Chamber of Secrets

It really seems like every square inch of out holy planet earth has already been observe, discovered and thoroughly analyzed. But believe it or not, there are many places around the world that remain largely uncharted and full of mystery. It’s actually so intriguing that these places your about to see actually exist, making out earth stand out from any other planet ever discovered. Prepare to be amaze, because here are THE 5 MYSTERIOUS LOST WORLDS ON PLANET EARTH and ANIMALS THAT LIVE ONLY THERE.

1.) Challenger Deep.
The Challenger Deep is the deepest known point in the Earth’s seabed hydrosphere(the oceans), with a depth of 10,898 to 10,916 m (35,755 to 35,814 ft) by direct measurement from submersibles and slightly more by sonar bathymetry. It is located in the Pacific Ocean, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench near the Mariana Islands group. The Challenger Deep is a relatively small slot-shaped depression in the bottom of a considerably larger crescent-shaped oceanic trench, which itself is an unusually deep feature in the ocean floor. The Challenger Deep’s bottom is about 11 km (7 mi) long and 1.6 km (1 mi) wide, with gently sloping sides. The closest land to the Challenger Deep is Fais Island (one of the outer islands of Yap), 287 km (178 mi) southwest, and Guam, 304 km (189 mi) to the northeast. It is located in the ocean territory of the Federated States of Micronesia, 1.6 km (1 mi) from its border with ocean territory associated with Guam.

HMS Challenger
The slot was discovered during an expedition of the British Navy aboard the HMS Challenger. They were surveying areas in the Pacific Ocean from 1872 to 1876 when they found the slot.

How it was named
The name Challenger was in honor of the boat they were on. The term deep was used to describe places that were deep in the ocean. The Marianas Trench is located near the Mariana Islands and is 190 miles from Guam.

The first descent
The first manned descent to the oceans deepest point occurred in 1960. On January 23, 1960 a US Navy submersible Trieste manned by Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh descended to the bottom of the trench. The floor of the ocean where they descended to was 35,838 feet deep.

Other unmanned descents
The men stayed on the bottom only 20 minutes because of a crack in the glass of the bathyscaphe. Since then two unmanned deep-sea probes have been sent to study the area.

Challenger Deep prize
Today there is a prize being offered by the X Prize Foundation for any privately funded manned craft that travels to the bottom of the down to the bottom twice. The owners of the craft will receive a $10 million prize.

James Cameron’s solo dive
James Cameron in a solo dive went to the floor of the Challenger Deep. He recorded his trip in 3-D. It was on March 27, 2012. It took 7 years of preparation for his dive. The National Geographic Society helped James Cameron finance his dive. Because of the murky water he was not able to take a major set of pictures while he was on the floor of the Challenger Deep. He plans to return in the future with another mini-sub.

From the cold to the never-ending darkness and the unimaginable pressure, life in the deep is by no means easy. Some creatures, such as the dragonfish, produce their own light in order to attract prey, mates, or both. Others like the hatchet fish have evolved enormous eyes in order to try and catch as much of the scarce light that makes it that deep. Some creatures simply try and be avoided, which normally means either becoming translucent or red, because this absorbs any blue light that has managed to make its way down to the depths.

Then they also have to deal with the pressure and the cold, which in effect “sets” the fat that forms the membranes of the body’s cells. If left unchecked, it would cause the membranes to crack and break, so in order to get around this, deep sea creatures have lots of unsaturated fat in their membranes, which help to keep them fluid.

In recent years, deep-ocean dredges and unmanned subs have glimpsed exotic organisms such as shrimp-like amphipods, and strange, translucent animals called holothurians. But scientists say there are many new species awaiting discovery and many unanswered questions about how animals can survive in these extreme conditions. Scientists are particularly interested in microorganisms living in the trenches, which they say could lead to breakthroughs in biomedicine and biotechnology.

1.GUNGYWAMP, GROTON, CONN.

New England colonists found many stone buildings, when they arrived. Typically they were one story high, circular or rectangular and as long as 30 feet. Many had roof openings that allowed a little light to illuminate the interiors.
As a result, early mercenaries to the Northeast wrote about ‘Indian stone castles.’ They actually call them “Forts” big beautiful fortresses often made out of wonderful local stones like red sandstone.Many of them are in veritable perfect shape.Furthermore, John Winthrop the Younger in 1654 received a letter from John Pynchon of Springfield, Mass. Pynchon heard ‘a report of a stone wall and strong chamber in it, made all of stone, which is newly discovered at or near Pequot.’

