Temples are supposed to be sacred holy places but it doesn't mean that they always are on today's list we'll be looking at some weird spooky and downright uncomfortable things found inside ancient temples from human teeth to mermaid bones let's talk about this and more only in today's video the top 10 weirdest things found inside ancient temples hey everyone what's up and welcome back to the most amazing top 10. i'm your host lindsay ivan and i'm olivia kozalovsky and uh when you smash that like button and obviously subscribe to our channel and now let's get on with the video starting off in our number 10 spot we have liquid mercury this discovery came not necessarily from within a temple but rather under it but i still think it counts because they really are all connected in 2003 after 1 800 years a researcher named sergio gomez unsealed and began excavating a tunnel which laid beneath a mexican pyramid in 2014 the team searching this tunnel announced that they had found three chambers at the end of the 300-foot tunnel which lays 60 feet below the pyramid of the feathered serpent which is the temple i previously mentioned so this under temple tunnel is already cool enough but what makes this discovery even more fascinating is how they also found large quantities of liquid mercury in one of the chambers at the end of this tunnel this first meant that the team of researchers needed to wear some extra protective gear because mercury can be poisonous but also this meant to them that they may be very close to discovering the very first royal tomb ever located in teotehuaken after ANCIENT CREATURES decades of searching the mercury may symbolize an underworld river or lake not that different from the river styx i honestly don't know what could be cooler than a huge secret tunnel found under an ancient temple that leads to a pool of poisonous liquid metal in our ninth spot we have the tigers the waffle long tabwa temple in thailand is also called the tiger temple why well it's home to tigers in fact the monks there actually lived with them and visitors were allowed to feed them and pet them but sadly in 2016 officials were getting reports about tourists being attacked by the tigers while being there later it was found the tigers were being drugged and that's why sometimes they wouldn't attack but when they wore off meow you know bad kitties later on a raid found 137 tigers and 40 dead cubs which is very sad and heartbreaking the sanctuary was later forced to close and the healthy tigers were relocated in our number eight spot today we have too many wooden coffins in egypt archaeologists uncovered a funerary temple with some of the oldest coffins ever found in zakara this project led by egyptologist zahi hawas found the funerary temple of queen nirit who is the wife of king teti the first pharaoh of the sixth dynasty of egypt this mission ended up finding 52 burial shafts with more than 50 wooden coffins found inside that date back to around 3 000 years ago discoveries like this are of course incredible but i'm not gonna CREEPIEST URBAN LEGEND lie there's also something extremely eerie about all of these people who have been gone for thousands of years now being dug up and moved TOP BONE CHILLING around along with the coffins there were plenty of artifacts and small statues found mostly relating to different deities of the time the coffins themselves also usually have representations of the deities on them as well as various excerpts from the book of the dead so as to help the lost souls pass through on their journey to the other world in our seventh spot we have the lost civilization this one guy literally found an entire lost civilization while excavating a temple so in 2003 archaeologist sergio gomez was working on the temple of the plumed serpent he arrived to work one day to find a massive sinkhole at the foot of the pyramid the night before a heavy rainstorm hit the area but after looking in the hole he was like dude there's something down there so he attached himself to a rope and lowered himself down into the hole and he was right BEAUTIFUL NATURAL PHENOMENA something was down there after further investigation he found the lost civilization of teotihuacan imagine that it just makes me think what other lost cities are there below us that we haven't even found yet it's incredible in our number six spot today we have ancient gold while renovating a temple in the southern indian state of tamil nadu a group of villagers who had taken the renovations upon themselves were shocked to find a bunch of ancient gold this gold was hidden under the stairs that led to the temple's underground sanctorium there were a bunch of different gold items such as a gold chain and they all weighed around an estimated 565 grams the people who found this gold thought that it was a promising sign and they wanted to keep the gold in the temple after the renovations were completed india's treasure trove act states that the finder of treasure must report the value date time and location to the district collector so that is of course what these people had to do in doing so authorities came to seize the found gold to the dismay of those who had found it unfortunately after attempts to negotiate the gold did end up being seized we're now at our fifth and halfway mark with the curse turns out that a number of temples are haunted and cursed i could do a whole top 10 list on that topic alone if we haven't already but today let's talk about one of the