It was full of the bones of whales, strange walrus-faced dolphins and sloths all lying side by side. Mass Whale Graveyard In 2011, during a road widening project in the Atacama Desert of Chile, builders stumbled across a mass graveyard, but it wasn’t what you might expect. Many stories have been told of the place, but the site of the true ancient city of Troy is located to the northwest of Turkey.ħ. Troy is famous for the beautiful Helen of Troy, Achilles, and the horse. The City of Troy The ancient city of Troy was the focus of Homer’s “Illiad”, where it lay under siege for more than 10 years before finally succumbing to a Greek army being led by King Agamemnon.
BATTLE OF BLOOD ISLAND SERIES
13 years later, in 1994, acoustic devices picked up the tell tale sign of a vessel, with a series of metallic clicking noises being heard near Stockholm harbour.Ĩ. At the time it was blamed on an accidental navigation error, but since then, the Swedes have kept a careful listen out for any more intrusions into their territory. Pouring from the Taylor Glacier, the water is a deep red colour, and has an average temperature of only 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit- well below the freezing point of 32!ĩ Clicking in Stockholm Harbour In 1981, a Russian submarine, armed with a nuclear warhead, entered Swedish waters near a naval base. One feature that’s been a mystery ever since they were found are the blood falls in the Mcmurdo Dry Valley. Blood Falls Because of its remote location and inhospitable environment, there’s a lot still to be discovered in Antarctica. Then, read up on Desmond Doss, the Hacksaw Ridge medic who saved dozens of soldiers’ lives during World War II.10. Don’t mess with mother nature.Īfter this look at the Battle of Ramree Island that has been dubbed the “Ramree Island Massacre,” see some of the most powerful World War II photos ever taken. One thing is for certain: When given the choice of surrendering or taking chances in a crocodile-infested swamp, choose surrender. But exactly how many men died in the maws of the mighty crocs remains up for debate because no one knows how many troops succumbed to disease, dehydration, or starvation as opposed to predation. These Japanese troops told their captors about the crocodiles. What the British do know for sure is that 20 men came out of the swamp alive and were captured. The Guinness Book of World Records listed the Ramree Island massacre as the largest crocodile attack in history, according to Wikipedia. Of the 1,000 troops who entered the swamp on Ramree Island, only a reported 480 survived.
At dawn the vultures arrived to clean up what the crocodiles had left.” The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black swamp punctured by the screams of the wounded men crushed in the jaws of huge reptiles, and the blurred worrying sound of spinning crocodiles made a cacophony of hell that has rarely been duplicated on Earth. With the ebb of the tide, the crocodiles moved in on the dead, wounded, and uninjured men who had become mired in the mud… The crocodiles, alerted by the din of warfare and smell of blood, gathered among the mangroves, lying with their eyes above the water, watchfully alert for their next meal. “That night was the most horrible that any member of the M.L. The most prominent firsthand retelling of what happened comes from naturalist Bruce Stanley Wright, who participated in the Battle of Ramree Island and gave this written account: Several British soldiers said that the crocodiles preyed on the Japanese soldiers in the swamp.
Even worse, saltwater crocodiles are nocturnal and excel at taking prey in the dark. Mosquitoes, spiders, poisonous snakes, and scorpions hid in the thick forest and picked off some troops one by one.Ĭrocodiles appeared when the Japanese got deeper into the swamp. Soon after entering the slimy mudhole, Japanese soldiers began to succumb to diseases, dehydration, and starvation. And in an incident not unlike the infamous U.S.S Indianapolis shark attack that befell American troops later that year, many of these troops didn’t survive. The Japanese understood that saltwater crocodiles have a reputation for eating humans but they went into the mangrove swamp of Ramree Island anyway.
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