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32 Historical Myths That Were Actually Real All Along
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- Published on Mar 16, 2026
- 32 Historical Myths That Were Actually Real All Along
They called them fairy tales. Legends. Exaggerations from drunk sailors and unreliable historians.
Amazons? Greek fantasy about warrior women. The city of Troy? Homer's poetic invention. A Greek computer from 2,000 years ago? Absolutely impossible.
Then archaeologists started digging. Scientists pointed X-rays at ancient artifacts. Underwater explorers found cities on the seafloor.
One by one, the "myths" turned out to be real.
In this video, we explore 32 legendary stories that mainstream historians dismissed for centuries, only to be proven shockingly, undeniably true. From the real Kraken to Viking settlements in America, from poison assassin women to floating Roman palaces, these are the legends that history got completely wrong.
Some will surprise you. Some will disturb you. All of them actually happened.
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Moka Dick was not a monster, but someone trying to protect their own from the real monsters
Captain Kidd, the pirate had descendants, one of whom became a US Navy admiral. There is a ship named for him. You'll know it instantly if you ever see it. It is the only ship in the Navy authorized to fly the Jolly Roger. Incidentally, Kidd was innocent. He had real Letters of Marque. Royal permission to attack, & loot ships of an enemy power; basically permission to pirate at the Royal's enemies. US Congress lately (late 2025) has been considering restarting the practice. Kidd produced the letters of marque upon his arrest, but they got "lost" till after his trial and hanging.
Thanks for that info! As someone with a great love of history, but a memory disorder that makes things hard, I love to run across little 'tidits' like this. Thanks again!!!
Years ago I met his descendant, Cyril Kidd.
Was Captain William Kidd the original Billy the Kidd?
Unless I'm mistaken, the issue with the letters of marque were that they authorized him to attack enemy ships, but he got arrested for attacking British ships as well as enemy ships.
Big foot is real, and so are feral humans, deep in wilderness.
When people talk about something for a long time, chances are that it existed (King Arthur).
Same thing with theism to atheism, people talk about it long enough that certain people forget that the big bang is a teaching model… and isn’t actually confirmed.
I live in the Ohio Valley, there are Viking, long ship burials here. Castle's, Armor, Helmets and rune stone's. My white side of Family came over in 1587, and 1632. My DNA Sami, Sweden Denmark Scotland Ireland Wales Norway Iceland Greenland Jewish Iberian Peninsula, you figure it out, our oral tradition is Scot/Irish, Black Dutch, Delaware Croaton Cherokee.... 🤔
Never doubt Roman engineering
How interesting did you do a DNA scan?
Modern 21st century technology. Computers penetrating the jungle in Central America. Fantastic to see the abandoned civilization.
On the gladiators, most that died only did so by accident. They did kill criminals in the arenas, but gladiators were slaves and expensive, and after seven years in the ring got freedom and if they were good a nice retirement, if they were average got nice jobs as bodyguards
Killing the Christians for following the Living God...free.😢
I see Gladiators more like Race Drivers or Boxers. Yes, Death is involved but it was not the main goal. Victory, Entertainment, Bravery was the goal. A unlucky good gladiator can fight and entertain again...
@thomasschwarz3711they usually did four bouts per year, and their slavery was for seven years. Afterwards they were employable as private bodyguards and trainers for other gladiators
Boxers are a good comparison
COLOSSAL SQUID are even LARGER THAN GIANT SQUID.
And Super Gargantuan Squid are even bigger.
I think the AI lost me at "Cosmic ray particles"
The INDIAN subcontinent continues to push Mt. Everest skyward as it pushes against the continent of Asia.
#5. Caligula knew how to waste valuable scarce resources.
Sounds like someone we know.
It makes me crazy that no one edits these so things like trepanation is typed as trepidation.
It's AI slop channel and video, that's why.
You did say 778 not 1778? The written narration was written wrong.
Bigfoot and Yeti.
Big foot because I've sen the foot prints measuring 15 inches from toe to heel and it sunk over 2 inches into the mud. I was terrified.
