jumping for

joy

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Battlefield blizzard

when you think of World War One what

comes to mind muddy Fields trenches rats

while that may have been the case for

most soldiers fighting on the front

lines there were soldiers fighting

somewhere a little less known with

conditions they were arguably much

harsher the white war is the name given

to the fighting that happened in the

northern Italian Alps between Italian

and austro-hungarian troops from 1915 to

1918. here combat took place at

altitudes of up to 12 000 feet where the

temperatures drop as low as negative 22

degrees Fahrenheit the stories of the

fighting were somewhat Frozen in time

until recently temperature rises saw

much of the ice in the region Melt Away

revealing an assortment of shocking

discoveries in 2021 researchers

excavated a previously inaccessible

Barrack Atop The Italian Alps the

artificial Cavern was used as a shelter

for Austrian soldiers and was shocked

full of long forgotten artifacts

ammunitions and animal skin jackets

straw mattresses even ladles made out of

10 cans each fascinating find hammered

home just how brutal life for soldiers

here must have been I mean can you

imagine trying to get cozy while it's

negative 22 degrees Fahrenheit outside

and all you've got for warmth is a

jacket and a straw mattress sadly some

more disturbing discoveries have been

Unearthed here too in 2012 the mummified

remains of two Austrian soldiers were

uncovered and in recent years more than

80 corpses have emerged from the melting

Mountain surprisingly however most of

these casualties didn't fall victim to

enemy gunfire the majority are instead

believed to have been taken out by

hypothermia and avalanches like World

War One couldn't get any worse

laughs

Greenland we have a problem

around 20 years after the white war

ended another global conflict in the

shape of World War II started and US

humans love to pick a fight don't we and

just as the white War Left Behind Some

fascinating Frozen relics so did World

War II in 1942 America began operation

Bolero a campaign of deploying troops

and equipment to Britain in order to

boost the Allied invasion of Europe part

of the mission involved flying hundreds

of U.S army airplanes across the

Atlantic however not all of the aircraft

made it to their destination in July

1942 six P-38 fighter planes heading for

Britain had to make an emergency landing

on a Greenland ice sheet due to adverse

weather thankfully all of the crew

survived but the aircraft didn't the

planes were so badly damaged they were

considered unrecoverable and were

abandoned on the ice sheet over the

decades the Forgotten fighter planes

disappeared from side after being

gradually buried in more than 260 feet

of snow and ice that was until 1988 when

the Greenland Expedition Society arrived

on the ice cap in search of the planes

but as you can expect finding anything

under that much snow and ice isn't an

easy task recovery teams use ground

penetrating radar a lawnmower looking

device that uses radar pulses to image

the subsurface within days the radar

pinpointed the location of one of the

planes to drill down the team used as

super gopher and no sadly it wasn't a

mega sized rodent it's a thermal

meltdown generator that helped the team

carve a 260 feet deep shaft into the ice

after drilling down the crew used a

chain hoist to Journey Down the daunting

descent before steam housing a cavern

around the plane but the work didn't

stop there to haul the plane out from

the ice it was painstakingly

disassembled piece by piece and carried

back up the shaft if hell has a version

of Lego that's it four months after the

recovery began all of the parts of one

of the p-38s had been salvaged the

aircraft appropriately named Glacier

girl returned to the U.S where it was

restored to Flying condition today more

than 80 years after it landed on that

fateful ice sheet the old girl could be

seen soaring through the sky at air

shows in the U.S

now that is what you call a comeback

which of these Frozen finds shocked you

the most and have you ever discovered

something disturbing in the ice except

those frozen veggies you've had in the

icebox since 2010 let me know down in

the comments below and thnks.