Ireland's Supernatural Island that Can't be Reached

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For over 500 years an Island called Hy-Brasil appeared off Ireland’s coast, well it at least did on maps.
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[@73honda350]

The island of Brasil must exist because I just bought a square foot of land there so I am now a lord of high Brasil. A piece of paper says so.

[@ruthanneseven]

So, you bought a gallon of ocean? China will fight you for it. 🙃🤣😂

[@Z3nHolEminD]

“ lord hecklefish “ needs his rent on time

[@Paddyman8869]

Thank you for your purchase I will use the contribution to buy scuba gear for the islands inhabitants

[@GeographyGeek]

I wish I'd known this before. I would have included it in the video.

[@jamescrenshaw5097]

Be sure to add your title to a dating site profile, increasing the likelihood of suffering ridicule from the ladies 😅

[@troberts235]

There are old men who live on the west and south west coast of Ireland who swear they have seen the mythical island of Hy Brasil. The strange coincidence is that they generally claim to have seen this mythical island after consuming about ten pints of Guinness in the local pub.

[@ziggytheassassin5835]

It must be the key to breaking the magical seal on the island!

[@robertdouglas7460]

I'm from ireland . Ten pints of the black stuff isint even a huge session. makes you need a big black shite. No hallucinations. We eat mushrooms for that.

[@frankcarden4709]

Itl take more than 10

[@ironhell808]

0:24 the guy says islands one or 2 of them that used to give immortality and happiness but they're no longer there, he says this while showing a map of northern Ireland with both the islands clearly on it.

[@frankboff1260]

There’s obviously some truth to the story then! I drank a bit in my younger days and never once saw a mystical island.

[@tones7mca]

You can literally see it on google maps, under the water. You can even make out that it is (or more accurately was), similar in shape as shown on many of the maps. Worth remembering that at the time these maps were made, they would have had no ability to locate or survey that location. Either the maps were drawn from passed down knowledge/legend, or it sunk more recently. Either way it seems entirely feasible that an island once existed there, but at some point "sunk" in some fashion. Fascinating.

[@fallencobra5197]

Coordinates?

[@twentyroses]

What @@fallencobra5197 says...

[@Fo4assaultriflefan92]

Much like Atlantis in netflixes ancient apocalypse

[@tones7mca]

@@twentyroses @FallenCobra I did reply with coordinates, but it seems to be missing now. But honestly its quite easy to find, go to the South West of Ireland and basically just look roughly where the island is shown in the ancient maps in the video, off the left. You will see a clearly visible, small raised area, similar in shape to some of the images shown on the maps. Hope this helps.

[@thorr18BEM]

If it deletes the coordinates, you can search map for Porcupine Bank.

[@Oliver-yc5fi]

"This is Established Title." My actual reaction, I audibly yelled, "No!" You got tricked, bamboozled even. I am sorry for you. Here: 🧸 I hope he makes you feel better because the scammers did indeed trick you.

[@marcusandrebotheim6638]

yup, a big scam. you cant get a title and the land they say they sell you cant be sold to people not form Scotland/ England

[@Wolfhailstorm]

I shouted no as well!

[@alfie8356]

As soon is it mentioned scotland I knew what was happening 😂😂😂

[@mro4ts457]

That ad read aged worse than milk🤣

[@TheCelticbeast]

Great Video. Bad sponsor.

[@AudieHolland]

I read an account somewhere of a US sailor, who, during the War in the Pacific, had to abandon ship and drifted in their lifeboat for a few days. Without water, they started hallucinating. At one point the sailor noticed that their old ship, a destroyer, had appeared right next to them. The sailor started climbing up the shipboard and went inside looking for water. However, everywhere he looked, the taps were shut tightly and he couldn't move them. Disheartened, he climbed back down into the lifeboat again, lost consciousness and fortunately they were rescued a short time after. He marvelled at how he had experienced his old ship as something solid, he had climbed up and down onto it, had searched the decks and cabins but he concluded it must have been a hallucination. The fact that in the entire ship, not a single tap could be opened and he found no other provisions, told him he must have (very vividly) imagined it all.

[@connorbutler5900]

Is there a point to that story?

[@veronica_._._._]

@@connorbutler5900 Yes

[@boiboi505]

@@connorbutler5900 Yes

[@tomsmith3449]

@@connorbutler5900 yes

[@GuyNamedSean]

@@connorbutler5900The point is that lost sailors can hallucinate pretty wildly, and there's only a couple of accounts of people finding the island, the only detailed ones sounding completely absurd.

[@finn6492]

There are two underwater structures there. At around -80m as opposed to the surrounding sea bed which is -200m. Seems way too deep to have been above water in the past 2000 years but strange that they are there in the exact location islands were reported by sailors.

[@finn6492]

Can't add a link to google earth for some reason but if you look 280km west of the town of Cahersiveen in Ireland you can see it

[@cloudbloom]

I could be wrong but I think Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson have discussed the island and the timeline of when it supposedly sunk

[@MrBlimko]

Measurements underwater get tricky quick. Once the water reaches just above 'sea level,' the water will weigh down the land and sink the land. Any connected land can be affected as well. On the extreme end, the other end of the sinking land will be buoyed up like a seesaw. Or in the case of a shoal like this, their is no other end it could just be rapidly sunk farther/deeper than you'd think. Look into the 'missing' piece of land called doggerland, which probably existed for millenia longer than it otherwise would've after the last ice age in the north sea.