You keep showing pictures of Khafre's pyramid - not the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Damages your credibility.
I believe Sasquatch exists simply due to the fact that any living creature in the forest knows us dumb humans are coming long before stepping into the forest.
I saw one show that said that in Russia, scientists went into a cave where sasquatch were reportedly seen and found a nest and collected hair samples. DNA testing of the hair samples showed Neanderthal DNA, so I think it would be a very interesting twist if Sasquatch turned out to be a surviving group of Neanderthals.
Awesome video!👍😄👍🫶 Before 2:29, all of the hair, prehistoric, unicorn-type creatures had two horns. They were just modern rhinos that were given a hairy skin and supersized by AI. Did Egyptologists get to explore that hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid? Even though he was mad and borderline evil, the best thing Caligula was that he invented cruise ships. The feminist and me went wild at the idea of female gladiators. Who knew the Greek had an astronomical clock? The poison damsels sounds like Poison Ivy from DC comics. I always wondered about those serpents. I already knew about the prehistoric brain surgery. Even if the Nazca Lines weren't made BY aliens, I think they could still have been made FOR aliens. I'm estatic that the Amazons were real, just like a female gladiators, and even the Dahome Warriors of Africa. Was the Minoan society on Crete the real Atlantis? I already knew about the Vikings visiting America. I'm sorry to say that legendary treasure of Captain Kidd was a bit disappointing. Why hasn't anyone made a movie about the London Nacropolis Railway yet? I'm not surprised Mount Everest used to be underwater. I knew about the albino sperm whale vigilante attacking wailing ships, but why the name change? I think I heard about Sodom and Gomorrah on "The Naked Archeologist", but I really enjoyed your depiction of it. I already knew Troy was real. The guys at 21:20. I'll look like they could be brothers. I can't imagine not knowing about Gorillas, but it's understandable that people who haven't seen them before didn't believe in them.🦍 How did Hano get to Africa to draw one, and why did he give them wings; especially wings that look mechanical and don't match their bodies? And what's with the multiple tails? Monkeys have tails, but apes do not. Monkeys only have one tail. I'm still very surprised that it took until 1840 for Western scientist to finally discover them. The truth about El Dorado really surprised me. I always thought it was real. Today was the first time I ever heard of Thonis Heracleion. How did Herodotus know about the Cythian burial mounds? That was the same civilization where the real life Amazon came from, which were talked about in number 12 on the list. I just love it that the Egyptians were more accommodating and accepting several thousand years before the Europeans. I already knew about the giant squid. At 26:43, the old man on the right with the beard's eyes look weird. They kind of look milky red, like maybe he's blind and they've been punctured or damaged. I thought the "dragon bones" were just supposed to be dinosaur bones. He thinks that apothecaries would check for writing on the bones before grinding them up. Maybe this means that evidence of Camelot accidentally got covered up. Isn't the White City also called Shangri-La? How does a human/jaguar hybrid equate to a monkey God? Jaguars are big cats, while monkeys and humans are primates. It's no wonder that some actors are so good at what they do. Sometimes it pays to be related to a villain. I think I remember something about the Viet Kong tunnels, but not about whole subterranean cities. A little correction at 31:10. I think a death rate would make Archimedes seem like a super villain. I already knew about the Death Ray, and saw it on "MythBusters". It was pretty cool. I knew about the mass disappearance of the children of Hamlin in 1284. I have a feeling that you're right about the Piper added later as an explanation for the children's leaving the city. Why do all the men with white beards at 32:53 and 32:56 look exactly the same in their respective scenes? It happens at 32:53 with five men and at 32:56 with seven men. I think scientist in the future are more likely to find Bigfoot than a living megalodon mainly because land is a little bit easier to access the deep sea. I've got my hopes on a Bigfoot confirmation in the future. If not, maybe the Dogman?🤞🦧🤞🤞🐺🤞
WOW! I think that's one of my longest review ever.😲😲😲😲
The Pied Piper part is the creepiest-because it’s not magic… it’s a real missing case.
