If you watch any of the wacky alternative history and alternative science TV networks,

you've no doubt seen some pretty off the wall programming.

None has missed the mark wider than the show's about Nan Madal, a megalithic site in the

South Pacific.

Some say it was built by the people who lived there, yet others insist aliens are the

only reasonable explanation for its existence.

The truth about Nan Madal is coming up next, UnSkeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The Non-Mistery of Nan Madal.

On the shore of an idyllic island in Micronesia lies one of the great ancient megalithic structures

in Oceania, one that surprisingly few people have heard of.

Great quantities of huge rocks were brought from far away and used to construct artificial

islands over a flat reef, some 1.5 kilometers long and 0.5 kilometers wide.

Called Nan Madal, it is, unfortunately, best known for a difference of opinion concerning

its origin.

While archaeologists and historians credit the people who lived there at the time, and

who left it littered with evidence of their construction, habitation, and use, a subculture

insists that it is proof of ancient alien visitation, as if only extraterrestrials had

the ability to move and stack rocks.

Temwen is a small 3-square-kilometer island adjoining the much larger island of Poon

Pay, formerly known to the English-speaking world as Ascension, a rocky volcanic island with

greenery covered mountains reaching almost 800 meters high.

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