Unexplained phenomena

The literature has gathered a great many accounts of unexplained natural phenomena that are placed in the category of the "anomalous". Unexplained phenomena are called unexplained for the very reason that physics and the other sciences have not yet been able to say why they take place. Anomalous phenomena such as teleportation, telekinesis, levitation, the reading of thoughts at a distance, the foreseeing of future events, dowsing, bioenergetics and the rest usually frighten the ordinary person precisely because they cannot be predicted. They frighten us. They turn upside down our own picture of the world, until then unshakeable and resting on mathematical formulas and physical laws. There are many astonishing things and unusual materials in the world, but these have a fair claim to a place in the category “the most astonishing of all the ones people have thought up”. Of course these substances “break” the rules of physics only at first sight; in fact everything has long since been explained scientifically, which does not make the substances any less astonishing.
Unexplained phenomena in an American collider. The results have recently been published of a physics experiment that left even the scientists themselves at a loss. It all happened in the USA, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where an elementary-particle accelerator has been running for more than 10 years.   More... Such is the nature of the human mind that everything unknown, everything that does not fit within the bounds of common sense, arouses panic and a trembling melancholy. And you will agree that in our age of high technology and a surfeit of information it seems that anomalous, unexplained phenomena have only grown more numerous. Pythagoras explained the basic principles of coming to know things to his pupils like this: - here, I have drawn you a circle; let it stand for your knowledge of the world around you. And this, - he said, drawing round the first an even larger circle, so that the first circle lay inside the second, - this is the whole realm of knowledge that I possess. The boundary of the circle is the line with your knowledge on one side of it and, on the other side, the knowledge that I can give you. Beyond the line of my circle – the unknown, the unexplained, the unfathomed…. Now look: you see that the greater the area of the circle becomes, that is, the greater your knowledge, the longer the line separating you from the unknown will become! In other words, the more you know, the more questions will arise before you.  This section of our site is meant to help the visitor shed light on everything he takes for anomalous, unexplained phenomena, or in other words for a mystery. Teleportation is the instantaneous transfer of material objects from one point to another without any visible application of physical force.
Until recently science ignored the idea that teleportation exists in nature. In the last few years teleportation has begun to be spoken of in the scientific world too, above all among nuclear physicists, and then only in connection with infinitely small particles of matter, which may be regarded as immaterial and therefore as no barrier to an instantaneous displacement on the same microscopic scale.  More...
More... In an open pit worked for uranium deposits, more than a dozen zones have been found where nuclear reactions once took place. Natural fission reactors have been found only in the heart of Africa — in Gabon, at Oklo and in the neighbouring uranium mines at Okélobondo and at the Bangombé site about 35 km away.
More... More... More... Deep space — the galaxies are “running apart” faster than theory provides for. 

For all the achievements of science, there are still a good many blank spots in it. The magazine New Scientist has published a list of puzzling phenomena that scientists are unable to explain...
More... One of the least studied natural phenomena is ball lightning. The first mention of it dates from the 6th century, in the writings of Bishop Gregory of Tours.

Since then tens of thousands of eyewitness accounts of encounters with ball lightning have been collected. 
More... For all the ever-rising level of technology, nature still holds unexplained and little-studied phenomena. One of them is the Naga fireballs.
More... One of the puzzling events in the “life” of our planet is the fall of the Tunguska meteorite, early on the morning of 30 June 1908 near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river in Eastern Siberia.  More... One of the interesting optical phenomena is the halo. The term comes from the ancient Greek word halos, which means a disc, a circle, a nimbus.
More... For many decades the legendary Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean has captured the human imagination because of the unexplained disappearances of ships, aircraft and people.

To the south-west of Lake Maracaibo an unforgettable sight can be watched - a powerful and almost continuous thunderstorm - up to 20000 flashes of lightning in a night. This is the famous Catatumbo lightning  - the most continuous thunderstorm in the world.