When Plato wrote about Atlantis He was retelling a story he heard as a youngster from his father, who heard it when in Egypt. btw 'beyond the Pillars of Hercules' is a later addition that phrase wasn't even known in Platos time, first used 400yrs after Platos birth by the Greek geographer Strabo around 10ce
Outside of the town of Nazca is a tower of no more than 2 stories high. Made to view the Nazca lines. No airplane needed.
Use gold or silver for dentistry. Ancient Roman dentists used copper and bronze false teeth and are painful.
I think it was Isaac Asimov who said that the universe was going to turn out to be far more fantastic than we thought. Here are some examples, and it's fun to consider that the ancients may have been a lot smarter than we are.
Fascinating info.
These people don't know what the kraken is!
They would if they watched Good Omens…
It's a hockey team.
The subtitles are gloriously inaccurate. The Antikythera Mechanism was subtitled as anti-Cuba.
Mistake from AI translation tool. This isn't the only one, there are so many. As a french mother tongue, I rely partly on them and many make no sense, probably hundreds...
It would be a lot more workable to ignite the sail, and veryeffective. I predict ancient global civilazation.
Dragons, are they real?
Bigfoot will be proven real. I know he's real cuz I'll steam one. I shot one when I was 12 years old. I'm 69 now
William Kid...... makes me thinks of Gol D. Roger
Question, has anyone verified any evidence of sand or even sandstone on Mount Everest, so if they didn’t come from plate tectonics? Global flood. Global flood myths tell of the sea people in Egypt… Egypt decided to fake them as invading forces rather than people running for their lives from a massive enough flood.
So, a rhinoceros is a unicorn.
There are other videos that show a dictionary from a couple hundred years ago that says that exactly.
i wish you used better oarfish image generations. they look nothing like the real ones
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I had to put down the phone and just listen, the visuals looked really weird and unnatural.
I heard somewhere over the decades, the warlock/wizards group back then in Arthurian times were called the Merlins?(Just very clever scientists/alchemists)
Does anyone know if that is true?
Merlin as we know him was actually the wisest of them
Maybe like the 33rd mason.
Sea serpents were also giant squids and whale erections. Google it but not at work 😂
Dwarka in india also submerged 5000 years ago. People thought it was a myth. Remains were found in the sea bed by archeologists few years ago
CAN I SHARE YOUR VIDEO ON MY CHANNEL. LOVE HISTORY
The background music is annoying!!!!!!
Was the jumbled numbering meant to be confusing?
@28:00 3-handed explorer, nice!
Probably all of them. We hopefully grow wiser with understanding & modern technology to put to rest truths or falsehoods.
look up the eye of the saharaha ....
It may not have been women gladiators. She may have just been a woman merchant that would go to the coliseum and sell things
It has been said that many of our nursery rhymes are based off true events. Should be a safe source of invalidated source of information. However the fountain of youth could have been a simple mineral spring that the indigent people knew about and minerals would be like our modern day vitamins. Mineral are good for plants and the human body.
Well the Mount Everest one wasn't that surprising as montains actually do come from the ocean.
Big foot and or alians for sure
Had heard the Unicorn was based on very early Greek descriptions of African Rhinos - the Horse shape being that of Large draught horses not thoroughbreds
Gees I would love to have an ancestor that was the pirate or European King I think the pied Piper how stole 121 children' to put into be proven right would be a great mystery to solve that is my thinking as no one has investigated the mystery of the children being missing . The lady from Adelaide SA 😈😈👍✌️🤟🔥💙💙💙💙💕🇭🇲
Why do modern humans persistent acting like we are the first of our species with brains?
Charlemagne was around in 774, not 1774. The Renaissance was the last of the 14th Century and the first part of the 17th Century,
The narrator actually said 774, just the subtitles got it wrong.
To tell you the truth, There are some things you said that were pure speculation of your own opinion. So that puts double over all the things you say. Either it is all a truth what you are saying, or no one can believe all of it if there are bits that are not true.
21:55 Historical proof Donkey Kong was real.... 🙄
Megalodon and Bigfoot are my bets especially the latter.
