Nobody who studies history believes that Atlantis was anything other than what Plato said it was,

a fictional nation used to make a point in one of his philosophical dialogues.

But many people can't accept that, and insist that if it's mentioned in literature, it can only be an actual physical place.

And so they hunt for it, to this day.

Where are they looking and what signs are they searching for?

We're going to find out right now on Skeptoid.

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You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. How to Find Atlantis.

Welcome to the show that separates facts from fiction, science from pseudoscience,

real history from fake history, and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not. Today, we are going to learn how to find Atlantis. Even if you're aware that the idea of Atlantis was never intended

as anything more than a philosophical thought experiment, not everyone is so well read. The majority

of Americans, some 57%, according to a recent poll, believe that Atlantis was a real prehistoric

civilization. With most people

thinking it was real, it should come as no surprise that quite a lot of people are reasonably

serious about finding out where it was. And so today, I present 10 of the top possibilities.

You'll find plenty of other claimed locations of Atlantis besides what I list here.

My list is a bit different in that I tried to limit it to places where you can actually go and see the claimed evidence for yourself.

In his works, Temaeus and Critias, Plato had his character Socrates, based on his real-life mentor, Socrates,

challenged the other characters to imagine a perfect, ideal society, for which he used an idealized

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