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26 Amazing Discoveries Randos Just Waltzed Into

November 06, 2023

You know the feeling. You’re a Turkish homeowner who wants to open up a little space by knocking down a wall — and you end up uncovering an entire underground city. Then after the shock wears off, you put an island in the kitchen and a walk-in closet in every bedroom (just in case there’s something hiding behind those walls too).

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2000-year-old battery CRACKED.COM People thought this artifact was just a pot. It turned out to be a working battery, more than a millennium before batteries were supposedly invented. No one has any idea what it was for. — Source

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51 headless Vikings CRACKED COM These bodies found in England indicate that dozens of people had been stripped naked and executed, then their heads were removed and thrown in a pile. — Source

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A German couple discovered a Perfect Mummy while they were hiking in the Alps. The couple thought they'd stumbled across a dead hiker. They might have, but he'd begun his hike in 3300 В.С. CRACKED.COM http://veww.iceman.it/en/node/233 — Source

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Since the 1930s, Hundreds of Stone Balls have been discovered in Costa Rica. They range in size from a few centimeters to over two meters in diameter. The largest weigh 16 tons. Almost all of them are made of granodiorite, a hard, igneous stone. And nobody knows where they came from. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dino Nest

A CHINESE BOY LOOKING FOR A NUTCRACKER FOUND A DINOSAUR NEST. CRACKED.COM Ten-year-old Zhang Yangzhe was wandering around near the Dong River trying to find something hard enough to crack open his walnut. Не stumbled upon a fossilized egg that was laid 66 million years ago by a Cretaceous-era dinosaur. Presumably someone intervened before he found something even harder to crack that open. — Source

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A MICHIGAN FARMER TRYING TO INSTALL A WATER PIPE FOUND WOOLY MAMMOTH BONES. CRACKED.COM James Bristle was mid-construction when his digger hit something hard. Turned out to be a near-complete mammoth skeleton from 11,700-15,000 years ago. Scientists think the creature was possibly killed and definitely butchered by early humans. — Source

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CONSTRUCTION WORKERS DIGGING A SEWER FOUND AN ANCIENT TEMPLE. CRACKED.COM The workers were drilling a sewage drain in an Egyptian city when they unearthed a 2,200-year-old temple from the era of King Ptolemy IV. Archeologists found walls decorated with carvings of the Egyptian fertility god Hapi, which seems like a pretty on-the-nose name. — Source

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CRACKED.COM A CALIFORNIA WOMAN BOUGHT A JACKSON POLLOCK PAINTING FOR $5 AT A THRIFT STORE. A forensic art specialist helped determine 10625 38.4 W that the painting Teri Horton purchased is THE UNITED -280m W COL an original work by the artist also known - - ISEN 9 as Jack the Dripper. DOLLAR Its estimated value: anywhere from $10 million to $50 million. — Source

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The Great Pyramid

AN EGYPTIAN MAN DIGGING IN HIS YARD FOUND A SECRET PASSAGE TO THE GREAT PYRAMID. CRACKED.COM The man came across a corridor made of stone blocks while doing some amateur (illegal) excavation. Officials determined that the corridor was the Pyramid of Khufu's legendary causeway, which archeologists had been trying to find for decades. So he's definitely cursed now. — Source

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AN INCREDIBLY RARE CHESS PIECE WAS FOUND IN A DRAWER IN SCOTLAND. CRACKED.COM The medieval chess piece, one of the long-lost Lewis Chessmen, had been gathering dust in a drawer for 55 years before the family thought to have it assessed. Apparently their grandfather had purchased it in 1964 for £5, and had no idea of its cultural importance. Or its million-dollar value. — Source

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A KID PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK LITERALLY STUMBLED OVER A STEGOMASTODON SKULL. CRACKED.COM Nine-year-old Jude Sparks tripped over the 1.2-million-year-old fossil while looking for a good place to hide from his brothers during a hike in Las Cruces, New Mexico. While running, he kicked the tusk and face-planted next to the jawbone of what he figured was a giant elephant. — Source

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After purchasing an apartment sight-unseen at an auction of foreclosed properties, the new owner had opened the front door for the very first time only to discover... ...the hanging body of the former tenant. Не had apparently committed suicide eight years previously and a string of coincidences resulted in his remains being undiscovered. CRACKED.COM — Source

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World War II

As city workers were digging a trench for a fiber optic cable at the Hollister Airport dog park, they found an active WWII practice bomb. DISARMED 9/10/18 MCSO CH The Jerry Gabe Municipal Dog Park located in California was once a former Navy base in the 1940s, so it is believed to host more bombs and fuel tanks underground. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Holocaust

During a renovation, a Hungarian couple accidentally uncovered 6300 Nazi documents behind a wall in their apartment. I Adatszolgáltatási ív I Statist المغربية E f i F . I I - M. E NZ. rendelether. E y i 1 1 F I A - I | E for I I E I I this works 7 orda د Australia 20 Piron than r I Zs 31.268 utca 168. helyra|zi szão I f | I háror I 6 These documents were a census to keep track of Jews before moving them into death camps during the Holocaust. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A 2017 Argentine police raid on an art collector's home found a secret room with Nazi relics. - FF The room had toys, statues, medical devices and more, all probably owned by top Nazi party members. CRACKED.COM — Source

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While playing Pokemon Go, instead of a Pikachu... Bass Pro Shop This woman found a dead body under a Wyoming bridge. COUNTY CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM In 2011, miners in Alberta, Canada, found a huge nodosaur fossil. It was so undamaged, it could have been walking around a couple of weeks ago. — Source

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When contractor Gary Haynes was hired to renovate a shut-down chiropractic clinic, he probably expected to find strange stuff in the basement, but not... ...jars containing fetuses. Prior to 1950, when the building was a medical clinic, a rumor flew around saying the clinic ran an illegal abortion service. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Two Filipino fishermen returning home for the day noticed a drifting partially submerged yacht. CRACKED COM They would then discover that its captain was still on board, as a mummy. How long he had been dead was impossible to determine, since conditions at sea could have mummified him within weeks. — Source

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King Henri VI of France

A king's severed head CRACKED.COM The head of King Henri IV of France turned up in some guy's attic. Seems a tax collector bought it years ago, stored it there, then forgot about it. — Source

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Dead Germans 5 CRACKED.COM No one expected to find 21 Germans killed in WWI all together in this underground shelter. With them was a goat, and the less questions asked about that, the better. — Source

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Smallpox scabs GRACKED.COM A librarian opened a book from 1888 and fround an envelope inside with smallpox scabs. Scientists were excited that they might harbor the live virus. The librarian was less pleased. — Source

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A whole city CRACKED.COM A Turkish man knocked down a wall in his home and uncovered a tunnel to a massive city called Derinkuyu. We know not what happened next to the man, so we must assume he died horribly. — Source

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Morbid Discoveries

A skull in a skull CRACKED COM A lake in Sweden seemed normal, but then inside were 11 skulls, some impaled on stakes. One skull contained bits of another skull. This had to be some kind of ritual murder. — Source

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Oozing walls CRACKED.COM A home inspector failed to spot a colony of 60,000 bees. The bees soon left, but their honey remained, and it squeezed its way through the walls and coated the home from the inside. — Source

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This damn bird claw CRACKED.COM Cavers were exploring Mt. Owen in New Zealand. They stumbled on the startlingly fleshy remains of a 3,000-year-old Moa, a flightless bird twice the height of a human being. — Source

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