What’s Hidden Behind Niagara Falls?

Is there anyone on earth who doesn’t dream of seeing Niagara Falls I don’t think so every year this natural wonder is visited by about 14 million tourists everyone dreams of taking a photo here refreshing themselves in the cool spray of the waterfall and of course tossing in a coin for luck

It would seem what mysteries could possibly be hiding in a place with such a huge flow of people it turns out it still has its secrets some of them are pretty eerie but I still try to unravel them today I’m going to tell you something that likely isn’t told in

Geography lessons we’re going to visit one of the most terrifying places within the vicinity of the waterfall then we’re going to learn about the brave people who risk their lives for the sake of conquering a dangerous element will then walk along the bed of the Niagara River and discover many interesting things

It’s time to get out your raincoats that journey begins we used to refer to it simply as Niagara Falls but in fact this is a whole complex of waterfalls on the Niagara River Horseshoe Falls is a waterfall located in the Canadian province of Ontario and American Falls

And bridal veil falls in the state of New York USA Niagara Falls serves as a kind of border between the two countries its history began about 16,000 years ago during the last ice age at that time the northern regions of the North American continent were covered by

A glacier more than a kilometer and a half or one mile thick when the ice retreated the Great Lakes were formed about 12,000 years ago the water’s flowing from the lakes made a path for themselves later cutting a channel the Niagara River the lakes were arranged in

A cascade and the water flowed from one to the other this is how one of the world’s most famous Waterfalls was born today its size is admired you can draw a parallel between it and the world’s most famous attractions for example the height of Niagara Falls can be compared to the Arc

De Triomphe in Paris or the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa and the speed of its flow is so incredible that it’s comparable to a tsunami it would take the average family about seven and a half years to use up the volume of water that flows through Niagara Falls in just

One second but what’s hidden behind this mighty column of water I’ll start with the fact that Devil’s Hole is located on the territory of the National Park this is the name of a cave which it’s best to steer clear of this may not seem very scientific but it’s believed that evil

Spirits live here and for anyone who dares to climb inside trouble awaits it sounds improbable but even in the guidebooks this place is not recommended to visit fatal accidents always happen here the sinister power of the cave was tested in the 17th century by the famous explorer of North America

LaSalle legend has it that an evil spirit spoke to him and ordered him to return home immediately and end his expeditions and exploration of the world the traveler ran out of the cave in horror but chose not to believe the evil spirit he continued to conquer new lands

Bad luck came to him one by one diseases pirates shipwrecks but LaSalle continued his expedition unfortunately somewhere off the coast of Texas it all came to an end tired sailors mutiny and simply killed their leader the predictions of the evil spirit came true we can only wonder if

It was just a beautiful legend or really the machinations of the same spirit but in the 18th century something much worse and here in the year 1763 81 British soldiers met their death here they were attacked by the Seneca Indian tribe the natives outnumbered their opponents by at least

Three and a half to one the outcome of the battle was predictable some were killed some were thrown into the abyss then the horses and wagons were also thrown in after this terrible story the place was considered cursed there’s another feature of the waterfall the fact is that in the summer the water

Flow becomes weaker than in other seasons and at night it generally decreases by half who or what is stealing the water from the waterfall it turns out that these are power plants a strict schedule for water intake from the waterfall was developed in the middle of the 20th century this was done

On account of tourism in order to continue attracting thousands of people to the waterfall every day it was necessary to maintain the same water pressure therefore it was decided to conduct a main water intake at night and during the low tourist season however there were times in the history of the

Waterfall when it could have lost its tourists altogether just because it stopped in the mid 19th century this stopped lasted 30 hours a strong storm broke the ice on Lake Erie and one of the ice floes blocked the course of the Niagara River this natural dam shifted

Only when the wind changed direction 121 years later the waterfall dried up again but this time it was a planned operation unprecedented measures to stop the waterfall were taken in order to preserve it and reduce rock erosion a temporary stone earth dam was built the best specialists were sent to study the

Riverbed and repair any damaged deteriorating pieces were fixed together with bolts all of their forces were thrown into the fight against erosion when the work was finished the artificial dam was blown up and the waterfall resumed its torrents stopping the waterfall revealed not only piles of stones and many coins bodies were also

Found under the waterfall surprisingly there were only two of them there should have been a whole cemetery about 40 people died here every year but it seems that the bodies of others are simply carried away from the waterfall by the Rapid River in general jumping into the waterfall was once considered almost a

Folk sport since the 19th century it has attracted Daredevils from all over the world first people tried sending a boat with animals on board down the waterfall these pioneers were a bear a bison two foxes and two geese but only one goose survived people weren’t deterred by such

A bleak result it’s believed that the tradition of jumping from the waterfall was established by a certain Sam patch he jumped from a high tower into the gorge below the waterfall and survived then the crazy race to conquer the stormy elements began people tried swimming under the waterfall going over

It in barrels and even huge rubber balls as you can imagine few managed to survive other Daredevils chose a way of conquering the waterfall by air they walked on a tight wire or rope from one side of the gorge to the other it was only in the year 2012 that a brave man

Dared to pass over the waterfall from one country to another his feat is now considered the longest tightrope walk in his the coasts of the Niagara River also has its secrets here just 12 kilometers almost seven and a half miles upstream from Niagara Falls more than 20,000 artifacts have been found the earliest

Ones are at least 4,000 years old these finds open a window into the distant times when people lived a nomadic life and engaged in hunting fishing and collecting plants this is revealed by the tools found here stones were used to make arrowheads and spears as well as drills later artifacts were also found

Near Niagara Falls they include bullets that seemed to date back to the 1930s or 40s more secrets of Niagara Falls will be revealed in future stops at the waterfall centuries old rocks contain many more fossils and how many interesting things might be hidden at the bottom of the lake in 50 years

Progress will have taken a step forward you’ll definitely be able to discover and studied more artifacts the waterfall is planned to be stopped once again to replace the century-old pedestrian bridges this operation was supposed to begin in the year 2019 but due to funding it was postponed indefinitely

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