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Sources:
Meat shower:
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1876/03/10/81687268.pdf
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/
https://archive.org/stream/americanjournal163unkngoog#page/n96/mode/2up/search/walmsley
https://books.google.com/books?id=Rv2fAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA254%23v=onepage&q&f=false#v=onepage&q&f=false
Easter Island hats:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440312004311
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031830195X
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/clever-way-easter-island-statues-got-their-cool-hats-180969253/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/easter-island/
Earthquake lights:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140106-earthquake-lights-earthquake-prediction-geology-science/
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-abstract/85/1/159/349010/prevalence-of-earthquake-lights-associated-with?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-01/ssoa-ell122013.php
Sailing Stones:
https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/sailing-stones-death-valley
https://www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/the-racetrack.htm
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/mystery-solved-sailing-stones-death-valley-seen-action-first-time
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0105948
The Bloop:
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bloop.html
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8qpvdx/the-bloop-an-underwater-mystery-that-took-nearly-20-years-to-solve
Will-o’-the-wisps:
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/willowisp.html
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/j.1477-8696.2000.tb04067.x
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852401000323
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0146638095000216
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267817536_On_the_track_of_the_will-o’-the-wisp
https://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/geol/will.htm
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So much of the Easter island segment is false.
You can hear the bloop every time you go ice fishing. Just not as loud
05:33 man was like "2014…not far long ago". i was like what the— then saw the video was uploaded 6 yrs ago lol
I recall reading a book by Thor Heyerdahl, called Aku Aku where they raised one of the Easter Island statues and reset the topknot (pukao) back in 1955.
Also, it wasn't weather and erosion that toppled the statues, they were knocked down by a tribe of slaves, called the short-ears, when they revolted and wiped out most of the long-ears. I did read the book nearly 30 years ago, so details are a little shaky.