38. Historical Mysteries| The Tunguska Event

Published: Feb. 12, 2019, 8 a.m.

On 30 June 1908, an explosion ripped through the air above a remote forest in Siberia, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river. The fireball depleted 2,000 sq km of the taiga forest, flattening about 80 million trees and no one can say for certain what it was.