Cursed Objects That Scientists Fear

Science is humanity's endless quest to discover and understand the world around us, but there are some things in this world that even the most avid

scientists

regret having discovered, from what hides in the deepest depths of Chernobyl to a mysterious sphere that can take decades off your life. life in the blink of an eye, well I guess it's time to grab the holy water and buckle up as we take a look at the

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objects

that science should have left alone. At the climax of World War II, the United States military dropped two atomic bombs. bombs known as Little Boy and Fat Man on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the resulting devastation forced Japan to surrender, but if Japan had not surrendered, the United States had a third atomic bomb in store, although it was technically just the radioactive heart of the bomb. which had been built with a subcritical mass of plutonium of 14 pounds and about three and a half inches in diameter after World War II ended.

The plutonium core was retained at the Los Alamos Research Center for testing. He was affectionately nicknamed Rufus, however, shortly after a series of deaths. It would receive a new name, demon core, because it was designed to be placed in a bomb. The plutonium mass had only a small margin before becoming super critical. This is where the bomb would achieve an exponential nuclear chain reaction, in simpler terms, big bada. Boom

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would test how close the bomb was to a subcritical state by lowering a half-layer of beryllium known as the tamper onto the plutonium core. The rammer would reflect the neutrons emitted by the radioactive plutonium and shoot them back into the core, causing more neutrons to come out.

Isotopes, like nuclear ping-pong, would be removed from plutonium. This would result in a short-lived nuclear chain reaction in which physicists could collect data on safety regulations. It required spacers to be inserted between the rammer and the core. This made the entire process much slower, but if the handling and the core made full contact, the plutonium would become super critical and all that would be left of the Los Alamos facility would be a black scorch mark on the ground; However, one Daredevil scientist, Louis Slotton, decided to use a faster and riskier method: he discarded the spacers and instead used his trusty flathead screwdriver to fit between the manipulator and the core, knowing how stupidly dangerous it was. .

Lewis nicknamed this method tickling the Dragon's Tail man. I can enjoy a game of Buzz the Wire, but you'd have to have nerves of steel. play it with a plutonium nucleus, although Lewis was confident in his method, perhaps too much, which led him to make a deadly mistake on May 21, 1946. Lewis was demonstrating his method with the screwdriver to several other scientists when suddenly the screwdriver He slipped and everyone froze. A hot flash of blue light filled the room. Lewis quickly removed the tamper from the exposed core, but it was too late in that split-second contact between the tamper and the core.

It is estimated that a total of three quadrillion fission reactions took place, this was about one million. times smaller than those first atomic bombs, but it was still deadly and in that instant his life had been shortened from decades to mere days. This action released an intense burst of radiation, highly energized ionized atoms and these radioactive atoms can tear through DNA like a wrecking ball. Therefore, our DNA is held together in chromosomes, billions of genetic building blocks linked in a chain with precise sequences to code together the cells that make up our bodies, but high-energy radioactive particles can destroy or alter the links that make up our DNA.

This may result in tissue. Broken or mutated DNA sequences that cause cancer cells to start spreading, that's why radiation is so dangerous that it corrupts our bodies on a fundamental level, which is why scientists were rushed to the hospital to be examined. Fortunately, most scientists were further back in the world. room and received lower doses of radiation, however, Lewis had been placed right in front of the core now for perspective, a fatal dose of radiation is 500 REM. Lewis' entire body had been hit with a horrific 2,100 REM, barrage of neutrons, gamma rays, and x-rays. Unfortunately, this massive dose of radiation did not result in Hulk-like superpowers, but rather Lewis's body began to fall apart, the hand that had been closest to the core turned blue and developed huge blisters, his white blood cell count plummeted, and his entire immune system plummeted.

Wiped out by radiation Lewis fell into a coma and nine days after the incident he died. Lewis' death was tragic; However, it had been eerily foreshadowed just nine months before that his co-worker Harry Daglin Jr. had been experimenting with tungsten carbide blocks in the plutonium core. Harry dropped one of the blocks and the core briefly went critical before After the block was hastily removed a month later, Harry also died of acute radiation sickness after it claimed two lives. Experimentation with the demonic core was prohibited. Los Alamos records claim that the core was melted down and transformed into a new weapon in the summer of 1964.