Evidence has been discovered suggesting that the site was first used by Native Americans for centuries, and then later by colonial settlers. The stone foundations of colonial dwellings still stand in a few spots. All in all, a treasure trove of damned history.

Callibrated Carbon-14 Date: 556

Charcoal excavated under mill race fire-cracked rock dates to St.Brendan (ca., 486-578 AD)

Al Brown of the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center talks about the stone ring that makes up one of the different sites in the Gungywamp property in the woods of Groton.

“Inside the complex, a dry-walled stone chamber that hosts the sun’s ray has at least four solar alignments. The autumnal and vernal equinoxes and the summer and winter solstices are all marked by beams of light that illuminate the chamber in different ways.

The precise orientation to celestial events makes the chamber an ancient calendar, a Stonehenge of sorts. The chances of this being accidental are, no pun indented, astronomical. This screams of great antiquity,” says David Barron, president of the Gungywamp Society.

The largest intact chamber at Gungywamp has unusual affect on people.
Mr. Barron who regularly shows the site noticed that many people experience strange effects when entering the chamber.
Some people feel dizzy, other light-headed, some nauseated, and others get a strong headache.
Without doubt, the chamber has a negative effect on a person’s physical well-being.

The Cliff of tears inside the Gungywamp complex is an intriguing place which has been a scene of many strange phenomena.
This location sits on top of a massive deposit of pure iron ore in the form of the magnetite.
This ancient site is interesting for a number of reasons. People who visit the Cliff of tears experience various unpleasant physiological effects, unusual paranormal phenomena and there is reason to think the place serves as a buffer between our world and a parallel reality.

The Cliff of Tears got its name because people who visit the site suddenly start to cry for no discernible reason. Other visitors have experienced spontaneous nosebleeds, or sometimes even bleeding through their eyes, ears and fingernails.

Gungywamp is a most unusual Connecticut attraction. It’s a collection of strange unexplained stone structures and walls, of which little is known. When you ask the people who are the most knowledgeable about Gungywamp questions, often their answer is “we just don’t know”.

As you might expect, Gungywamp has been the focus of multiple professional archaeological explorations, which has unearthed a lot of information as well as everything from arrowheads and pottery fragments to coins and animal bones. One of the stone circles appears to have been a mill for extracting tannins, which would’ve been used in turning animal hides into leather. Some of the standing stones seem to be along astronomical line and could have been a calendar of sorts. The exact purposes of the chambers are unclear, but if the site was initially a sacred complex, then it’s possible the chambers used in various rituals. Later, they were used by settlers as root cellars, among other things.

Investigators have also discovered that the area around “The Cliff of Tears” has a very strong electromagnetic field, which would explain the many odd feelings and reactions by those who come in contact with it.

The 100-acre Gungywamp archaeological site in Groton, Conn., contains such stone structures as beehive chambers, petroglyphs, a double circle of stones, cellars and walls. All date back hundreds of years.
Some of the structures are thought to be Native American and perhaps had ceremonial functions. Colonial settlers built others with purposes such as root cellars and birthing chambers. Some features of the site suggest they were originally built as fortifications.

Gungywamp is not much less confusing or mysterious. A lithic stone pounding tool has been found there that dates to at least 1500 B.C, which is pre-tribal Indian. The site certainly has plenty of Indian artifacts which include arrowheads, stone flakes and pottery fragments. The Native American inhabitants may also be responsible for the stone circles which some believe are astronomical tools and which others believe are colonial mill or hide tanning areas.However, it is the multiple stone chambers that get people the most excited. Thought by most to be root cellars built by colonial settlers, they have some strange properties, including one designed to line up with the equinoxes, so that light shines though a small window. This seems not to fit with the work of colonial settlers. The 30-foot rock ledges, and eagle petroglyph only provide further mystery and confusion to the site.

