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The Kaali Crater

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A meteorite crater on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, formed around 1500 BC — within the memory of people living nearby. The blast burned the forest for six kilometres, and the event probably entered Finnish and Norse mythology as the sun falling. The lake in the crater served as a sacrificial site for centuries: animal bones are found on the bed and around the shore, and a stone wall once enclosed it.

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Hill of Crosses

A hill in northern Lithuania covered with hundreds of thousands of crosses left by pilgrims since the 19th century. Soviet authorities bulldozed it three times — the crosses reappeared within nights each time.

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The Baltic Sea Anomaly

The Baltic Sea anomaly is an unusual disc-shaped geological formation measuring roughly 60 meters in diameter, resting at a depth of 85 to 90 meters on the seafloor of the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland. Discovered via side-scan sonar in June 2011 by the Swedish salvage team Ocean X, the structure visibly echoed the silhouette of a fictional spacecraft, triggering an international ufological sensation and years of alternative speculation.

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Herobrine

A character that was never in the game. In 2010 an anonymous user posted a Minecraft screenshot of a player figure with no pupils standing in fog, and a story that it was the creator's brother. The rumour outlived every denial: for years players sent in evidence — squares of felled forest, sand pyramids, tunnels nobody built — and the developers eventually took to adding "Removed Herobrine" to their patch notes as a joke, though there was nothing to remove. His code has never existed in any version of the game.

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