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It was April 13th, 1984, when the Indian Armed Forces launched a military campaign on one of the most unlikely battlefields on earth: a glacier towering 6,500 meters above sea level. Their mission was to take full control of the area, a remote and uninhabited stretch of the disputed territory known as the Karakoram range of the Himalayas that straddled the India/Pakistan border. The border in question was established in 1949 in the aftermath of Partition. It was conceived in the Karachi Agreement, which itself ended the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, an armed conflict between the two newly independent nations for territory in the shared and highly disputed Kashmir region.

How did the U.S. steal a sunken nuclear submarine? Right out from under the nose of the Soviet Union... Subscribe now: http://bit.ly/DarkDocs

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The Hughes Mining Barge, or HMB-1, is a submersible barge about 99 m (324 ft) long, 32 m (106 ft) wide, and more than 27 m (90 ft) tall. The HMB-1 was originally developed as part of Project Azorian (more widely, but erroneously, known as "Project Jennifer"), the top-secret effort mounted by the Central Intelligence Agency to salvage the remains of the Soviet submarine K-129 from the ocean floor.

The HMB-1 was designed to allow the device that would be used to grasp and lift the submarine to be constructed inside the barge and out of sight, and to be installed in the Glomar Explorer in secrecy. This was done by towing the HMB-1, with the capture device inside, to a location near Catalina Island (off the coast of California), and then submerging it onto stabilizing piers that had been installed on the seafloor. The Glomar Explorer was then maneuvered over the HMB-1, the retractable roof was opened, and the capture device lifted into the massive "moon pool" of the ship, all within clear sight of people on the beach

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DarkDocs is a new narrated documentary video from Dark5 taking an in-depth look at at some of the most mysterious stories on Earth. This week: Project Azorian, the Glomar Explorer, and the mysterious CIA to recover the lost Soviet submarine, K-129.

It’s March 1968. An unexplained event causes a Soviet Golf-II submarine known as the K-129 to sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean while enroute to its patrol station off the coast of Hawaii.

Publicly, no one in the world knew what happened, where the submarine was, or what secrets might be hidden on board. Behind the scenes, however, reporters caught wind of a classified US government operation to pry the wreckage from the floor with a giant claw and uncover whatever secret technology might be hidden within. The mission was codenamed Project Azorian, and it was launched from a covert ship named the Glomar Explorer.

Pressed for comment on the operation, a US government spokesman flatly replied, [quote] “We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the information requested but, hypothetically, if such data were to exist, the subject matter would be classified, and could not be disclosed…"

Inside the Soviet submarine, the crew could feel the impact of explosions shaking the walls. They waited for hours, enduring the intense pressure of U.S. depth charges, desperate to receive some kind of signal or call to action. Meanwhile, the air conditioning had malfunctioned, and the men aboard were overheated, exhausted, fevered with worry and anticipation. They knew it was their responsibility was to fire their nuclear-tipped torpedo in the event of an attack on Russia, and in the intense chaos they debated how to act. Had the crisis between John F. Kennedy, the U.S. President, and Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier, finally boiled over? How close had the world come to witnessing the atomic apocalypse feared by so many over the course of the crisis?

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They are among the roughly 900 strays who live in and around the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where descendants of the pets live after being left behind in the hasty evacuation.

A recent study found the canines had accumulations of radioisotopes, and visitors are warned not to touch the dogs as their fur likely contains radioactive particles that are dangerous to human health. Researchers explain that most of the meat and water the dogs ingest every day is itself radioactive, and these particles accumulate to potentially dangerous levels in their bodies over time.

In addition, nearly every object or surface they touch in their habitat is contaminated with radiation. And as these particles attach themselves to the fur, the cuddly strays into cuddly, free-roaming radioactive potential pets to unsuspecting families. Fearing the growing population has already begun venturing outside of the exclusion area to come into contact with humans, an effort has begun to spay or neuter and release the radioactive pups to control their population.

If one were to visit the remote Pacific island village of Lamakara today, one would likely encounter natives performing bizarre rituals in homemade U.S. military outfits with large American flags flying over bamboo huts. The unusual display worships American materialism and honors a mysterious and mythical messiah they call John Frum: a still unidentified American who is said to have first appeared on the island in the late 1930’s. A figure who many believe is more spirit than man, Frum is a hero to the island people of Tanna. Many claim to have seen or known him, island lore says that he still lives at the top of the smoldering volcano, which they call [quote] “John Frum’s House,” and many of the locals worship him to this day.

According to one village elder interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine, John Frum promised the island people that he would [quote] “bring planeloads and shiploads of cargo to us from America if we pray to him. Radios, TVs, trucks, boats, watches, iceboxes, medicine, Coca-Cola and many other wonderful things.” Yet, despite the assertion that the mysterious American is [quote] “even more powerful than Jesus,” there is scant evidence that John Frum is still alive today, let alone that he ever existed to begin with…

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It was the stuff of spy legends. Using stolen "ghost" identities, the suspects had managed to blend into the US, start families who had no idea of secret lives, and establish the appearance of being normal, law-abiding citizens...

The Somerton Man was found with no ID and a mysterious slip of paper that linked him to a book of secret codes. Who was he, what was he hiding, and will the mystery ever be solved? Subscribe now: http://bit.ly/DarkDocs

Just after dawn on December 1, 1948, a sunny summer morning, police were called to investigate reports of a man found on Somerton Beach in Southern Australia. The figure – who was fashionably dressed and clean shaven - was found in a relaxed position with his head resting against the seawall and his extended legs crossed, as if taking a nap.

Found with no identification, authorities have never been able to identify the man. The question of his real name, the mysterious circumstances of his discovery on the beach, and a link to a still unsolved secret code found in a hidden pocket have led the case to become one of Australia’s most profound mysteries. Just who was the Somerton Man and what was the meaning of the words “Tamam Shud” found on the scrap of paper he was hiding?

How close was Germany to developing an atomic bomb in World War 2? Learn the story of the secret commando raid to destroy Germany's Heavy Water facility. Subscribe now: bit.ly/DarkDocs

Just why was Germany so interested in the remote Vemork hydroelectric facility? Nestled in the southern mountains of Norway, and perched on a ledge overlooking a deep valley, the site harbored a dark secret. In the 1930’s and 40’s, it was the only plant commercially manufacturing heavy water, a key component in the production of nuclear weapons.

When Norway was invaded by Germany in 1940, concerns mounted that the Germans would seize the plant and its heavy water facilities and control most of the global supply. Tensions were high, as German scientists had already discovered nuclear fission two years earlier. Due to the extreme secrecy, no one knew how close the German weapons program was to successfully producing an atomic bomb, but the Allied Powers were not about to wait around to find out.

It was the loudest sound ever recorded underwater, and its audio profile seemed to match an animal call. What as the Bloop and could an unidentified creature have made it? Listen here along with 5 more of the most mysterious sounds ever recorded in the ocean. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/DarkDocs

The ocean, so dark and inhospitable to humans, is the great unexplored terrain of our planet. In its depths exists lifeforms that have yet to be discovered, and perhaps cannot even be imagined. So when, in 1997, a unidentifiable and unimaginably loud sound was detected in the remote South Pacific, people across the world started began speculating about its cause. Named after its unique sonic profile, there was something about the sound that suggested an animal origin. But could it really have been created by a leviathan of the deep? Or was it the rumble of an ice-shelf breaking apart? Maybe even an incident caused by man? Or something much stranger? Let’s take a dive into the midnight zone of mystery surrounding the enigmatic and alluring sound known as The Bloop.