7 natural phenomena that can be mistaken for witchcraft.

Planet Earth is an amazing place where you can observe unique natural anomalies that look like witchcraft. Researchers work tirelessly to explain the reasons for this or that phenomenon. And, to their credit, sometimes they manage to form very convincing versions of what is happening.

Fairy circles.

There is a desert on the territory of South African Namibia, which is literally dotted with mysterious circles. Their diameter reaches fifteen meters. Ecologists suggest that termites create them. According to experts, tiny insects build special deepening in order to collect rainwater. The Namibians are inclined towards a more fantastic version, claiming that a certain serpent lives under the desert. And the circles are the spots where his deadly breath breaks out to the surface.

Lake Natron.

The famous reservoir of Tanzania is at the same time terrifying with its lifelessness and mesmerizing with the brightest colors. So much alkali and salts are concentrated in the lake that any living organism that gets into its waters almost instantly turns into a mummy. The exception is cyanobacteria. It is they who paint Natron in unusual colors - from pale pink to deep bloody. Small flamingos have also chosen the reservoir for their habitat. The high temperature of the lake allows birds to hatch their eggs all year round.

Murmuration of birds.

An amazing natural phenomenon is a harmonious aerial dance of thousands of flocks of small birds. For example, of variegated starlings. The most popular theory states that murmuration is a defense mechanism that allows relatively small birds to appear as a huge celestial predator. Although there are dozens of more mundane hypotheses about information exchange between birds.

Creeping stones/ Moving rocks.

The dried-up Lake Racetrack Playa, located in the American Death Valley, is famous for its moving boulders. The stones travel from two to five meters every minute without any help, leaving noticeable furrows. At the dawn of the twentieth century, otherworldly forces and magnetic fields were alternately blamed for what was happening. In 2014, it turned out that Death Valley does not even smell of mysticism. Boulders simply slide over the thinnest, but very extensive areas of ice.

Taos hum.

The acoustic phenomenon occupies a leading position in all kinds of unofficial ratings of unexplained natural anomalies. The noise has been heard for tens of years by the population of the American town of Taos. The hum comes from the nearby desert, reminiscent of the movement of tractors or bulldozers. Researchers have never been able to pinpoint the source of the noise, only suggesting that it might be due to power lines.

Hessdalen lights.

The bright glow was documented in the early eighties. The name of the unexplained phenomenon is associated with the Norwegian Hessdalen Valley. Today, you can also watch the appearance of white lights. Although now it is much rarer than at the end of the last century. In 1984, researchers managed to record more than fifty episodes of the appearance of a bright glow, but experts did not manage to explain its nature.

Fireball/ Ball lightning.

Some eminent physicists believe that a rare natural phenomenon does not exist. And all the evidence of the appearance of ball lightning is the hallucinations of eyewitnesses. Therefore, the scientific world has not yet formed a unified hypothesis for the occurrence of an anomaly. It is assumed that ball lightning is a kind of particle that breaks off the conductor, moving along an unpredictable trajectory.