Did you know that only a century ago the entire world was one single nation of technologically

advanced giants called Tartaria, and that that whole civilization was wiped out by a

massive mud flow that blanketed everything?

You didn't?

You mean that's news to you?

Then come and pull up a chair and learn how a random YouTube community can give birth

to an entire alternative history, repeat with its attendant cover-up conspiracy theory

that can actually come to be wholeheartedly believed by some people.

Tartaria and the mud flood is up next on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

A new alternative world history claim has arisen from the internet, and it's a doozy.

It revolves around an alleged worldwide cataclysm believed by adherents to have taken place

sometime in the 1800s, a disaster that wiped out a worldwide, advanced civilization, and

allowed the nations as we know them today to rise up.

The event was a mud flood in which several meters of mud washed in and buried the ground

levels of houses and buildings everywhere.

Those cities and towns that were partially buried constituted the worldwide, advanced

civilization called Tartaria, which had free wireless energy and was populated, at least

in part, by giants.

It was a civilization reset, out with the old, in with the new, and that new civilization

is us.

If this sounds too silly to be worth anyone's time to even listen to, then consider the

...