Fortunately, this

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experiment was left in the last century. In many Western media, Russia is described as a harsh, cold and bitterly frozen place, which is not surprising as 65 percent of Russia's land mass is covered in permafrost, just as its name suggests, a permafrost is a Permanently frozen ground that never thaws, kept in a deep freeze by regions with a sub-zero Celsius climate, however, as temperatures rise due to climate change, Russia's cold landscape is beginning to thaw. and now strange things that were once lost beneath the ice are slowly being revealed, such as in the Yamalo Nanette region, a remote corner of Siberia where in 2016 1,200 reindeer were suddenly found dead.

Officials first blamed the reindeer's mysterious deaths on a heat wave that had hit the area as temperatures had soared from an average of 21.2 degrees Fahrenheit to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, but then locals in the area began to to get sick. Thirteen people were hospitalized with black skin ulcers. Did someone awaken an ancient curse? What was this strange phenomenon that plagued the earth? Well, the scientists put on their protective suits and went to investigate. There they discovered a reindeer that, curiously, had not died recently, but was a frozen corpse about 75 years old. It had previously been hidden under permafrost, but was thought of during the heat wave and scientists.

They were sure happy in their hazmat suits because touching this dead body, much less breathing near it, could have resulted in a lethal infection. It turned out that this zombie deer was plagued with a deadly bacteria known as Silas y thracus. This bacteria is found naturally in soil in many parts of the world, from the Americas to Asia, but once a living organism is infected, the bacteria's spores multiply rapidly in the body and release toxins that cause serious illness. of a disease you've probably heard about and learned to

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anthrax. Now the lethality of the infection depends on how the spores enter the body.

The most common route of the disease is through a small cut in the skin, which can cause painful red bumps that turn into black sores. Although this is the mildest form of infection, consuming undercooked meat from an infected animal can spread the disease. The spores enter the intestinal tract, causing severe vomiting, fever, and abdominal pain. However, the deadliest form of the disease occurs when the spores are inhaled without treatment. Inhaled anthrax has a disturbingly high mortality rate of 85 percent. The spores quickly colonize the lungs, causing flu-like symptoms. followed by chest pains and difficulty breathing and, like an ancient curse, anthrax spores can lurk in the environment for a long time, remaining dormant even in the temperatures of Siberian permafrost for up to 105 years, although crystals and salt does not protect them.

Vaccines against the anthrax curse will work and are administered annually to the local deer population, meaning Santa's now long-lost, now cursed and safe craters. Anthrax infestations are not the only thing that scares scientists in the Siberian permafrost. Even stranger things are being unearthed. Like these colossal-sized craters that started appearing out of nowhere, this giant hole was discovered by a helicopter flying over the Yamal Peninsula in 2014, having simply appeared out of nowhere or from the Earth. One day, the crater measured 66 feet wide and 171 feet deep. Aside from its enormous size, it worried scientists who had studied Siberian permafrost for decades and had never seen anything like it.

Craters like this don't appear out of nowhere, so something shot out of this hellhole, a bomb, a demon, a new super strain of anthrax. Well, when the scientists examined the area, they found that the plants surrounding the hole had been incinerated, their exposed roots had burn marks, but don't worry, this was not a result of the Hellfire, but rather the scientists deduced that it was the result of a methane gas explosion. that this large expanse of permafrost is also a gigantic reserve of natural gas. However, thanks to climate change, the permafrost ice sheet is gradually melting and this methane gas is exploding explosively to the surface.

Let's hope that the Siberian permafrost does not melt further as between deadly plagues and volatile explosions. The next thing released could be a curse that ends the world, well between a demonic core, a zombie virus and hellholes, what do you

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most for the core? cool fact, what horrors are we about to unearth next, ask the devil in the details in 1697 a huge fire broke out in the Swedish Royal Library in Stockholm, many precious manuscripts were lost in the fire, but a large medieval tome of some It was somehow saved from the fire, but that may be because it had something to do with the hellfire in the first place, since this cursed object is known as The Devil's Bible.

Its official name is Codex gigas, which in Latin means giant book. An appropriate name as it is a massive 36 inch manuscript. long, 20 inches wide and 8.7 inches thick, it is composed of 310 pages of parchment, also known as dried animal skin. Codex gigas is said to have taken the skin of 160 donkeys to make, but I feel sorry for the librarian who had to carry this book everywhere. Weighing a staggering 165 pounds, if the librarian was five feet ten inches tall, then they would probably balance the Codex gigas on the scales; However, the most cursed aspect of this medieval book is what is hidden on page 290.

