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What do flood myths around the world have in common?
Dozens of flood traditions across six continents share structural details so specific — a divine warning, a chosen survivor, a boat, animals, a mountain refuge, a bird sent to find land — that independent invention strains credulity. Randall Carlson, Graham Hancock, and the Comet Research Group argue these myths encode a real catastrophe: the Younger Dryas Impact event circa 10,800 BCE, which triggered megafloods of previously unimaginable scale. The convergence of geology, mythology, and archaeoastronomy now makes dismissal of a shared historical origin intellectually untenable.
Evidence
- Randall Carlson's geological analysis identifies the Channeled Scablands of Washington State as physical evidence of the Missoula Megafloods — catastrophic glacial outburst floods at exactly the Younger Dryas boundary.
- The Comet Research Group — led by James Kennett and Richard Firestone, with Martin Sweatman's archaeoastronomical work at Göbekli Tepe — published in 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' (2018) evidence that the Younger Dryas was triggered by a cosmic impact or airburst.
- Paul LaViolette, in 'Earth Under Fire,' adds a galactic superwave hypothesis — periodic cosmic radiation events triggering simultaneous global catastrophes preserved in stellar mythology.
- Hancock cross-references these with Robert Schoch's geological work on sea-level rise and erosion signatures.
- Carlson maps dozens of flood myths onto the specific geography and timing of these events.