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    Top 5 weirdest natural formations

    If your taste runs to the offbeat and quirky, these top 5 weirdest natural formations should be on your list of places to visit.

    5) Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah: This park, located in southwest Utah, is famous for its otherworldly geological formations. Rainwater and frost have carved slot canyons, fins and freestanding pinnacles called "hoodoos," out of the limestone rocks. Hoodoos can range from 5 to 150-feet tall. Native Americans believed hoodoos were people who were turned to stone because of bad deeds, so watch your step.

    4) Ringing Rocks Park, Bucks County, Pennsylvania: Get your rock on at Ringing Rocks -- a field filled with rocks that, well, ring like bells when you hit them with a hammer. Not all the rocks ring, though; only a third of the rocks in the area are "live." To this day, scientists are stumped as to why these rocks create such bell-like tones. Theories range from strange electromagnetic activity to aliens.

    3) Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: The Petrified Forest is home to plant and animal fossils that date back more than 200 million years. The park covers around 146 square miles and has one of the world's biggest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood. Dinosaur fossil have been found here as well -- Jurassic Park, anyone?

    2) Chimney Rock, Nebraska: This huge rock formation, which is taller than the Statue of Liberty, served as a natural signpost pointing "west" for thousands of settlers. Who needs GPS when you've got the Chimney Rock?

    1) Antelope Canyon, near Page, Arizona: Antelope Canyon, known by the Navajo as "The Place Where Water Runs Through Rocks," was carved out by flash floods. The colorful slot canyons can only be visited via a guided tour. The same flash floods that created the canyons can be dangerous during the rainy season.

     

    237 comments

    • Bill  •  4 mths ago
      God, that woman's voice is annoying! Was this video produced for pre-schoolers?
    • mutnarf  •  4 mths ago
      There are several “Chimney Rocks”, Nebraska has one, and North Carolina has one. Plus, there’s one in Colorado, and one in West Virginia and several others in other states. Soooo… quit #$%$ and get out and see these places, before you start ragging on Yahoo…
    • al s  •  Dallas, United States  •  5 mths ago
      hi iron content in the location causes the rocks to ring. iron, gold, cobalt, and other minerals were and are mined and found in the area(s)... rock hounds heaven, but work in the dark, so to speak...
    • Brett  •  Omaha, United States  •  5 mths ago
      #2 is Chimney Rock, NC not NE... :)
    • kstep15  •  5 mths ago
      Check out Island in the Sky, at Canyonlands National Park Utah. Unreal!!
    • Mike  •  Elmhurst, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Good god, the only thing worse than the "too cute for words" copy is the over-the-top delivery by copy reader, if "Perky" could kill, this would do it!
    • CHICKENONASTICK  •  Tuscaloosa, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Question: How do they know this or that was ".... hundred million years old"?
      Answer: They don't. They need that much time for the evidence to fit within their evolutionary framework.

      Don't say "carbon dating" or one of the other dating methods. That won't get you off the hook.
      Carbon dating assumes that no catastrophic changes or events took place in the "life" of the object.
      Yet, the evidence is quite the contrary, pointing to sudden changes brought on by catastrophic events.

      Proof of petrified wood in months, not millions of years, was found after the Mount St. Helen's explosion thirty years ago. Trees were blown into the lake and they were found petrified. That's a scientific fact. That's history. It does not take "millions and millions of years." It does not take evolution.

      Another example. Many scientists were saying the Grand Canyon must be 8 million years old before the Colorado was flooded many years ago. Following the massive amount of the canyon's walls that were washed away within days, the prevailing theories suddenly went from an estimated 8 million years to 8 thousand years.

      Note that wale fossils have been found literally "standing" vertically through several strata of soil in the walls of the Grand Canyon. These strata were said to represent millions of years of deposits each. Yet, how does a whale fossil, fully intact, get positioned vertically through several of them?
      Answer: A catastrophic, sudden event created the canyon walls, not millions of years of buildup.

      Note: Deposits of ocean organism are fond scattered over the plains far from salt water or even rivers out west. How does water get that far inland bearing these creatures and then those creatures be fossilized so quickly before they completely decay? Answer: Once again, a catastrophic event.

      Those structures out west were not carved by the artistic hand of time and wind. They were carved by water. The only onslaught of water deep enough, widespread enough, and forceful enough to accomplish this was the Great Flood of the Bible.
      • nicholas 5 mths ago
        Simple question
        Re : The Grand Canyon
        Acccording to you in a singlecatastrophic moment The Rio Colorado removed thousands of cubic miles of rock from the Colorado Plateau
        Where's your unconsolidated rubbble field ?
        The sad part of your rant is that you are so blinded by the light ( sorry Bruce ) of your man -made god that you can't on the Rim of the Canyon and appreciate the awesome amount of time that you're looking at
        btw 1
        While water is indeed a force of erosion , it's solidf form rather than it's liquid form does most of the damage
        Btw
        The Rims of the Canyon are made of Kaibab Limestone which due it's eroded sharp edges hiker call Cannibalistic LS ; it's 250 million years old
        The Cetacean Family doesn't appear in the world's oceans until about 25 million years ago
        Lastly catastrophic floods don't leave fossils in an undisturbed upright position
    • CHICKENONASTICK  •  5 mths ago
      Question: How do they know this or that was ".... hundred million years old"?
      Answer: They don't. They need that much time for the evidence to fit within their evolutionary framework.

