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History isn't just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the

stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History

Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange and even counterfactual

stories that made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.

We live in a golden age of dragons and fiction. They were in Game of Thrones, they were in

the Hobbit movies, they'll most likely be in the Amazon series based on the works of

J.R. Tolkien set in the second age of Middle-earth. But Dragon Myths go back to millennia. They

can be found in ancient Greece, in India, in China, and there are so many different places

this is one of the main arguments by cryptozoologists, the dragons actually exist.

Well, I won't be making the argument that dragons exist in this episode. In fact, you

can go back to the archives and find an episode they did called Dragons Don't Exist. So,

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