[@will7its]

@@MrBlimko Oh dear......😅

[@matthewryan2060]

Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

[@Matt-ur3dm]

I'm most concerned about the giant dog swimming around north of it on that map

[@thegreatchimp]

Oh that's just Timmy -don't mind him, he might be big, but he's a good boy!

[@irishakita]

@@thegreatchimp he sometimes eats ships near Galway, I've seen it firsthand, but he's just hungry so he isn't held liable

[@thegreatchimp]

@@irishakita Personally I blame the owners, they feed him all manner of shite

[@cypherusuh]

It's not a dog, just an island shaped like one

[@irishakita]

@@terraplanabrasil6898 ok and

[@eisirt55]

My father, together with two friends saw it from Ballybunion Beach in North Kerry , in the late 1930's or early 40's. Locally it is called Killsthoheen, a corruption or the Gaelic, Cill Stiofáin, The Church of St Stephen. It is said to appear in misty or hazy conditions . Those who see it are destined to depart this earth within 7 years . This was not the case with my father , but one of his companions , Tom Carroll was lost in a British Submarine which disappeared in the Bay of Biscay lot long after . My father described seeing a church spire, roof tops and an old woman sitting under an archway. She appeared to be selling something from a cask or barrel. Hy Brasil is, of course , the Tír na nÓg , Land of Youth , of Irish Mythology .

[@troberts235]

Can I ask how many pints had your father consumed before he saw this magical sight?

[@barbieblues7639]

That's amazing! I want to know more!

[@ThatCoalSoul]

* not *

[@SSD_Penumbra]

I was going to say. Here in Ireland, we take mythology pretty seriously and Hy Brasil is no exception. Older people, especially down near Cork and Kerry, will swear up and down that Hy Brasil not only exists, but is inhabited by the Tuatha De Dainann, the literal gaelic gods and is also home to the faeries, sinister littler bastards who like to play "pranks" on humans. Not pranks as we know them, but stealing children and replacing them with their own.

[@shichilaofa]

@@SSD_Penumbra in other words. Not real.

[@jimmymcjimmyvich9052]

Just bear in mind, there is a huge amount of bollix talked about mythical stuff in Ireland. Myself included. I once told a tourist that I was a taller than usual Leprechan. She put up with me for a few days. Grand it was...

[@badethics7542]

I like telling them that "An bhfuil cead agam ag dul go dtí an leithreas" means something completely different. Also, bollocks to your bollix.

[@MsLogjam]

As an American of Irish descent, I once told my Taiwanese boss that since it was Halloween, I needed to make a human sacrifice to honor my Druid ancestors and that a black-haired person was considered an especially lucky sacrifice. I said it all with a straight face and he believed me for a minute. He was an evil so-and-so.

[@limmeh7881]

Did she also put up with you for a few nights if you catch my drift? 😏

[@wojtekpolska1013]

its also plausible that it was just "a rock"/tiny island sticking out of the water (especially due to low depth in that area), that was only visible if the waves were low. this kind of stuff if found around the world every so often. and later it could've just eroded combined with rising sea levels, completely disappearing

[@candyman_315]

As other people in the comments have said, you can find an impression of the island under the water on google earth and similar services in around the same area it is on the map.

[@weekendmom]

From the book Phantom Islands of the Atlantic by Donald S. Johnson, in the chapter on Hy-Brazil : In fact, portions of the shallow banks west of Ireland were at one time above water. Shallow -water shells found at Porcupine Point, just beyond the one-hundred-fathom curve, indicate that at one time it was much closer to the surface, if not actually above it. The same kind of shallow-water shells have been found further north at Rockall, an inhospitable, solitary peak of granite with vertical cliffs that rise straight out of the water to a height of sixty-three feet. Rockall used to be a larger island that at present, and as recently as the seventeenth century, a nearby shoal was sometimes visible.

[@zbynekurbanek3345]

Rockall is written without the w

[@davidponseigo8811]

Many map makers in the old days would put a fake island on their maps to catch other map makers trying to copy their maps. If you are the only one who knows a island on a map doesn't exist and it shows up on a different companies map then you know they copied yours and you can take legal action.

[@michaelcross4112]

With fake towns they become "real' if the town name is used for something in the area such as a local shop.

[@Stefan_Johansson]

i dont think so

[@henriettagibril6381]

Still done by cartographers today. Have seen places on Google maps which do not exist in my country .

[@isaacbobjork7053]

Mapmakers still do things like that. In a city map maybe a house or something that really doesn't exist

[@LuisAldamiz]

Actually... that's common today but not so much in the old times, when the copyist was probably in another jurisdiction totally impervious to your foreign claims. Nobody sued Piri Reis, he copied it all.

[@eggnogalcoholic]

I’m so sorry your sponsorship with Established Title was published literally right before the blow up!! That happened to a ton of people

[@bonniemaxton-harvey4499]

What blow up?

