Hello , IFLScience here with another mystery thing that ’s been put in an unexpected position .
Late last year the mysteriousUtah monolith(yes , we ’re visit them monoliths despite them not being endocarp , we refuse to be the only news program organisation call it a big alloy " thingy " ) story occupied the world before mass get bored of monolith popping up everywhere then disappearing like the mole in whack - a - mole . The answer to that enigma appeared to be " art installation " fall out by many copycats .
Disappointing we recognise , but luckily , there are peck of other mysteries out there to sink your teeth into . Take , for example , the mystery of why butt plug were manufacture .
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Take , for a better example , the mystery of the Mojave Desert Megaphone .
In the midsection of the Mojave Desert , just a unforesightful journeying from the ghost town of Crucero , California ( for extra spook ) , on top of a rough pitcher’s mound you will find a jumbo corrode " megaphone " bolt to two rock , with a crosshair inside . The rusted megaphone has been sat there in the middle of nowhere for years , most likely X . The8 - foot(2.4 - meter ) long metallic element cone is cumbersome and would have required a lot of attempt to put it there in the desert with no road access . So why make the exertion ?
The reply to that is nobody know why , though plenty of people have put forward their best guesses . Of course , some have evoke it ’s aliens ( they always do ) , or some form of gem function – one destruction of the pipe point at a hill with petroglyph carve into rock , peradventure created by the Chemehuevi peoplehundreds of years ago .
" The purpose of the mystery sentinel is anyone ’s speculation , but one explanation is that it was related to chemical weapons testing , " Eric Edwards , the founder of CampsitePhotos write in ablog post . " Such trial run were conducted in secret and outside domain of the Mojave Desert in the 1940s and ' 50s . "
In November 1943 the US Navy lay up a exam station near the town of Inyokern . With the codename " Project Camel " , and cooperate with theManhattan Project , the site was used to produce skyrocket and aircraft weaponry before being used to trial the paths of model nuclear bombs being knock off from B-29 Superfortress hoagie – the type that would finally drop atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki .
As such , it ’s been mooted that it ’s potential the " megaphone " was in fact a siren , used to warn personnel to clear out an area before a test was conducted .
Sarah Robey , a account professor at Idaho State University , however , doubts it . " The early Cold War version almost always have a orthogonal mouth , WW2 - epoch air raid sirens did n’t really await like that either , even the ones that were more cylindrical , " shetold How Stuff Works .
Robey propose that itcouldbe related to the tests conducted here , but a measurement legal document , for instance for detecting retentive - range blow waves . " However , I kind of doubt it . "
So until someone steps frontwards , or the net sleuths get on it , we ’re left with the Mojave Megaphone Mystery .
[ H / T : How Stuff Works ]
