Five Longtime Mysteries That Now Have Perfectly Reasonable Explanations [Video]

Just because something has been a mystery for hundreds of years doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s supernatural or extraterrestrial. It usually means that we just don’t have the know-how to figure it out …yet. The science of data detection, measurement, and analysis has grown by leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades. With new and powerful microscopes, telescopes, chemical analysis, geolocation, and DNA sequencing, we are busting mysteries left and right. For example, in 1997, scientists detected a low-frequency noise in the ocean they call the Bloop. It sounds like an animal, but is louder than any on earth can produce. Is there a sea monster in the depths we’ve never found? No, in 2012, it was determined that the sound is meteorological, not biological. It’s the normal sound of glaciers breaking.

It’s just one of five mysteries that you’ve read about on the ‘net that seemed really intriguing …