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🗓️ 27 February 2024
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Scary Interesting and to another collection of horrible fates. |
0:06.2 | In this video we're going over two more creepy cases that went unsolved for decades. |
0:11.3 | In fact, the second one is still unsolved and is considered one of the most confusing |
0:15.5 | and controversial cases in history. |
0:18.5 | As always, viewer discretion is advised. |
0:21.6 | In the late 17th century, copper mining was big business in Sweden and it produced more iron |
0:35.5 | and copper than anywhere else in Europe. |
0:38.2 | This is because the Swedish government was pumping vast resources into turning old, peasant |
0:42.5 | run operations into big enterprises run by the local nobility to fund Sweden's involvement |
0:47.6 | in European wars and even a brief bit of colonial conquest. |
0:51.8 | One reason Sweden was so rich in minerals is that 380 million years ago |
0:55.5 | a giant meteor slammed into the earth there. The crater is now known as the Siljan |
1:00.2 | ring and the meteor left traces of lead, zinc and copper that people have been extracting |
1:04.2 | for over 6,000 years. One of the places for copper was an era called Fulun and there had been |
1:09.5 | a mine there ever since the 8th century. |
1:12.2 | The people of Phelun tell the story of a time in the 800s when locals spotted a white goat |
1:16.6 | with red fur. |
1:18.2 | They thought that the only way a goat could look like that was if it had been eating something |
1:21.8 | that changed its color, like copper, so they started to search for the source. |
1:25.9 | At first they fish lumps of copper ore out of the surrounding bog, |
1:28.3 | but it didn't take long for them to transition to digging it from the hillsides. |
1:32.3 | At first they used hand tools to get it, locating an ore vein and falling in as far as possible, |
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