      Don't say "carbon dating" or one of the other dating methods. That won't get you off the hook.
      Carbon dating assumes that no catastrophic changes or events took place in the "life" of the object.
      Yet, the evidence is quite the contrary, pointing to sudden changes brought on by catastrophic events.

      Proof of petrified wood in months, not millions of years, was found after the Mount St. Helen's explosion thirty years ago. Trees were blown into the lake and they were found petrified. That's a scientific fact. That's history. It does not take "millions and millions of years." It does not take evolution.

      Another example. Many scientists were saying the Grand Canyon must be 8 million years old before the Colorado was flooded many years ago. Following the massive amount of the canyon's walls that were washed away within days, the prevailing theories suddenly went from an estimated 8 million years to 8 thousand years.

      Note that wale fossils have been found literally "standing" vertically through several strata of soil in the walls of the Grand Canyon. These strata were said to represent millions of years of deposits each. Yet, how does a whale fossil, fully intact, get positioned vertically through several of them?
      Answer: A catastrophic, sudden event created the canyon walls, not millions of years of buildup.

      Note: Deposits of ocean organism are fond scattered over the plains far from salt water or even rivers out west. How does water get that far inland bearing these creatures and then those creatures be fossilized so quickly before they completely decay? Answer: Once again, a catastrophic event.

      Those structures out west were not carved by the artistic hand of time and wind. They were carved by water. The only onslaught of water deep enough, widespread enough, and forceful enough to accomplish this was the Great Flood of the Bible.
      • Free thinker 5 mths ago
        You were home-schooled.. It shows... Your collection of books is the most mistranslated worse edited books.
      • Matt C 5 mths ago
        I also suppose that the petrified forests in Antarctica were barried by the great flood that instantly froze in a million layers. I suppose the flood somehow explains the fact that we can see galaxies that are Billions of Light Years away? Believing in ancient texts is no longer an excuse for ignorance. And, Geaux Tigers!
      • Just Sayin 5 mths ago
        Subscribe to Netflix and watch the series of documentaries "How The Earth Was Made." It is filled with facts about what you have posted. There was never a great flood while man evolved into modern humans.
    • CHICKENONASTICK  •  Tuscaloosa, United States  •  5 mths ago
      testing one two three
    • william  •  5 mths ago
      "Who needs GPS when you've got the Chimney Rock?"

      Sadly - a lot of people need GPS if they don't know how to read a map, or know where the sun rises and sets, or know how to find the north star.
    • Ollie  •  Denver, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Toadstool Park in Nebraska should have been on list as well!
    • A very tired GOP member.  •  Pilot Point, United States  •  5 mths ago
      The Chimney Rock of Nebraska isnt half the size it used to be. You can thank nature for part of that. Rain, hail, snow, wind, etc. Then you can also thank the Nebraska National Guard for using it for target practice once. They clipped about 20 feet right off the top with their guns. That was real American...
    • jim  •  Richardson, United States  •  5 mths ago
      the writer has never been to montana where there are singing rocks also.
    • Mitchell S  •  5 mths ago
      these ain't that weird.
    • Road Chicken  •  5 mths ago
      I would have listened longer, but that woman's voice starts sounding like nails on a chalkboard after a few minutes...... Ewwwwww.
    • Grunge  •  5 mths ago
      You know what is cool? My keyboard has a "Mute" button for BS internet commercials!
    • Jake  •  Pittsburgh, United States  •  5 mths ago
      "hankering for a hoodoo" ...seriously? could the narrator be more cheesy?
    • TD  •  Salt Lake City, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Devil's Tower Wyoming should be on this list. I've been there several times and it doesn't look like it should be there. It looks like it was made by some type of machine.
      • william 5 mths ago
        I was there back in '95 - it is just downright freaky how that is a natural formation.
      • Jerome 5 mths ago
        "This means something..."
    • YAOLT  •  Twin Falls, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Just a few examples of Mother ANAHAUC's, this lands real name, beauty and glory and power. She is more glorious than those worthless lands mother europe mother africa and mother asia combined!
    • Tem  •  Lenexa, United States  •  5 mths ago
      What the hell is with your damn voice? Do you actually think that shit sounds good? JEsus I can't conventrate on the actual topic of the video moron. SSHUUUTTTTT UUUUUPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      • jim 5 mths ago
        awww she just trying to make buck
      • alec 5 mths ago
        what does JEsus have to do with it ? you are vermine scum!!!

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