There, in meticulous detail, is a portrait. spanning the entire page of the devil himself, contrasts with an opposite page depicting the kingdom of heaven where the two pages symbolizing the battle between good and evil, although eerily, the page of the devil's portrait has a darker tone than the rest of the book, that's because Vellum reacts to ultraviolet light and tans. A darker page means it is frequently exposed to light, so for over 300 years people have been looking at the Devil more than any other page, which is a morbid curiosity if there ever was one. This book is now believed to be the work of scribe Hermann the Recluse.

Legend claims that this wayward monk was condemned to be buried alive in the monastery walls, but in exchange for his life he promised the abbot that he would write a book summarizing everything. human knowledge in just one night, an impossible task. since scientists have estimated that the amount of writing contained in the Codex would have taken a man five years of writing six hours a day for six days a week to complete and that is without taking into account the strict schedule of a monk who It requires time for the daily tasks of prayer. and meals, which means that it is unfeasible that a monk could have completed this book in less than 20 years;

However, throughout the entire manuscript, the writing remains eerily the same, the curves and strokes of the writing changing naturally with age, mood and illness, imagine if he started writing an essay. today and continued writing it for 20 years, your handwriting would be unrecognizable at the end just like yourhand and yet, despite the science throughout the devil's book, Herman's handwriting is eerily the same, as if he wrote it all in one night, legend describes that Hermann sold his soul to the devil in exchange for completing the Codex gigas and although a viable explanation currently eludes scientists, I think it's safe to say that no one should touch this book unless they want to make a deal with the Devil rappers challenging the Hip-Hop star. post Malone 2018 was a really terrible year in August, the crash of his private jet landed on the tarmac, a few days later his old house was invaded by armed robbers and just a week later the rapper was involved in a car accident, some called it bad luck, others.

He claimed it was a curse, just two months earlier the publication had come into contact with the dibbuk. The box was widely circulated on the Internet as the most haunted object in the world. This old display case is supposedly inhabited by a dibbuk, a cruel and twisted spirit from Jewish mythology to contain the spirit. The Shema, a prayer considered one of the most important in Judaism, is carved into the wood on the back of the box. The box itself first came to the world's attention in 2003, when furniture dealer Kevin Manis put the occult display case up for sale.

On eBay, in the lengthy description below the haunted item, he described that he had purchased the box from the granddaughter of a recently deceased Jewish refugee who had escaped from German-occupied Poland. After this, the Internet became fascinated with the potentially possessed cabinet that not even science could explain the series of misfortunes that Kevin claimed happened to anyone who owned the Box, except we need to talk about it. Kevin Manis also has a background in advertising and a great passion for writing fiction when asked about this in an interview in 2021. Kevin Kane cleaned up and admitted the dibbuk. the box was a total hoax, the creepy backstory and reported hauntings were all Kevin's work of horror fiction, at least this is a supposedly cursed object that scientists can sit back and relax with, since it's totally fake, so it would seem that after Malone's horrible 2018 it was just one. really unfortunate year, well that's apart from the record-breaking, five-times platinum album he released that year I guess the universe has to keep things in balance somehow, the world's deadliest selfie on April 26, 1986 plant operators were performing a routine maintenance check on Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant they planned to test the electrical systems and shut down vital cooling systems to prevent them from interfering with the test, which was against of safety regulations.

This caused a catastrophic power surge and reactor 4 exploded, the core melted, it was so hot that the nuclear reactor itself literally started working. Workers at the burned plant rushed to shut down the reactor when it began spewing chunks of radioactive metal into the atmosphere, while citizens of nearby Pripyat had to be evacuated, but it wasn't until an emergency team returned about six months ago. After the explosion they discovered the most dangerous waste in the world. The crew had managed to access a steam corridor beneath reactor 4. As they entered, their Geiger counters began to crackle loudly warning them not to approach a massive mass at the end of the corridor.

Using a remote camera installed, they measured the mass and it was six and a half feet wide, which meant it weighed at least 100 tons. It also emitted 10,000 Rowan Gins per hour, the same radioactive exposure as more than four and a half million chests. -rays remaining next to it for just two minutes would expose it to a lethal amount of radiation it was called elephant's foot An appropriate name to describe the wrinkled and cracked appearance of corium mud corium is a lava-like material resulting from when The reactor began to burn through the concrete floor and consists of melted graphite control rods.

Nuclear fuel and molten concrete. To reach its location, this radioactive sludge burned through at least 6.6 feet of reinforced concrete, and a decade later it was still lethal to be near a single nuclear unit. The inspector known as Artur Cornev has been trying to conquer the elephant's foot since it was first discovered. He has returned numerous times to photograph the Beast despite the radioactive danger. The most famous photo of the elephant's foot is Arthur's slow shutter speed selfie. his moving figure in the frame right here, however, the grainy texture of the photograph is not a creepy filter, but is the effect of radiation warping the film itself and if that is the effect on the film, you can only imagine the impact on Arthur's DNA, but incredibly.