Kraken: "One of these things surfacing beside you: You'd invent legends, too!" And toilet paper... Tunnel warfare: Was rife by the Japanese on the Pacific Islands during WW2! Archimedes Death Ray: MythBusters used flat mirrors to reflect the sun. Archimedes probably used the concave side of polished bronze shields, which would concentrate the sunlight better. Just don't pray for rain....
Decent video other than the weird subtitles.
Also, imagine the audacity of an AI voice asking for "real" answers. 😅
How about following the books of Arthur Ashe (English Historian) about 'King Arthur' growth and developement and how the characters changed and evolved, or the fact that King Arthur was a contemporary of both Sigfrid/The Volsung Saga and Atilla The Hun?
El Dorado is in Kansas, east of Wichita
Myth usually comes from some truth even if it is small or big. Legend's the same way. I'm pretty sure the town that lost the children was due to a plague or they were taken to safety.
On the antikathra mechism Wicapedia gives gear count at 37.
No serious person thinks *game developers* "cooked up" the hashashin.
🌞 Wow!
15:10My 5th great grandma was a cousin to the owners of Gardiner's Island. Cynthia (Syntha) Gardiner
B:09 MAR 1771 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Colony
D:17 MAR 1849 Westerio, Albany, New York, USA
so mystery
13:24 atlntas is the eye of the Sahara
An AI voice asking for "real" answers.😂 That's a good one!
I read a history of piracy in the Caribbean. It asserted that thirty percent of pirates waging their aggressive attacks were from Newfoundland, Canada. In those days men had five options. Farming, fishing, mining or piracy. So many people desperate to be free. “Historical Fact”, the first modern democracy was practiced on pirate ships p. They held elections every year for “Captain” and “Pilot”. Everyone gat the exact same percentage except the pilots.and captains who each received ten percent more than everyone else.
Just imagine how advanced we could've been by now if we weren't so preoccupied with slaughtering each other
We are well developed that way, though.
Love the spelling errors it is actually: Elasmotherium sibiricum
they find a lot of lost civilisations
How the use of parchment led to The Dark & The Middle Ages and how the Renaissance was foreshadowed by The Tarot Deck, i.e., THE CHARIOT was in fact Plato's 'Phaedrus', 2 of Cups was(?) Aristotle's 'De Anima ", and THE HANGED MAN was Odin's self-sacrifice on Yggdrasil.
i am betting on atlantis
didn’t the egyptians use mirrors for light when they were building the pyramids?
Probably
I pity the deadly women. What if they ever fell in love? If a kiss or a touch could kill, many of them must have been unhappy, not to be able to experience love
Oarfish live at the bottom of the ocean. They stay down til nightfall, they only come up to feed and they don't come to the top.they come up from the depths but not all the way. Unless they are dying ( that is definitely a myth about them being monsters.
That “caveman “ was the populus and not just mutations of the real civilization
The Kraken is a Colossal Squid , not a Giant one.
They were clearly for someone in the air. Could they fly, probably not, then, who's left?
I thought everyone knew about the Hashashin.
The ancients were far more advanced and sophisticated than we give them credit for. Trepination, an analogue computer, the Baghdad battery. All examples of things we thought them incapable of but clearly they were capable of these things and more. I can't even begin to imagine things that we've forgotten and have yet to relearn.
Europe still has issues with land to bury bodies. My grandfather (Opa) in the Netherlands, buried his first wife (died in childbirth), the his second (cancer) right above her. Then he was interred above them both and finally his third wife (old age and broken heart) joined them. I was told, and I could be wrong, that people now may be buried for 7 years and are then disinterred, cremated and placed in vaults. They're running out of land for burials!
I’m going to say the parting of the Red Sea. Oh wait that was proven also. That would have been a good one to include in this video.
Megalodon
Unfortunately the women gladiers were the subsidiary of male gladiators unfortunately nobody came to see them and they lost money but they are battled to get paid the same as the male gladiators .. One of the greatest women Gladius was obviously Katlina Klarakos ... . She was deadly from a distance.. With a Spear
For me the main takeaway here is how unintelligent and arrogant Scientists have been over all these centuries, just outright disbelieving what centuries of honest folk had told their children.
