The Chimaera: the video
Creepy…
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January 26th, 2009 | Brendan | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Chimaera, nature, turkey
The Chimaera
One of the strangest natural phenomena I’ve ever seen is Turkey’s bizarre Chimaera, a hillside pockmarked with flames coming out of the ground. Seriously.
No, this is not some volcanic phenomenon we’re talking about, but a clean flame, as if there were some huge barbecue running under the hill. It’s not just one or two, either, but dozens of them, all over the hill, snaking out to crevices in the rocks. Seriously weird.
Gas leaks out of the earth here and somehow ignites spontaneously—if...
January 24th, 2009 | Brendan | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: adventure, Chimaera, nature, turkey
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