Hello already welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown as always I'm your host

Simon a welcome welcome written today by Katie the mystery of the Tunguska event exploring the

1908 explosion in Siberia I didn't realize I mean I know there was a bit of historical mystery around this but didn't they work it out

is that a comet or an asteroid became towards the earth and then boom blew up a little bit of

hoarding and knocked down a bunch of trees but But there was no crater and stuff,

but I think that's because they figured it out eventually.

It just exploded above the trees.

I think, I'm not entirely sure.

I've almost certainly made a video on this before,

and everyone's gonna be like,

Simon, don't you remember making this video.

I'm gonna be like, no, it's like four years ago.

I don't remember what I had for lunch yesterday, Jesus.

Anyway, the format of the show I've never read it before.

Katie's written it for me.

My job is just to read it.

That's all I do.

It's the best job in the world let's go.

There's nothing like a giant explosion to set imaginations alight, especially if there are few witnesses, no investigation

for over a decade and not much in the way of physical evidence to work out what happened.

Today we're investigating the 1908 Tunguska event, a huge explosion that affected the planet from the Siberian

wastelands to the English coast. Oh my God, wait that's really far.

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