most cursed temples in the world that is the padma swani temple and we're talking about walby that's located in there this is a hindu temple located in india it was built in the 16th century and contains six vaults five of which have already been opened and it contained up to one trillion dollars worth of treasures but no one wants to open the last vault referred to as vault b why well legend goes that it's cursed locals tell of a story of a man that tried to enter this vault but failed after a cobra came out of nowhere and killed him while another legend says that the vault is connected to the arabian sea if they open it it will flood the entire state not only that but a man named tp sindarijn an indian lawyer made a petition to get vault be open however in 2011 he unexpectedly and mysteriously passed away people think that he was the victim of the temple's curse but what do you think in our number four spot today we have human teeth in 2014 some people were restoring a wooden statue of jesus called the lord of patience that was located in the parish of san batalo quatlapan mexico the statue depicted jesus as he was awaiting crucifixion and it had been located within the church for 300 years during these restorations however it was discovered that this statue more particularly the mouth of this statue contained real human teeth old statues in this region of mexico are usually found with things like rabbit teeth or dog teeth and a statue of the devil and sometimes with real human hair but there's just something about the teeth that really freak me out and also how did no one else know for 300 years we don't know exactly where the teeth came from but it is likely that they were taken from someone living or dead who wanted to donate them for this exact reason or maybe they were taken from someone who didn't want to donate them that is also unfortunately a possibility coming in at number three we have the played lord temple in 2019 archaeologists were exploring a temple in mexico when they came across something quite dark and strange the temple was used by aztecs and they would engage in sacrifices for the gods in particular they would skin themselves so when the archaeologists excavated the temple they came across three statues each with skin skulls and a torso wearing someone else's skin as well as they found garbage holes where the victim's skin was discarded after they were done with it there goes my appetite in our number two spot today we have a human skeleton inside a statue have you ever heard of the practice of self-mummification well it exists and it is most often practiced by monks this is what led to a real skeleton being found inside of a buddha statue located in a temple in the 1990s the process of self-mummification isn't an easy task it starts off at least three years before death with the first step being to eat a diet that consists only of nuts roots berries and bark somewhere around a thousand to three thousand days later they will stop eating and only drink water that has been mixed with salt and basically just meditate until they have passed they are buried while just on the brink of death and then will have their remains exhumed later in order to see if the mummification process was a success that is the process that the monk found inside of the statue took after his death his mummified remains were placed inside of the temple for two more centuries after his body began to deteriorate some monks decided it might be best to encase it in a statue and thus this weird discovery in the 1990s was born it's a little less weird when we understand why this all took place but definitely still weird nonetheless and in our number one spot today we have the mermaid bones yeah you heard me correctly mermaid bones so located at the ryuguji temple in japan on display is what they claim to be six bones belonging to a mermaid according to the history of the bones the mermaid was found on the shore of hakata bay in 1222 a shaman said that the creature was a mermaid and it washing up on shore was a sign of good luck eventually the bones were given to the temple which changed its name to ryugujo which means undersea palace of the dragon god in fact if you go there visitors can even bathe in the water that the bones were once soaked in this is said to keep them safe and prevent them from getting sick kind of interesting like i want to see these mermaid bones for myself also do you guys believe in mermaids let me know in the comments below alright guys that's all for today's video let us know in the comments below which one of these objects you found the creepiest honestly which one did you buy the creepiest the human teeth human teeth i was going to say that one too i didn't like it it's wrong it's just wrong that being said if you guys liked the video why don't you smash that like button obviously subscribe to our channel and comment down below because it really helps us out and we appreciate it we love you guys uh i've been your host lindsay ivan i'm olivia koslowski now see you when i see you bye all right uh teotihuacan god damn it i tried so hard this one's hard though t.o.t what can't i'm gonna have to look it up sorry one sec please hold plea oh i have a missed call from who somebody trying to tell me to hurry the t they're like hey please don't butcher this pronunciation the what temple in thailand is awesome all right i can't take myself seriously okay so 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