Something weird in the Arctic...

The ancient Greeks called it Hyperborea, a land beyond the north wind where the sun shone 24 hours a day. But this wasn't just mythology. Cartographers mapped it, explorers wrote about it, and then it disappeared. Pull up any marine traffic tracking website. These sites use satellites to show real-time ship movement across the entire Earth. Also look at the Bering Strait. Ships approach it constantly, but don't actually go through.

A lot of manuscripts surfaced during this mysterious 15th century, when so much of our accepted history was supposedly rediscovered. Gerardus Mercator created his famous Arctic map in 1595. In a letter to legendary John Dee in 1577, Mercator stated that he copied everything from an author named Jacobus Canoian from Herzogenbusch, Netherlands. Which nobody knows who he is. Also Martin Boeheim's 1492 globe shows northern continents. Maps from 1565, multiple from Ortelius in the 1570s and 1580s, and Urbano Monte's elaborate 1587 world map all showed extensive Arctic geography. They showed mountains, coastlines, and specific features. Then something happened and later versions of these maps show that the islands disappeared.

Something weird in the Arctic...

The ancient Greeks called it Hyperborea, a land beyond the north wind where the sun shone 24 hours a day. But this wasn't just mythology. Cartographers mapped it, explorers wrote about it, and then it disappeared. Let me show you something strange. Pull up any marine traffic tracking website. These sites use satellites to show real-time ship movement across the entire Earth. Also look at the Bering Strait. Ships approach it constantly, but don't actually go through.

A lot of manuscripts surfaced during this mysterious 15th century, when so much of our accepted history was supposedly rediscovered. Gerardus Mercator created his famous Arctic map in 1595. In a letter to legendary John Dee in 1577, Mercator stated that he copied everything from an author named Jacobus Canoian from Herzogenbusch, Netherlands. Which nobody knows who he is. Also Martin Boeheim's 1492 globe shows northern continents. Maps from 1565, multiple from Ortelius in the 1570s and 1580s, and Urbano Monte's elaborate 1587 world map all showed extensive Arctic geography. They showed mountains, coastlines, and specific features. Then something happened and later versions of these maps show that the islands disappeared.