And indeed the 'clarifications' are still marching on: matallurgical analysis of metal items in many finds have 'surprised' the researchers when they identified just how far away the actual metal had come from: sometimes over a thousand miles rather than a hundred or so, which was the 'trade-range' envisaged. Bones unearthed in settlements centuries earlier than 'scientists' had believed possible, in central america, for example.
There is still no 'consensus' explanation for the many portolan maps of antiquity [eg the Piri Reis] showing correct geographical details eg of West coast america, and even more shockingly, of parts of Antarctica thought to have been wholly covered by ice for over 10,000 years.
And the beautiful carving by Ancient Egyptians in Diorite [ an incredibly dense, resistant stone] that even modern carvers would be challenged by] is also glossed over.
Almost every society has ancient myths that depict actual Giants interacting with and as a threat to humans. I just wonder how long it will be before someone starts digging up a set of bones which are 'too big'?
Lovelock Cave, Nevada. Pretty interesting. Check it out.
There's a lot of 'maybes' 'perhapses' and 'could'ves' for "proven" myths xD
Ancient global civilization it's what i like to be true
Daniel 2:19-44 is a prophecy of a line of world powers that has been 100% accurate from Babylon through Rome, with the final one described asa divided kingdom(pres/congress) with an additional description of a disunited population. The USA is humans' final human world power that will be destroyed by god's kingdom, the finale of imperfect humans. Eden-gk!
bigfoot!
This channel sounds like PR, from the Smithsonian 🤔🤔🤔👍🏽
Dude no ads in your videos.why ?it is not monetized yet?
Here we go again...
Leif Erikson actually sailed up the Hudson River. He also explored wat further west, as they have found Viking burial mounds and homesteads in North Dakota, Minnesota and Michigan! The northern plains Indians, such as the Crow and Blackfoot tribes, intertwined the Nordic with their own, as well as remnants and artifacts to go with it. The Vikings traded and had interrelationships with the tribes.
The Vikings also sailed along the east coast of what is the U.S. today. My grandmother was from the Chicamagwa Cherokee tribe and used to tell stories about her ancestors and who they traded with and who they fought against. Viking artifacts have been found as far as west Tennessee (Mississippi River). So there’s that.
Megladon is my bet.
I believe all of them will be proven soon. They already have analyzed DNA from Bigfoot and they are another branch of humans that has different dna
Your dude pictured at minute 28:00, seems to be really talented, being able to hold onto a map / chart with two hands while wielding a sword with his other right hand. I didn't realize that Spain had hy-brid soldiers. Under some circumstances, could be really handy (pun not intended).
He looks a bit like Harrison Ford, don't you think? That must be an Indiana Jones trick he picked up ... LOL
Waxes eloquently about the Great Pyramid at Gizeh, but keeps showing pictures of the second pyramid of Khafre. You can tell the difference by Khafre's limestone "cap". The true Great Pyramid appears smaller only because it sits on lower ground than the pyramid of Khafre. The Great Pyramid has no such limestone "cap". It is completely barren, lacking in limestone facing stones. The fact that the producers of this claptrap didn't know that casts doubt on their entire credibility. Don't believe a word of this nonsense. The producers simply didn't know what they were talking about.
And don't forget the narwhal as a single horned animal
You may also want to update the Viking bit in light of the new discoveries that showed the Vikings continue traveling to North America to obtain wood four projects in Greenland.
Don't worry, I didn't forget.
Global civilization
Ancient Civilization
Herman Melville's book wasn't the first book written about a Whale. As far as I can tell, a book titled "The Whale" was written first, and Moby Dick was interestingly similar in story. Melville, like many famous people, was an intellectual theif.
The events of the Exeter being sunk by a whale was a fact known. The cannibalism practiced by the survivors was a fact also. Melville had a former cannibal as a good man in his story.
Typo: 1778 instead of 778 at 4:01