Conrad Bauer - Tunguska: An Apocalyptic Event Beyond Belief

Tunguska

An Apocalyptic Event Beyond Belief

Conrad Bauer

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There was a huge explosion on the 30 th June, 1908. Flattening 2,000 square kilometers of Siberian forest, the exact cause of the incredible blast is still unknown. Some have suggested that the event was caused by a meteor slamming into the Earths surface. But no impact crater has ever been found. Other people have suggested that the meteor imploded in the sky above the forest. To this day, it is still the largest recorded impact event to strike the Earth. To this day, the explosion is still something of a mystery.

Thousands of scientific papers have attempted to get to the bottom of exactly what happened that day. With a force comparable to a nuclear blast, the destructive nature of the event is astounding. On the day, 80 million trees were knocked down, and the sound was heard across the continent. In the days afterwards, the night skies were lit up with odd lights. It was just the start of the strange series of events that would add a paranormal, perhaps even extraterrestrial dimension to the cataclysmic event.

Explosions such as these have the power to end all life on the planet. Theres little that can be done when giant meteors rain down from above. The Tunguska Event not only demonstrates just how powerful such events can be, but also shows us what might happen if we survive. Aside from the existential threat, the fallout from the blast has left a lasting impact not just on mainstream science, but on those who dig below the surface. In this book, we will examine the explosion itself and the aftereffects that have defied explanation. Trying to figure out what caused the Tunguska Event is one thing; trying to figure out how this explosion affected us as a planet is another matter entirely.

The time was 7:14 in the morning on the 30 th of June, 1908. This part of Central Siberia was deserted and free from almost all human life. Not many people wandered this far out into the wilderness, and it was a good thing they didnt. Right beside the bogs and swamps that lined the Stony Tunguska River, the world was about to change. While there might not have been a single person for miles around, the forests themselves were full of noise. Reindeer shuffled and strode through the woods, while birds sang and chirped in the treetops. The sun was out, a rare window of light for the dense Siberian territory. When the summer hit along the riverside, the mosquitos grew to ridiculous sizes. Hunting in swarms, they were dubbed flying alligators by those who would sometimes find themselves in this desolated part of the world.

The scene was almost idyllic. A perfect snapshot of the summer in Eastern Russia. And then it was gone. The sky was on fire, a blinding flash of the brightest light imaginable. A tower of fire swept through the heavens, measuring as high as an office block, hurtling towards Earth. Travelling roughly from the southeast to the northwest, the fire was bright enough as to leave a thick, burning trail in its wake, a shard of light nearly 500 miles long. It crashed through the sky at an incredible speed. Moving from the edge of human perception, it took just a few minutes for the giant, burning object to reach the ground.

But even before it hit, the world was drowned in an apocalyptic explosion. Lasting just over a second, the bang was bigger than a thousand atomic bombs. In some forty years time, the Americans would drop an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. This explosion was 1,000 times the size.

Almost instantly, over 2,000 square kilometers of the forest were flattened. The area along the banks of the Tunguska River would never be the same again. The animals were killed instantly, the birds caught with a song in their throats. The trees lay stripped and bare on the ground, seeming as though they had been felled and prepared as telegraph poles. Taking a wider view, the massive number of destroyed trees might look like someone had dropped a thousand boxes of matches all at once. Just as the silence started to return to the world, a thick mushroom of dirt and dust swelled up into the sky. It could be seen from incredible distances, the tower of smoke reaching almost eighty kilometers high. As quickly as all of the dirt, earth, and dust had been swept up, it began to rain down on the Earth once again. The crunching rainfall of the debris was the only sound to be heard in this stretch of Siberia.

This huge explosion took its name from the River at the epicenter of the destruction. The Tunguska Event, as it became known, is the single largest explosion in recorded human history. It beggars belief when attempting to comprehend the sheer scale of the damage and the strength of the blast. The event has become an obsession for some, who have tried desperately to explain how something just this destructive could ever happen and whether, importantly, it could ever happen again. For years, scientists have provided competing explanations for what happened that day. None have been able to comprehensively describe the exact events.