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Fire From the Rocks, Part 3

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Geomythology

In 18 11, hydrographer and irish rear admiral, sir francis beaufort, linked mount chimera to the geographical features in the region known as janar or janartus. You have a rocky mount here with active gas seaps that have produced burning flames for depending on what sources you're looking at, perhapsa two and a half millennias, perhaps a 25 hundred years. So some still kind of interpret and say, well, this sight could have been the inspiration for the monster itself. It matches up with some of these other descriptions we've discussed in these episodes.

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