There is plenty of speculation about the purpose of the Gungywamp stone structures. Some theorize that 8th-century Irish monks built certain structures. They argue ‘Gungywamp’ means ‘church of the people’ in Gaelic. Others say it is an Indian word.Gungywamp is an archaeological site in Groton, Connecticut, United States, consisting of artifacts dating from 2000-770 BC, a stone circle, and the remains of both Native American and colonial structures. Among multiple structural remains, of note is a stone chamber featuring an astronomical alignment during the equinoxes. Besides containing beehive chambers and petroglyphs, the Gungywamp site has a double circle of stones near its center, just north of two stone chambers. Two concentric circles of large quarried stones – 21 large slabs laid end to end are at the center of the site.
Gungywamp’s most famous chamber is the so-called ‘calendar chamber.’ Archaeologists suspect the colonists originally used it for storage for a nearby tan bark mill. A vent at one end of the chamber aligns with the spring and fall equinoxes. It thus allows a shaft of sunlight to fall directly on a smaller chamber within the larger structure.
Gungywamp is preserved, but many of the structures stand on private land. It can be toured virtually here. Visitors can tour the Gungywamp through the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center.little to dissuade those who believe Gungywamp to be a UFO influenced “energy vortex.”

“The name stuck and since that time we have discovered that a huge vein of magnetite, reversed in polarity, extends through the cliff. this has a significant effect on lowering blood pressure, causing a flow toward the extremites, fine capillaries, etc. ‘ I suspect this is one of the reason why birds avoid the area, since the lodestone confuses them and disorients them,” Mr. Barron explains.

In the summer of 1991, Charles Boyle, the late scientific researcher who was interested in ancient civilizations, visited the Gungywamp complex and experienced something that suggests this fascinating place could be a portal to another unknown world.

Gungywamp is located in Groton, Connecticut.

Most of it is in the shade. Some of it is on an incline — and decline. Some of it is rocky and some has a lot of fallen logs left over from two storms this year.

The walk is about 1-1/2 miles. It took about 1 hour and 45 minutes.

2.QUEEN’S FORT, EXETER, R.I.

The Queen’s Fort and Queen’s Bed Chamber in Exeter, R.I., have colorful legends about them. In its later years,Queen’s Fort is located Z2 in the northeast portion of the town of Exeter, Rhode Island. Standing at “f” the crest of a wooded hill, the structure consists of dry-laid stone wal1s.’’ now indisrepair set betweengroups of glacial boulders. The fort is traditionally associated with a Narragansett squaw sachem of the seventcenth century named Queen Quatapen and a Narragansett male known to the English as Stonewall John. Stonewall John’s reputation as a talented mason was real, and many writers have suggested that he, aided by Narragansetts Joyal to Quaiapen constructed the stone defense early in King Phillip’s Tho Fort is also reported to have been the site of the first punitive raids against the Narragansett Indians during King Phillip’s War.Built into the eastern wall of the fort is a bastion figure 2, while almost mid-way along the western wall lies a flanker. Of stone construction,each of these were common elements in the military technology of Europe of the period.2 Located west of the fort is a large cavern formed by groups of boulders known as the Queen’s Bed Chamber.he Queen’s Fort supposedly sheltered hermits and bandits.
The construction of a fire pit/grill made from stones similar in size and shape to the ones used to construct the spiral structure.old news, but the recent scattered beer cans and relatively fresh ash and smoke coating inside made us think that might be a recent repurposing of the stones originally in the spira, the boulder field on the top of the hill makes an impossible area for settlement or occupation.
Archaeologists and historians associate the fort with a man named Stonewall John, a talented stone mason who may have been Narragansett or English. He may have built the stone fort to protect King Philip during King Philip’s War (1675-78). The colonists made one of their first attacks on the fort during the war.
Within the fort a chamber – six square feet with a seven-foot ceiling and a sand floor – was perhaps built for the Narragansett queen Quaiapen (also called Matuntuck). She supposedly hid out at the site during King Phililp’s War before moving somewhere else, where she died. Some have also suspected that Quaiapen and Stonewall John were lovers.
“These are the remains of an Indian Fort still known by the name of Queen’s Fort, near the line between North Kingstown and Exeter; it is on the summit of a high hill completely covered with rocks, and the Fort appears to have been surrounded with a strong stone wall; there is a hollow in the rock which has been always known as the Queen’s bedroom, and a large room, the entrance of which is nearly concealed, which is supposed by tradition to have been a hiding place for the Indians, and in which arrow heads and other things have been found.” (Potter 1835:84).

3.AMERICAN STONEHENGE, SALEM, N.H.

