10 Mysteries That Apparently Exist Solely To Mess With You

If a tree falls down in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? What about 80 million trees? In that case, probably yes.

That many trees were flattened when something gargantuan exploded over Siberia near the Tunguska river on 30 June 1908. An area over 800 square miles was wiped out. And yet it happened in a place so remote, no one was there. It would have been difficult to pick a place on earth where witnesses were less likely.

The probable explanation is that something really big hit the Earth from space, probably an asteroid or a comet, but the fact no one is sure makes it an irresistible magnet for woo.

Maybe it was aliens, or a stray nuclear test, or Nikola Tesla's misfiring death ray. Sure, it could have been any of those things, but nobody knows, and that's what makes it so maddening.