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We've got a fascinating couple more hours for you with Justin McHenry, a historian with a passion

for discovering long-lost, strange, weird, and bizarre stories from the past, and breathing

new life into them.

He's the author of Lemuria, a true story of a fake place.

His work has been featured in newspapers, magazines, and various online publications such

as Faith magazine as well.

Justin, welcome to the program. Thank you so much, George. It's an honor and and welcome to the program thank you so much george

it's a honor and a pleasure to be here with you i love the subtitled of your book explain it to us a true

story of a fake place well um just so maybe if people don't know um lemoria is the the great lost continent

of the Pacific Ocean.

So it's kind of, you know, Atlantis' crazy Pacific cousin.

And I call it a fake place just because, you know, it has a very specific beginning.

It starts in like the 1860s with a British ornithologist who was talked,

who just was talking about how lemurs got onto Madagascar. And he theorized a land bridge

that connected Africa to Madagascar. And he proposed the name LaMoria for this place.

And then it kind of just took off from there.

And so while there may have been a lost continent in the Pacific Ocean,

you know, LaMoria itself started as a land bridge to Madagascar.

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