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Yonaguni: The Japanese Atlantis That’s Definitely Real!

It‘s Probably (not) Aliens!

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Uh, Okenau Is a New Queue Island

The island of Yona Gooney has lots of rocks that look like this and that fractured this way. This is also very common, um, in the, in looking at bedrock that has been affected by earthquakes. And as far as I can tell, there are no signs of people living on it 8 to 10,000 years ago. The Ryukyu islands are in deep water, about 500 meter deep water on all sides. There's no land bridge to them during the last ice age so they would have had to arrive by boat. It makes sense that a 25-meter tall pyramids was only built over a couple weekends.

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