They aim to honor Mother Earth.America’s Stonehenge is an archaeological site consisting of a number of large rocks and stone structures scattered around roughly 30 acres (120,000 m2) within the town of Salem, New Hampshire in the United States. It is open to the public for a fee as part of a recreational area which includes snowshoe trails and an alpaca farm. It is a tourist attraction with particular appeal to believers in New Age systems.
A number of hypotheses exist as to the origin and purpose of the structures. One viewpoint is a mixture of land-use practices of local farmers in the 18th and 19th centuries and construction of structures by owner William Goodwin in the 1930s.[1] Some claim that the site has a pre-Columbian European origin, but this is regarded as pseudoarchaeological or the result of an early-20th century hoax.[2] Archaeologist David Starbuck has said that “it is widely believed that Goodwin may have ‘created’ much of what is visible at the site today”.[3]:106
America’s Stonehenge is a 30-acre complex of standing stones, underground chambers and stone walls in North Salem, N.H. As the largest collection of stone structures in North America, it includes dolmens, or horizontal stone slabs on vertical stone uprights. It also has cromlechs, or circles of standing stones and barrows, or tombs. There’s a secret bed, an echoing oracle chamber, a sacrificial altar stone and a stone-lined speaking tube that gives the impression the altar is talking when someone speaks into it.
Radiocarbon dating confirms that pagans built the structures as many as 4,000 years ago.
The written record doesn’t mention the ancient stone structures until 1907, in History of Salem, New Hampshire by Edward Gilbert. He wrote that a family named Pattee owned the land, called Mystery Hill, and had many of the stones carted away for construction in Lawrence, Mass.
A retired insurance executive named William Goodwin bought the site in 1937. He had it excavated and became convinced Irish Culdee monks built the site about 1000 A.D. The monoliths are astronomically aligned, leading to the conclusion the stones were used as a prehistoric calendar.

4.UPTON STONE CHAMBER, UPTON, MASS

The largest and probably best known stone chamber in Massachusetts is the Upton Stone Chamber near Worcester in Upton.The Upton Cave has been described as one of the largest and most perfectly built of more than 300 stone chambers found throughout the Northeast. A six-foot-high, fourteen-foot-long tunnel leads into a hillside, to a beehive-shaped domed chamber of quarried stone measuring about twelve feet across and eleven feet high. The cave is topped with several large oval stones believed to weigh several tons each.
It includes a tunnel that connects to a roundish beehive room. A stone slab sits on top. In 1989, two archao-astronomists concluded that people used the chamber between 700-750 A.D. to study the Pleiades. Around 670 A.D., they used it to view the summer solstice.
Thirty miles away in Acton, an underground stone chamber in the Nashoba Brook Conservation Area is known as the ‘potato cave.’ Residents had long assumed the structure was a root cellar. A 2006 excavation found evidence people stored food in it in the 18th or 19th century. Some argue Indians built it before the colonists arrived. Still others say railroad workers lived in it during the 19th century.
A mystery becomes a community resource.

5.CALENDAR II, SOUTH WOODSTOCK, VT.

Eastern Vermont has some of the densest concentrations of ancient stone structures in North America. An inventory of Vermont’s stone chambers compiled by the New England Antiquities Research Association found 52 stone chambers. They discovered them in 23 towns in five Vermont counties, particularly Orange and Windsor.
The Calendar II chamber is in fact one of the biggest and best-known Stone Chambers in all New England. At the Calendar II chamber—so-called because of its Winter Solstice alignment—the megalithic stone roof slabs are the biggest I´ve seen in any of the Stone Chambers across New England, measuring more than 15 feet across and over a foot thick, probably weighing several tons each.
In 1975, a retired marine biologist from Harvard announced his discovery: On Vermont’s stone structures he found inscriptions in a dead Celtic language called Ogam. He concluded Celts from the Iberian peninsula carved them around 1000 BC. They all faced east and many had inscriptions. And some have symbolic markings, while others have Celtic place names.
But critics of the theory counter that Celts would have left other evidence that they’d settled in New England. But no one found any such evidence.
Still, Vermont farmers told stories of their great-grandfathers’ plows uncovering stone huts. So in 1977, the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation studied the stone chambers in the state. They concluded the stone structures did not serve as stone burial vaults, charcoal or lime kilns, potash burners or iron furnaces.
One of the biggest and best known stone chambers is called Calendar II in South Woodstock, Vt. Calendar II measures 10 feet by 20 feet on the inside, the same geometrical ratio as the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid. And the door aligns with the solstice sunrise.
A Norwich University professor studied aerial photographs of Vermont and discovered another mystery. He found odd hexagonal patterns made of stone walls and ditches. But many had no relation to current and traditional land use patterns. The mystery remains unsolved.