| Karuna Shankar from Rampur, UP claimed that his piece of land sinks down by 2 inches in the winter season and rises to the original level in the summers. National Survey of India were unable to find the cause of the problem so they invited National Geographic to investigate. Nat Geo surveyors Mark Davidson and the renowned Geologist Natalie Grehnovich spent 2 weeks in summer and 2 weeks in winter with their state of the art equipment studying and researching but could not come up with a plausible explanation of the claimed phenomenon. With the help of an interpreter they quizzed Karuna Shankar. "How did you first notice that the earth rises 2 inches in the summer and sinks 2 inches in the winter." Karuna Shankar replied, "When I sit down to pee in the winters, the earth is 2 inches below and not touching my balls but, in summers when I sit down to pee, my balls scrape the ground!!!" |