22 Things That Are Only Known to Exist Because They Were Caught on Camera

Pluto was just a rumor. Until it wasn’t
22 Things That Are Only Known to Exist Because They Were Caught on Camera

It turns out scientific theories and meeting Bill Murray have one thing in common: Without a photo, no one will ever believe you. No matter how much perfect sense or evidence there is for certain beliefs, they can’t fully claw their way out of the realm of “maybe” without concrete evidence. You’ll have to hope a game camera or a space telescope gets lucky enough to catch a glimpse of what you’ve been claiming in order to facilitate your “I told you so” revenge tour.

Black holes, colossal squids and weird stories about a president being attacked by a rabbit were all taken with a grain of salt until they showed up on film. Below, Redditors share some of the very best things proven with a photo or footage, which I have to assume some scientist walked into the lab waving pettily the day after.

BristolShambler 1y ago There are a large number of archeological sites that were only discovered once aerial photography became a thing - 11K Award Share ... WilhelmSkreem 1y ago Can confirm, here in ireland we found the remains of literally hundreds of ring forts that were just considered part of the natural landscape until they were photographed from above in the 20th century - 5.1K Award Share ...
ScienceNeverLies 1y ago Deep sea life 6.9K Award Share ...
King_Baboon 1y ago The moving stones in Death Valley. It was considered paranormal until it was recorded and the reason solved the mystery. Basically rain, cold below freezing temperatures turn the shallow ponds into ice. The high winds shift the sheets of ice pushing the rocks across the desert floor. Funny how something that seemed so mysterious ended up having a logical reason. - 330 Award Share ...
The-goobie 1y ago Sprites. Vertical firing, red tinted and cold 'lighting'. They were theoretical until one was captured on camera in 1989. 5.9K Award Share ... + juzz85 OP 1y ago Pretend-Word-8640 1y ago Please explain like I'm 5 771 Award Share ... TacticalFailure1 1y ago Edited 1y ago Above thunder clouds there are sometimes near instantaneous flashes of light that occur because they the air gets excited (energized) from the discharge of electricity in a thunderstorm. They take many different shapes such as carrots and jelly fish and are typically red in color. - 1.9K Award Share ...
sunflowerastronaut 1y ago Edited 1y ago The fact that when a horse gallops all four legs are off the ground at one point. Horses move so fast no one knew for sure until they could snap a picture during a horse race Edit: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-19th-century- photographer-first-gif-galloping-horse-180970990/ - 9.5K Award Share ... BristolShambler 1y ago They presumed it was the case, but artists usually got the gait completely wrong. showing front and back legs extended Muybridge's photos showed the opposite is true, and all 4 feet are off the ground when the hind legs are reaching forward - 3.3K Award Share ...
squonkparty 1y ago Giant Sequoias. Early explorers would come across them in the very few groves where they exist high in isolated mountains and excitedly try to describe them to others once they were back in civilization. Nobody believed them. This was the height of all kinds of exploitative bullshit like snake oil and traveling sideshows with mummified mermaids and it's not like you could just cut a chunk the size of a house off of this absolute unit of a tree and carry it down the mountain. Photography is what got people to believe. 5.6K Award Share ...
 1y ago The fact that a crack will travel across a pane of glass faster than a bullet through the air 491 Award Share ...
PaleHorseBlackDog 1y ago A handful of unknown or previously thought to be extinct animals caught on game cameras deep in the wilderness. Odd and interesting animal behavior and relationships like coyotes and badgers' friendship or the keeping of pet frogs by giant burrowing tarantulas to keep their burrows and eggs/slings free of tiny insects. - 2.2K Award Share ...
ieatpickleswithmilk 1y ago Edited 1y ago The big voids in the great pyramid were discovered in the last 10 years with a technique called muon imaging. Basically they track how much cosmic rays get blocked when going through different parts of the pyramid. One of the smaller passageways found using this method was a hallway above of the main entrance to the pyramid. They ended up sticking a small camera inside to image it, it hasn't been seen directly by people in over 4500 years.
Martneb 1y ago Edited 1y ago Rogue Waves: https://youtu.be/tktJss1x0eA?feature=shared For the longest time talk of 'water walls' was seen as seamen's yarn with even the scientific community deeming it as impossible for such huge coherent waves to form without breaking apart. And most terrifying: We only have recordings from large steel ships who can tank such waves, any ship before those simply disappeard without any trace. - 4.4K Award Share ...
dentrolusan 1y ago The entire inner part of Papua was considered uninhabitable for centuries... until airplanes flew over it in the thirties and found there were hundreds of different tribes living in those mountain ranges. 315 Award Share ...
raisinghellwithtrees 1y ago Mountain lions in Illinois, supposedly extinct since the late 1800's though reportings of sightings in rural areas were common but not believed until trail cams became a thing. Ball lightning. | read about ten years ago that it was finally caught on tape in an unrelated lab experiment. | read this is in a credible source but | can no longer find mention of this article on the Internet. I experienced ball lighting myself and read a lot about it back then to figure out wth I experienced. - 1.2K Award Share ...
saltyrandomman648 1y ago Giant Squid only caught on camera the first time in 2006.. THEN to the horror of everyone they found an even BIGGER one the Colossal squid one year later in 2007 - 525 Award Share ...
Tryingagain1979 1y ago The photos that go with the common gunfighter legends. Posed photos, but still. They didnt have the capability to take in-action photos, but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Earps, Billy the kid, Wild Bill Hicock. There is like 1 to a small handful of photos of each of them and if they didnt have the photos people wouldn't have believed they existed. Even now. They are kind of the first round of famous legends who had real photos taken of them. 2K Award Share ...
Hater_Magnet 1y ago Particles behaving like waves(double slit experiment) 417 Award Share ...
KennethEWolf 1y ago Hubble's red shift photos which proved that the universe was expanding. Until then it was believed that universe was static. Einstein even changed one of his equations because he to, at that time, thought that the universe was constant. Award Share 72 ...
Dshark 1y ago I'm gonna go with that tiny explosion that mantis shrimp make. 62 Award Share ...
selangorman 1y ago Pluto. It was just a rumour until it wasn't. Sad that it was demoted from being a planet. - 1.5K Award Share ...
sunflowerastronaut 1y ago Edited 1y ago Black Holes Scientists theorized black holes existed but we didn't know for sure until we snapped a picture of one in 2019 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/04/harvard-scientists-shed-light-on- importance-of-black-hole-image/ Einstein himself wasn't really sure that black holes existed, he said. The fact is we're drawn to things that we don't understand, because we yearn to know more. They're terrifying, but we can't look away. And the reason they're terrifying, the reason this is an important image, is because when you look into the middle of it, you realize that we've theorized about these monsters being out there, and now
KentuckyFriedEel 1y ago Bruce Lee's one and only filmed sparring session - 436 Award Share ...
DiamondNo4475 1y ago Pyramids on every continent-aerial photography wins again. 31 Award Share ...
tastybabysoup 1y ago Recently, a scientist was scrolling through some Hubble telescope images and saw a picture of this weird, white streak going across space. One in a million chance that someone would notice this and even less of a chance they wouldn't dismiss it as lens flare or something. As they dug deeper, they found it wasn't a mistake and, in fact, they had just discovered the first of its kind supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, speeding through space and leaving a 200,000-light-year-long trail of newborn stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way

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