Blood Falls of Taylor Glacier, Antarctica

There is a waterfall in the Taylor Glacier located in the McMurdo Dry Valley of Antarctica, in which the color of the flowing water is red like blood. It seems that blood is flowing from the waterfall. For this reason the name of this waterfall has now become Blood Falls. The Taylor Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about 54 kilometres long. Taylor Glacier was discovered by American geologist Griffith Taylor in 1911.  For this reason, the name of this glacier was named Taylor Glacier on the name of Griffith Taylor.

According to the scientists, the snow settles above the lake flowing beneath the glacier, causing the lake to become a glacier and due to the crack in the glacier, the water slowly starts to flow out of it. One of their estimates is that under the ice, there is probably some iron contents. For this reason, the iron oxide in the water comes into contact with air and the color of the water becomes red and look like blood flowing through the waterfall. The color of Blood Falls isn’t the only weird thing about it, however it’s what lives inside the subglacial lake that interests scientists more than the waterfall’s creepy color. There are many types of micro-organisms in this water that are living in this water for about millions of years and those micro organisms have not gone anywhere. They are still in the water. Its water is more saline than the water of the sea. That's why water never freeze here. The height of this waterfall is equal to 5-storey building. Taylor Glacier is "cold-based" meaning its bottom is frozen to the ground below. The rest of the world’s glaciers are "wet-based". It is very surprising thing for the people to see the blood waterfall in this beauty of nature. Anyone who sees this waterfall for the first time, is get shocked. Many horror stories related to this waterfall are also popular among people, due to which many people do not go to see it. Many people believe that there is a spirit on that waterfall that kills people who go there, due to which this waterfall changed into blood fall. However this red water is still a mystery.