[@joshuam.6027]

@@bonniemaxton-harvey4499 i guess when it found out that its a scam/elaborate fakery?

[@Nightdreamr]

Man even before the blow up how bloody hard is it to tell that the thing is a scam? Like, seriously, "become a lord of scotland by buying a PDF!" ????????? There's no way he didn't atleast raise an eyebrow when he got that sponsor but he decided to do it anyway.

[@ferrusvilkas8544]

@@Nightdreamr established titles has been a thing for like over a year now, you see other people accept sponsorships, and you don't question it too much if you get money for it. That's why people kept accepting the sponsorship.

[@Nightdreamr]

@@ferrusvilkas8544 "you don't question it too much if you get money for it" there it is, that's my problem with it. "Who cares if my sponsor straight up scams my own viewers? I'm getting paid!"

[@kavemanthewoodbutcher]

Drop that sponsor like red hot iron.

[@richardbarbaros5868]

Something else to note is that cartographers would add fictional islands to their maps as a sort of both a copyright and bait for copycats (as cartography and map selling was somewhat of a big business in the age of sail). If a copied map was circulated with the original cartographers fictional island, then they would know immediately their work was plagiarized and could pursue action against it. Only problem is that if the copied maps got too circulated, then those fictional islands were taken as being real places.

[@therealunclevanya]

I think Hy Brasil along with Friesland (another 'mythical' island to the north of Hy Brasil) are folk memories of a chain of island that submerged along the mid Atlantic ridge along with the more well known Atlantis in the aftermath of the Younger Dryas Extinction Level Event. When the North American tectonic plate rose up like a seesaw the Atlantic plate margin sank. Rockall is all that is left of this chain.

[@slashnburn9234]

I'd say that's the most likely scenario as well. Good to see someone being rational and sensible about the legend.

[@maxblast8210]

Agreed. ~13,000 years isn't too long for an oral tradition to last as a vague cultural memory. Especially since oral tradition is the only way they had to convey information on how to survive, "there used to be an island there but now there isn't" isn't a far stretch, especially if they had inhabited it but were slowly forced off from rising sea levels. Some may have remembered that their distant ancestors lived on an island off the shore there. I love when science legitimizes ancient stories.

[@lillianahunter1199]

@@maxblast8210 The movement of earth's plates is definitely fascinating, it makes you wonder about all the little 'islands' that may have been lost over time. If only we hadn't lost the knowledge collected in the Library of Alexandria.

[@roachdoggjr1940]

My only problem with that is that centric culture only goes back to 1000~2000BC. The Younger Dryas Impact happened around 10,000~11,000 BC.

[@therealunclevanya]

@RoachDoggJr Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Jericho, Indus Valley then Sumerians.

[@daveharrison84]

Was a sailor more likely to think "I must have missed the island" or "the map is wrong"? Was a sailor more likely to think "the map is wrong, it shows the island in the wrong place" or "the map is wrong, the island doesn't exist"?

[@dutchman7623]

That's quite obvious, any island which is not your intended destination can mean your death, because an island rises from the sea floor and might be surrounded by shallow waters and reefs. Better stay away if you do not have to be there. And there are other known rock formations just beneath the waterline where you do not expect them. So you'd better believe the map! Compare it with a space ship, and a black hole. Last message: F o u n d i t !

[@jtomwalker6233]

Yes

[@zbynekurbanek3345]

I am more or less convinced this particular island existed at some time in past... but the fact is if you send several unsupervised expeditions to a non existent island, part of them will find it.

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

I've done deep blue crossings as a sailor, and what's going through a sailor's mind is hoping you'll be awake enough to not hit a damned coral head in sight of shore after long, tiresome days out at sea. Coral heads are not on any charts I've ever seen. Reefs yes, but not one of those silent heads that'll sink a yacht on a dark night.

[@MagicaLucem]

@@ezekielbrockmann114 The modern day ship sinking danger and equally uncharted are those semi floating containers that litter the sea lanes. Taking a what is a large 40 metre motor yacht across the Atlantic we chatted 16 semi submerged containers, identified mostly by luck. I'd prefer a magic island to lost containers anyday.

[@prado1205]

funny because when the portuguese first reached the coast of northeastern braZil they thought it was an island, they named it "ilha de vera cruz" ("ilha" meaning island)

[@siloemascolo2769]

Baetolomeu Dias was already on the coast of Brazil since 1488, thats why Spain hired Colombo that had been in Iceland and knew about the America.

[@ColoringAHouse]

@@siloemascolo2769 I've never heard of this.

[@siloemascolo2769]

@@ColoringAHouse when Cabral arrived in Brazil in 1500, Dias was together and he was the one to greet the amerindians.d

[@reneevanderwal3825]

The Isle of Mist is another name for this island, the more common name to this day. Its been portrayed in many movies, and shows involved around Morgana le Fey and it's is in many of the Celtic lores, and most lore has a story where it began. There have also been much death trying to find this island, which does exist, you just can't find it due to the heavy fog that engulfs the island and the surrounding waters.

[@mariafitzgibbon4342]

.Morgan queen of faries.also appears as the banshee

[@jamesdunn9609]

Hy Brasil may have been a real island 10,000 years ago. And it may have been awash for a long time after the seas rose so that it seemed to appear and disappear periodically. Most early "maps" were just an accumulation of memories of sailors years after their voyages had ended. Subsequent maps just carried on what the early ones said was there. It wasn't until cartography became a real science that these things were sorted out properly. But there is a suspiciously coincidental undersea rise right where Hy Brasil was supposedly located. Who knows how far some of those sailors memories go back?

[@bryanodriscoll2123]

If the legend of this island began in the distant past there might have been something to it. Before the end of the last Ice Age the sea level was much lower than at present and many areas that are under the sea now were dry land at one time, including several areas to the west of Ireland. Where Rockall peeps above the waves now was once a substantial island, as was the area indicated as the Porcupine Bank. Many legends may have their origins much farther back in time than imagined.

[@MrToradragon]

I believe that I have read somewhere about plateau west of Ireland where ocean is less than 100 m deep. Certainly something like that is shown on some maps. So I would say that this is not far fetched at all. Problem is that our perception of history and world of the past is skewed by the world how we remember it. For example during last Ice age huge lakes and rivers rivaling Amazon formed in central Asia and the waters from the mountains of West Siberia went down towards Aral basin, Caspian basin and through strait between Don and Volga to Black sea. I have even seen speculations that story of Argonauts could have took place during that period. Given not so long lost features of river systems in Central Asia it could have been possible. Our memories are subject of distortion and people perhaps tried to map those old legends on what they knew. I believe that there could be some variation of HyBrasil legend along coast of western France, northern Spain and Portugal, if that is true and we would be able to find when those split from each other, or find some features in them that would help us date them, then we could get time period of this legends creation and then we can set clocks back, get the maps and find it.

[@grios5530]

Lol

[@amentco8445]

@@grios5530 what's so funny?

[@Ariadarkholme]

There was the Little Ice Age from 1300-1850 or something, no?

[@gaz8891]

@@MrToradragon Yep, I think you're right about the once swollen central Asian rivers and the journey of the Argonauts, but maybe it was more recent, the Bronze Age. I read a nice article about that topic. What is today called the Amu Darya was the River Oxus that the Argonauts sailed up and also how Alexander the Great crossed into Bactria. For instance, "The story of the golden fleece is remarkably similar to a process still practised today on the banks of the Oxus in Uzbekistan, where river water is poured down a slope on top of a piece of sheep’s fleece which catches the gold in its wool-like filter." See, "Alexander the Great sailed into India where no rivers exist today." And the video, "why Russia destroyed the world's 4th largest lake."

[@mrsokolov8954]

0:40 I've actually seen a case study from an Brazilian historian that spoke otherwise. Here we're teached that the name of our country came from Pau-Brazil, a tree that produces a Reddish type of ink that looks like the same color of embers (embers meaning "brasa" in Portuguese). However, the Portuguese had previously named one of the islands they discovered as Brazil when Brazil itself was called by them as Terra de Vera Cruz. This island now is called Ilha Terceira and is part of the Açoures Archipelago. So is much more probable that they actually just re-used a name that they had used before, but now for what was considered a bigger discovery. And due to Brazil status the original island lost it's name as to not get confused with Brazil. And just to make things even more confusing, apparently the mythological name of "Brazil" (the one used by the Irish) has also it's origins derived from the color red (derived from cinnabar to be more specific due to a latinization of the phoenician word for cinnabar {???}). So everything just goes full circle and there's no telling if Pau-Brazil actually helped Brazil to steal it's name or not, because both the mythological name and "brasa" have something to do with red. Jesus Christ, no wonder they don't teach this in school, AND RED IS NOT EVEN A COLOR ASSOCIATED WITH BRAZIL ANYMORE. (yet ☭). TLDR: Brazil got it's name by stealing it from an island that stole it from a fake island.

[@dimasgomez]

Not the color, but the ways. We are a fiery people, for sure. Now, seriously, that circularity is what makes a great name. But not in terms of "being named". The fact is that the land was full of people way before colonization (invasion). It is known as a fact that some places get a name from outsiders (like India from Indus river), but Brazil's name was somewhat negotiated here, in Brazil, because Portuguese was not predominant as a language here for almost three centuries. We talked a mix of tupi and guarani. Somewhat we are told that in the Courts it was called Brazil, but that doesn't mean anything. Men were called brasileiros, it seems more likely. The Portugal population was much smaller. Hence, absorbing eastern lore (european, african and asian), Irish lore, as much as Christian lore, was part of the process.

[@cyberpimp29]

Bro, do you think this island is what Tolkien used for inspiration to create Valinor - the unreachable island of the Valar

[@SSD_Penumbra]

Chances are it was more inspired by Gaelic folklore, more specifically the Irish myth of Tir Na nOg, or "Land of the Young", where the gods and the fae live and never grow old. In the myth, a boy named Oisin is hanging out one day and he's visited by this amazingly beautiful woman who promises to take him away. Oisin, being a guy, obliges her and leaves his parents and friends behind. He's taken to Tir Na nOg and he stays for a bite to eat but says he has to go. The residents say that once he leaves, he can never come back. Oisin leaves anyway, only to find out that he's been gone for *decades* and that his friends and family are all but dead.

[@thewhiteknightman]

@@SSD_Penumbra Isn't that incorporated in the set up for the Tales of the Elders of Ireland?

[@fightinandirish]

I've lived in the West of Ireland my whole life and have never heard about this. Very cool. Thanks for this!

[@TheAtlanticwarrior]

You have never heard of Oisin (Son of Finn McCool) going there for three years and when coming back to Ireland three hundred years had passed, fell off his magical horse aged instantly and could never go back ? Jesus, the west is more remote than I realised. Wait until you hear about electricity, cars, jets and the Earth is round by the way.

[@reagindoerindo4311]

The hiding spell must have been restored.

[@fryertuck6496]

This island appeared in 2020 during lockdown, it was a direct cause of no fat tourists in the water which caused a fall in sea levels.

[@walkietalkietraveller2932]

hahaha :)

[@danakraemer8512]

I am certain there are politicians that believe exactly what you stated.

[@gary_beniford]

Knowing what we know of sea level rise and the younger dryus period it is possible there was an island out there in ancient times

[@stephk5797]

*dryas, but yes

[@Filling_blanks]

I subscribe to this idea. If you see old maps of England and Ireland even from the 1600s etc. the coast line is a lot different, not because they got it wrong but the coast was literally different due to sea levels. For example, the region of "The Isle of Thanet" in Kent was literally an island in the 1600s.

[@branbroken]

Trouble is that sort of sea level rise for the seabed in that area would have been occuring 8-16 thousand years ago (so about the same time as early humans came to ireland give or take a millennium or 2) much as the area known doggerland was. However hybrasil only started showing up on maps C15 yet the much larger area of doggerland wasnt on the maps, the naming derived from the smaller dogger bank area recorded in mid C17(which would still have been underwater at that time)

[@gary_beniford]

@@branbroken with what we are learning more recently. modern humans may go back much longer than previously thought and human migrations happened much earlier than previously thought. For example we thought humans had been in the Americas only 10,000 to 15,000 years but a recent human footprint fossil in California was dated at 40000 years old.

[@yateleyhypnotherapy2111]

This was the most original & interesting video I have seen in ages! Thank you!

[@thenatespecial]

Aren’t there stories of countless islands that consistently rise and lower in the sea based on rising or decreasing sea levels? It’s possible that this island could show up during extremely low tide seasons but only a small amount of the island just to say “hey I’m still here!” But considering how the tides never go that low anymore, it’s hard to say if it’ll actually stay or not.

[@veronica_._._._]

Booked 2 weeks in Hi Brasil but l'm switching to Lyonesse near the Silly Isles after watching your 1⭐ review. Cheers for the heads up, see ya round the pool!

[@GeographyGeek]

Don't forget to take pics. I'll credit you in the video

[@veronica_._._._]

@@GeographyGeek Alright! Cheers! l'll have to run the still photos idea past Prince William, (Dook of Cornwall and sundry isles) tho, and that Poseidon character as well, they have got "permissions" pretty much sewn up between them.

[@jonfr]

On Google Earth, the area shows flat ocean floor. What is interesting is that the area shows signs (Google Earth ocean map is based on ship radar images) of possible old rivers from around 12.000 years ago when the area was a dry land above ocean floor. There might be other explanation for the river looking mark on Google Earth.

[@cameronburke8002]

The description of Hy Brasil is almost identical to the description of Tír na nÓg, a mythical Irish land. Hy Brasil is off the west coast of Ireland. It is hidden in fog for years and emerges every 7th Year. It is a paradise where inhabitants are immortal. "Tír na nÓg" translates to land of youth. It is a paradise hidden in fog or under the sea and is a place where people stay young forever. The story of Tír na nÓg is something we all learn in school here. Oisín was an Irish hero and fought with the Fianna. Niamh came to him from Tír na nÓg on a magical horse and they fell in love. Oisín went to Tír na nÓg for 3 years but missed Ireland. He returned to Ireland on the magic horse but fell off it. When he fell off, Oisín got extremely old extremely quickly, turns out time travels slower in Tír na nÓg and 3 years there was 300 in Ireland. Oisín died but not before St. Patrick bursts into the room and converts him to Christianity.

[@sean_d]

Growing up in Ireland I have heard this referred to as if it rhymes with 'Basil" or 'frazzle' rather than Brazil.

[@MuRpHyKn0t]

In the USA basil and frazzle don't rhyme. We say basil as bay zill, not like Mr Rathbone's first name.

[@nozrep]

even though the last ice age was many thousands of years ago, to me, it does seem possible that the island could have appeared during some of the more recent volcanically caused “cool periods” whereby the earth’s ice caps would have increased markedly, slightly lowering the seas possibly. It is only my wild guess but also the “cool periods” brought on by ash haze from volcano eruptions have been conclusively proven through ice core drillings and subsequent analysis and datings.

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Immediately brought to mind the mythical _Avalon,_ a land that only appears after passing through an enchanted mist. So you have to have powerful magic on board to see it and to approach it. Otherwise, it remains invisible to boaters. I'll bet some awesome stories have been told about the island.

[@branbroken]

Glastonbury isnt invisible.

[@joltjolt5060]

@@branbroken glastonbury isn't avalon.

[@Ariadarkholme]

@@joltjolt5060 Yes it is.

[@branbroken]

@@joltjolt5060 its one of the most probable of the speculated sites and hasnt been disproven. Where do you consider avalon is/was then?

[@PhilipKerry]

@@branbroken The most probable sites are in Cornwall .......

[@mrzombie1780]

What we were told about this island is that when the Spanish armada came to Ireland oneship crashed on the island due to the fog and was welcomed by advanced civilization race only one survived from the shipwreck. After a week or so the advanced race got to know him and offered him a safe passage back to the mainland. So he gathered a crew crew of sailors to look for the island again but never found it.. but there's 365 small islands in clew bay cold be one of those or achill , Clare island, or the Aron islands

[@forrwhat]

It's very early cartographer's attempt at copyright. These were the days before the printing press and mass communication. Cartographers would place non-existing islands on their maps to be able to tell who was plagiarizing their work!

[@edm2822]

Sort of an early ‘paper town’ approach! I like this theory for originality!

[@davidtempleton3109]

That's the Same area as the binary code showed from Rendlesham Forest incident 26 Dec 1980 One of the soldiers touched it and couldn't sleep as he kept getting numbers in his head. It was 1s and 0s binary and when the info was ran through a computer it found coordinates which are almost exactly where this isle appears

[@cynthiatrujillo850]

I was thinking about that incident from Rendlesham forest too. Very interesting.

[@davidtempleton3109]

@@cynthiatrujillo850 yeah it's a weird one especially the binary code that the soldier didn't know of or understand until someone with knowledge of it got the coordinates but it was further south by maybe 100 miles if that from where that island appears. Bonkers

[@BritishCryptids]

Brilliant, well-researched work. Subbed!

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[@inger9727]

Fata Morgana is the term used to describe this phenomena. Often islands are described as appearing and then only to disappear at different intervals, leading to islands being mapped that never existed.

[@jaysalazar4977]

Very interesting

[@LittleKitty22]

Fata Morgana refers to the phenomenon of seeing water in the desert when one is dehydrated. Water that doesn't exist I mean, when the person tries to reach it, it disappears.

[@kea4185]

There are many maps that used information from far, far older maps that show islands/land that have been covered by water for thousands of years. One of the most famous is the Piri Reis map created in 1513 that shows Antarctica's as it would have been during the ice age.

[@gaz8891]

Actually that map might be from Bronze Age times, when temperatures were much warmer than today and quite probably the poles were ice free. It's called the Climatic Optimum and lasted from c.5,500BC to 2,000BC. The ancient Greek myths and legends probably date from those times, as do the early Bible stories.

[@mikerotch1135]

Established titles is a company based out of Hong Kong not Scotland and there are laws on the amount of land you need to own is a decent amount more than a square foot

[@sotonin]

Yep. Established titles is 100% a scam. So sick of idiots like this guy promoting scammers to empty their viewers wallets. It's not true, you get a piece of paper that is worthless, thats it.

[@5amH45lam]

"sailors were 'disorientated'" 🥴🥃

[@leahwhiteley5164]

I thought that was Brigadoon that only appeared every so many years. 😄

[@julie6092]

Yes! I was looking for this comment

[@LangstonDev]

@@julie6092 same!

[@TheShootist]

Valinor, the un-dying land, by any other name.

[@MrToradragon]

Sir, don't give me a hope that it would be so easy, to at least see it, even if it would be impossible to reach it.

[@vin-cc9nk]

There are some historians and linguists that actually think there may be a link between the island and the naming of modern day Brazil since the myth was very much present in the Iberian peninsula for centuries and the island appeared in many maps made in the region during the 14th and 15th centuries. It's just an hypothesis though, and the historical record isn't conclusive enough to be sure.

[@eh1702]

People on the west coasts of Scotland and Ireland knew there was a “big island” out west because bits of monkeypuzzle trees (once common in south America) and exotic nuts like molucca “beans” and even coco de mer would come in on westerlies.

[@stevelawrence5123]

Sounds like Brigadoon which only reappeared every hundred years, if I remember correctly/

[@blueptconvertible]

I was going to say this. I got to perform in that musical in high school. Haven't worn a kilt since.

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

That's Scottish. The mythical island is called Tír na Nóg.

[@leahwhiteley5164]

Exactly my thoughts!

[@LangstonDev]

It sounds like Donny Most to me...

[@halogalaxy5612]

There’s an island out in the waters of Ireland that appears every 7 years, you must believe this to be true.

[@thehatpoxwill]

And the residents breath once every 7 years, logic

[@brodysievers5163]

@@thehatpoxwill have you never heard of snorkels? Cmon bro🤦🏼😉

[@rozalina531]

Yes I have seen it when I was running on the Prom near Galway Bay. I didn't know about the island at the time. It was foggy and misty. I remember thinking I had never noticed this island before. I never saw it again since then. I always look for it when I go back to Galway to visit. I wish I had taken a photo of it. It looked so mystical , foggy and ghostly. And it just appeared randomly from nowhere. Amazing! Then I researched about it , unbelievable. 🙏🏻😇✨️🤍🌈🌹

[@rozalina531]

@@thehatpoxwill It may be from another dimension and can only be seen by people on a certain frequency.