Arthur is still alive, the elephant's foot is a truly cursed object, and one touch of this pile of radioactive waste is guaranteed to warp your DNA enough to send you straight to the hospital. Forget the scientists. I'm afraid of this thing lurking in Hollywood. Hollywood rarely resembles real life. In fact, most movies based on a true story are completely exaggerated works of fiction, although when it comes to The Conjuring franchise, it turns out that the real-life story is much scarier than the film's many jump scares, believe it or not, in the horror movie that Annabelle is based on.

About the story of a real-life demonic doll, the real Raggedy Ann doll was given to a young nurse named Donna in 1970, although when the doll was in her house it seemed to move on its own, the doll kept appearing in different places since where it was placed shortly after it was reported that Donna's boyfriend mysteriously received a set of red claw marks on his chest the following night. Famous demonologists Elizabeth and Ed Warren were consulted about the case and the Warrens concluded that everyone's ability apparently also teleported. As the mark of the beast on Donna's boyfriend's chest was a clear sign of demonic possession, the Warrens locked the doll inside a specially made glass display case and regularly recited the Lord's Prayer to contain the demon.

A sinister story indeed, although skeptics between the two may already be questioning the extent to which it is true, after all, demonology can hardly be classified as a science and, on the other hand, no scientist has been brave enough to take the Annabelle doll to a laboratory to test foreign attacks. Look at this jar, can you guess what it contains about four years ago? Viral rumors spread on the Internet that scientists feared this substance more than any other. Apparently, coming into contact with just 0.02 grams was enough to cause instant death. So what is so deadly that it was stored in a vial and sealed in an airtight bucket? of super acidic plastic poison gas, the ultimate hot sauce, well, it's actually 0.02 grams of the zagami meteorite, a small fragment of the largest Martian meteorite to ever land on Earth, and as for the rumors that this It is the deadliest substance on Earth, well, that's another internet.

LIE, there's nothing deadly about touching this meteorite unless, of course, you're hit by the one coming at you from outer space at a staggering 44 miles per second, when they're not on their way to turning your head into a pancake. in average meteorites. They're less radioactive than typical Earth rocks, so it looks like scientists will happily handle this object for a change, but if you want to see which substances are really deadly in amounts less than 0.02 grams, check out my video on the subject that it will really help you. Not all mummies use bandages, but other mummies can be found in the frozen aisle, like this mummy popsicle, also known as oatmeal.

The Ice Man More than 5,300 years ago, the body of this prehistoric man was freeze-dried. in the Italian Alps, preventing him from decomposing after a glacier buried the body for more than five millennia; However, in 1991, an exceptionally warm summer melted the ice and exposed the remains of Oatsey which were discovered by a pair of hikers passing through the area, although the hikers soon wished they had left Otsi sleeping in the ice after his discovery. . A curse appeared to hit all those who tried to find out more about him. First came the sudden death of Rainer Hen, the head of the forensic team examining Otsi who had collected the The following year, Gallina was fatally injured in a car accident when she was on her way to give a lecture on Otsi.

At first, no one thought much about it, but then alpine guide Kurt Fritz, who had led Dr. The ice mummy's remains later perished in an avalanche, while Helmut Simon, one of the hikers who had originally found to Otsi, fell during a snowstorm in 2004 and did not survive, which is even more chilling for the journalists who filmed Oatsi's retreat from the mountain, Rainer Holzel passed. Thanks to a brain tumor a few months after releasing a documentary about the Ice Man, this body count continued to rise, but it didn't end there in 2005, archaeologist Conrad Spindler, who had first inspected Oatsi's remains, passed due to medical complications.

Oatesi's curse then claimed the final victim, Dr. Tom Loy, was about to finish a book summarizing his findings on Oatesi when he was found dead in his apartment. It seems that as soon as someone discovers something about this ice mom, the curse claims them, although it is easy to see patterns when we are looking for them since, despite the series of terrifying coincidences, many other journalists and archaeologists have studied the remains of OC and are still around to tell the story today. Altsy now rests in a refrigerated room at the South Tyrell Archaeological Museum in Bolzano, Italy, and there are no other victims.

The curse has been reported, perhaps it's because Ulti is happy to be back in his ice box. Which do you think was the most cursed object and which would you be most afraid to touch? Let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching.