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6 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇺🇸 United States · Phantom island
Cartographic 1524–1640 (Verrazano Allefonsce era) · Franco-Portuguese cartography + Abenaki Penobscot real village kernel
Penobscot's silver city on 1540 maps – Allefonsce's report became New England Atlantis for 100 years.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient technology
Claimed 10,500 BCE Atlantean high-tech; literature 1924–44 Cayce readings · Claimed Atlantean (Poseidia) high civilization
Cayce's 1933 Tuaoi Great Crystal powering Atlantis — 1968 Bimini prophecy drove beachrock Atlantis hunt.
🇺🇸 United States · Submerged site
Pleistocene (exposed 36k–11k; fully closed 21k–14k cal BP brown/green zones) · Paleolithic Siberian / Paleo-American / Dyuktai / Clovis ancestors
36k–11k BCE steppe isthmus Alaska–Siberia now 53 m under strait — 2023 cores re-imagined as tundra, not grass.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Contact myth 1540–1605 · Wichita / Spanish Entrada
Northernmost of Coronado's Seven Cities expedition – Turk told Coronado of Quivira rich in gold east beyond Pueblo; Coro...
🇺🇸 United States · Pyramid
Claimed Aztalan–Rock Lake 1100 CE (real Aztalan 1100, lake pyramids 0) · Pseudo Aztalan / Natural glacial
Claimed 10 pyramids under 5–11 m Rock Lake — UW sonar shows glacial till not pyramids
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Claimed Hopewell? 3000 BCE (natural post-glacial 10000 BCE) · Pseudo Hopewell / Glacial
Claimed 40 ft stone circle at 12 m in Traverse Bay — Michigan DEQ shows glacial lag
