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Reading 3 B2 Intermediate-Avanced Unsolved mysteries 2
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READING 3 B2 INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED Unsolved mysteries
Unsolved mysteries
The winter of 1884 was an exceptionally cold one in southern England. One morning, people got up to find that the rivers had frozen over and a blanket of snow lay everywhere.
Then they noticed a mysterious line of footprints running up to their doors, through their yards and gardens, over rooftops, crossing fields, and covering an area of about 100 miles. The prints looked like donkey´s hooves, but they were in a single line as if the animal had been walking on two legs.
In the Nazca desert of southern Peru there is an amazing display of art laid out on the desert floor. Outlines of animals have been “drawn” by removing the dark stone layer which covers the desert to reveal the light-coloured sand underneath. There´s a bird which measures 390 feet across, a spider of 180 feet, a monkey, a whale, and other birds, fish, and strange plants. The pictures were not discovered until 1941, but they are thought to date from about A.D. 900. The strange thing is that these pictures can only be seen from the air.
On June 30, 1908, a farmer in Siberia was resting in his field. Suddenly, there was a great flash and explosion. There was so much heat, he said, it nearly burned the shirt off his back. A “huge ball of fire” covered an enormous part of the sky and afterward “it became very dark”.