Top 10 times Nature Cried Blood

Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet… I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking the Top 10 times Nature Cried Blood… yes…what a dramatic title. We are doing it though…all before we do, I just want to remind you guys we have merch for sale at most amazing Shop.com! Also, if you like our content, please do hit that thumbs up button. 10 - Bleeding Banana There have been a number of cases of bleeding bananas …in June 2016 a 34 year old woman in Austria opened up a banana she had bought at a local store. She shared the image of the bloody banana on social media and was contacted by local news outlets for interview. She said "A piece of it was completely red all the way through.” While nobody could seem to find an answer for why the banana was bleeding, some suggested it could be algae or a blood injection. Ergh! A similar thing happened to a boy who tucked into a banana in New Zealand. This lake turned from green to blood red at number 9 Lake Urmia in Iran started crying blood in July 2016. In April of the same year, Nasa’s Aqua satellite captured the lake looking gloriously green…so what happened? Well it seems that hot weather mixed with the waters high salt concertation encouraged a certain algae to breed, which turned the water red. The blood red lake is pretty metaphorical too; as a result of global warming and high water consumption, the lake is shrinking and its inhabitants are dying off. In Sydney, one of the cities most popular beaches was closed as the water turned to blood at number 8 That pesky algae was at it again, making it look as if the ocean has turned to blood. The water on Clovelly beach in Sydney turned a dramatic blood red in February 2016. Tourists reportedly feared the water was red as a result of a killer shark. 7 - Blood Wood Tree The Blood Wood Tree is a kind of teak tree that has been given its name for obvious reasons. The tree is officially called a ptero-carpus ango-lensis and can be found across some regions of Africa, where local tribes hail it as magical. Why? Well when one of these trees is felled, it releases a deep red sap that looks like congealed human blood. The reason the tree releases this sap is even creepier, apparently the sap is supposed to heal cuts and gapes in the wood. Obviously when one is fully cut, no amount of crying sap can help. Can you imagine the humans who first discovered that the trees did this? Pretty horrifying. 6 - Tree that cries blood for a martyr In Iran, residents believe a miracle tree in Qazween city cries blood. The tree allegedly cries blood on the evening of Ashura, the climax of the remembrance of Muharram. These pictures were published in the Alminbar magazine and are pretty crazy. Oh, meet the blood squirting lizard at number 5 – So, apparently, if it has to, the horned lizard can shoot blood out of its eyes. Why? Well apparently it is preyed on by a lot of predators, which means it has a weird array of defences in its arsenal. Basically, this isn’t just any blood…this is nasty tasting blood! The lizard shoots it from its eyes and into the mouths of predators if it ever HAS to. This makes the predator instantly regret its choice of prey and back off. Nasty tasting blood…sweet. Oh, hello there creepy bleeding fungus. You are unideal...check it out at number 4 Officially called the Hydnellum Peckii, the horrifying appearance of this non toxic fungus has garnered it several unpleasant nicknames, including Bleeding Tooth Fungus, Devils Tooth and Red-juice tooth. Yes…you heard a lot of references to teeth there ….not only does this devil mushroom bleed, it has blooming nashers! The underside of the fungus has tooth like spines, but the topside is where all the drama is at…. It has tiny pores that oozes a thick red fluid, a lot like blood. Ergh! Surprisingly, this un fun looking fungus isn’t poisonous. 3 - Omaha Beach Bloody Stones France’s Omaha beach has a bloody history, it was the site of one of the D-Day Landings, instrumental in World War Two. Between 3 and 4 thousand men lost their lives on the 6th June 1944. Now, over 70 years later, tourists have regularly spotted bleeding stones on that very same beach. While the “Blood” is likely just sedimentary deposits from rocks, it certainly is a stark reminder of the dark history of one of France’s most famous beaches. 2 - Blood Falls. Say hiii to Blood Falls in Antarctica…probably the best visual metaphor for global warming…the glaciers are actually crying blood. No joke, the glacier is called Taylor Glacier and these pictures are fulfilling all of my environmental Look What You Made Me Do dreams in the saddest of ironic ways. The bloody glacier was discovered in 1911 but it has got more dramatic over the years as the ice melts. Not actually blood, the fluid coming from the lacier is iron rich hyper saline water. Can you imagine being Griffith Taylor,the Australian geologist who found this glacier? I’d be terrified even though it does have a logical cause. Finally at number 1…. We have Blood Rain…literally clouds crying blood. Blood rain has been reported throughout history and is pretty biblical in essence. Most famously in recent years, in 2001 in India, Blood rain poured down in Kerala. Locals were perturbed when the rainy season brought about red downpours between July and September. The phenomenon has been reported as recently as 2012. It is believed that the rain is coloured by airbourne spores, although most locals are convinced they’re being pelted with blood. I would be terrified! So that was the Top 10 times Nature Cried Blood…what do you think to this list? Do you believe the Scientific explainations