[@thehatpoxwill]

@@rozalina531 bro, if people could see things from another dimention believe me, you would not be talking about an island.

[@0therun1t21]

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[@richardjamesclemo6235]

The ‘blue ball with the white line running through it’ on the flag of Brazil 🇧🇷 is a map of the Hy Brasil island.

[@logankoster4703]

Simple Explanation. The magician put the spell back up, obviously.

[@jackstoltz1379]

It was probably an island that was eroded away from storms and would some times peak above the surface. Until it was completely gone. We had Islands like that.

[@RemnantM1]

Today our sponsor estalished titles is selling plots of land on high brazil, become a wizard of the island tower today!

[@GeographyGeek]

That’s actually how I’m being paid

[@gearoiddom]

I once saw the illusion on a pleasant day from the western slopes of Mount Brandon. Very convincing. Probably just atmospheric conditions. If you knew no better you would try to sail for it.

[@trinityof1]

im from ireland, i know of fishermen who have not just seen it but landed on it. there was a famous story told of how 2 fishermen landed on it and found very strange creatures and what they decribed as magic. even to modern day there is still sightings of the island.

[@brunobaron458]

I’m from Ireland and that’s bollocks

[@Ariadarkholme]

Fishermen, huh? You mean the guys that go "It was THIS BIG! You should have seen the one that got away!"

[@tombombadil2049]

Yet none of them had their phones on them?

[@kathiemahoney4261]

Thank you for this!

[@SuzA8110]

Well, I've never heard of Hy Brasil before - very interesting. Thank you for your video as it gave me an ear worm for another vanishing land mass in the general area. 🎶Brigadoon, Brigadoon, in thy valley there'll be love... 🎶

[@nobody8328]

Omg. Hy Brazil is real?! And it really sank? I thought that was just an Erik the Viking thing 🤯

[@TheBlackcredo]

I don't know if by now you haven't found out yet, but Established Titles has been revealed as a scam.

[@ciaranclancy3296]

The old fishermen of Killybegs in Co Donegal have spoken about seeing the lights away in the distance towards America when they were out fishing at night, and that was long before street lights were ever installed in Ireland except for towns like Belfast and Dublin

[@invisiblejaguar1]

Very interesting legend, I've heard of this island before and it was the inspiration for a mysterious island of magic I have in my fantasy screenplay.

[@devanman7920]

I've been high in Brazil does that count?

[@davidkelly5899]

Yes, that definitely counts.

[@mattsavage9960]

Only if you got high in Brazil were you then in hi Brazil

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Me too🤣

[@adamallen8787]

I was looking at a map of Irelands exclusive economic zone and one map had a zone around a island that is around the area of this mythical island and I even looked on google maps for it but couldn’t find anything

[@thegreenbaron6439]

Just to be clear, Established titles is a scam

[@hopetagulos]

The Azores archipelago under fata morgana effect, a maritime mirage, may have inspired this Irish legend. The phenomenon makes you visualize very distant things and gives the impression that you are suspended or levitating on the horizon.

[@magicmurphy]

there's also a story that there was an early sea expedition to Brazil that was crewed by indentured Irishmen. Land was obscured from view because of dense mist/fog, as they approached it appeared from the mist. The Irish crew thought they'd found the island of Brasil and the name stuck

[@danielawesome36]

So, Brazil was named after Brasil?

[@romeufrancisco7041]

@@danielawesome36 Actually, Brazil is Brasil. In Portuguese, it's writen "Brasil". It's the English that write it with a "z".

[@jtomwalker6233]

Brazil was named after brazilwood (pau-brasil) that the portuguese found there and brazilwood got its name for its bright red, ember-like (brasa), sap

[@magicmurphy]

@@jtomwalker6233 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Brazil#The_island_of_Brasil

[@hetrodoxly1203]

Why were they indentured?

[@mrwayne5158]

One things for sure. Its most likely that the island exists for the many accounts of claims made by different people. When theres alot of accounts there is something there.

[@TheBlackHelicopterRevue]

Hy Brasil is 'Guyot'. A sea mount that can be exposed a certain times, for years, decades or even centuries, depending on sea level changes. I am a retired Geologist.

[@PoutingTrevor]

It's more likely that Brasil exists than Established Titles is to ever plant a tree.

[@lucillebluth2616]

My granda had always talked about this island when I was a girl! Happy to know more about it 🥰🥰🙏

[@Paddyman8869]

The Rendlesham Forest incident has a connection with the islands

[@jimmyMACsez]

Very interesting. What is the tie between the two subjects?

[@Paddyman8869]

@@jimmyMACsez one of the soldiers who got to close to the craft was apparently shown a vision part of it was the Latitude & Longitude of the island

[@phillipallen3259]

That's pretty amazing! Thanks!

