Hello and welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Joe McCormick.

Rob and I are out this week, so we are going to be continuing our vault series, which began last Saturday, on The Sunkin Lands.

So today's episode is going to be part two of that series. This

originally published November 30th, 2023. Enjoy. Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart

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Hey, welcome to stuff to blow your mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with part two in our series called The Sunkin Lands,

about places where what was relatively recently, dry land has now vanished beneath the waters.

Now, in the last episode, we talked about the history of fascination with the idea of lands and especially human civilizations, occupied lands, that were swallowed by the sea.

The most famous of these stories, of course, being Atlantis,

a probably originally fictional island civilization described by Plato in some of his dialogues that was, according to the story, punished for its hubris by being drowned in the ocean.

And even though most experts on the original sources think this story probably

did not refer to a place existing in reality, there are still people all the time who

love to hunt for remains of Atlantis and similar drowned empires, or to interpret any strange

underwater imagery or other phenomena or artifacts as evidence of such.

Here's a weird looking artifact from under the water. Maybe it's from Atlantis.

Yeah. And it's, in many cases, it's harmless. But, you know, as we've been discussing,

these kind of ideas can bleed into pseudoscience, pseudo-archiology, and pseudo-geology.

And some of these areas are perhaps harmless as well, but they can become increasingly less harmless,

depending on what form they end up taking within a given culture.

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