
No.01 · Cameroon
Lake Nyos
The lake that breathed out death.
On the night of August 21, 1986, a quiet lake released a cloud you could not see or smell. By morning, about 1,700 people were dead in the villages below, and nothing had burned.
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No.01 · Cameroon
The lake that breathed out death.
On the night of August 21, 1986, a quiet lake released a cloud you could not see or smell. By morning, about 1,700 people were dead in the villages below, and nothing had burned.

No.02 · Greenland
The city the Army buried under the ice.
In 2024, a NASA radar flying over Greenland saw something more than 30 meters under the ice: a secret base, and everything that was left inside it.

No.03 · California
The hottest place ever measured.
In July 1996, a family of four drove into the valley in a rented minivan. Their van was found three months later, with three flat tires and nobody inside.
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