[@chadhagans6687]

These sorts of islands no one can find anymore reminds me of something I read of about the mid Atlantic ridge. It would’ve been at a much higher level at the end of the last ice age, along with the sea levels being much lower. Mostly due to the ice caps above Canada. Imagine the weight of a 2 miles thick continent sized ice sheet impressing upon the middle of the N.A. continent causing the edges of the continental plates to rise to adjust. The area included & adjacent to Hudson Bay are still experiencing isostatic rebound today from the relief of losing those miles thick ice sheets on the surface. With this knowledge places considered legends or myth such as High Brazil or even Atlantis(the island, the culture idk) may have been places of refuge during the last ice age or at the least a savior for fisherman or sailors off Ireland or The UK. Or even those off europes western coasts blown to sea. Eventually to return infusing what we “know” as fairytale. But somehow still managing to make their way on to maps and into the greater “consciousness” of mankind.

[@avantelvsitania3359]

Note that the country of Brazil’s name is written as Brasil in its original Portuguese.

[@lus4582]

O círculo azul com a faixa branca na bandeira do Brasil lembram o formato da ilha de Hy-Brasil...

[@crypticnomad]

I feel like including the title Lord on one's dating profile is a solid strategy if one wants to remain single forever

[@Alphisus]

What’s even better is that the whole thing is a scam based in china

[@5xof]

It's also a scam

[@andreassjoberg3145]

Note the Island of Surtsey, it could have been the same volcanic hotspot before it moved, and the same kind of volcanic island that then sinks into the crust.

[@kalafinwe5498]

5:57 I can translate it in French if anyone is interested. ''Dans ce parallèle et a un degré de longitude quelques cartes marines représentent une île a laquelle elles donnent le nom de Brasil. Et à 46 degrés et demi de latitude et 356 degrés de longitude ou environ une autre qu'elles appelle Afsmanda. Je ne sais sur quel fondement ces deux îles ont étés placées mais j'ai de la peine à me persuader qu'il y ait des îles si peu éloignées de nos côtes qui nous aient été inconnues jusqu'ici.'' At this parallel, and at one degree of longitude a few mariners maps represented an isle to which they gave the name Brasil. And at 46 degree and a half of latitude and 356 degrees of longitude, or about, another which they call Afsmanda. I do not know on which basis these two isles have been placed but I struggle to persuade myself that there were such isles so little distant from our coast that they have been unknown to us so far.

[@owentheeditor9602]

Could it not have been like a Volcanic island that resubmurged

[@gearoiddom]

That ocean bed is one of the best mapped on earth. The answer is no, sadly.

[@nct948]

My very thought. Ah well we can't be always right 😉

[@whereswaldo5740]

I recall a story where an island in there abouts or Azores or somewhere in the Atlantic in that region. And a ship in days of sailing saw an island where there should be none. A dense thick fog encompassed it. And they took a bout to see it. The stepped out and noted it was hot. The ground was hot. And steamed. And heaved. The smell was bad and there was no life. Flora nor fauna. They were spooked and swiftly returned to there skiff. And once aboard ship it swiftly sank. Disappearing submerging into the sea. All were astonished. It was obviously volcanic. And we don’t often associate the Atlantic as being that active. But it is.

[@1dsmav]

I read every single comment I saw in a seriously thick Irish accent.. somehow it seems more real when it is done this way! Slàinte!

[@shawnmcdade]

Seems Hy brasil and Tir na nOg are the same island as Avalon. One day every 7 years it's supposed to be visible. Also said to have a magic tower that may have technology related to Atlantis. Could account for it's time displacement.

[@badcampa2641]

I reckon High Brazil was a map copyright trap like the fake island in gulf of Mexico area

[@IOwnKazakhstan]

It is possible that a real island was there, the northernmost point of (I believe) iceland is a tiny rock island, it used to be huge and important, but now, it barely exists there, it has eroded SO fast in fact that they don't really know what to do now because once it gets low enough, can they still really claim it as their own for border reasons? And the reason why I bring this up is because on google earth you can see a dark spot right where it is drawn on maps. It's small enough for me at least to believe that it could have been there but now be almost entirely eroded, I mean the waves out there get pretty strong to it's possible.

[@themotherofyou8854]

That's pretty sick

[@valproton3841]

There are loads of Islands off the coast of the Ireland and the UK that vanished beneath the waves when sea levels rose, many were marked on maps, some even have named citadels. I think they were eventually washed away by the giant tsunami caused by a landslide off the coast of Norway. One such Island, Atland, all that remains is Rockall the top of a mountain sticking up out of the ocean, was one with named citadels, and you can clearly see a corkscrew cavitation mark south west of it, caused by the mass of water passing over it. The big question is who originally mapped the islands. We know the oldest global maps were compiled from various other much older ones.

[@eliwood2328]

It could be some kind of time warp. the people who see it don't realize that they've either gone ahead in the future or back into the past when the island used to exist.

[@Generlc_Human]

"You're going to Brazil!" and "You're going to Brasil!" have two very different meanings.

[@sanguillotine]

It’s spelled Brasil in Spanish, so not really

[@HansVerhoog]

Interesting story again 🙂 Hope you'll make many more. Also a question: on the maps you used I saw some islands called Koe and Kalf islands. To me this sounds very Dutch. Or is that just an old Irish spelling that's used there? Otherwise it might maybe be an interesting question for a future vlog, finding out why there are Dutch Islands there ;-)

[@chriswhamilton]

That may have just been Dutch maps. The Calf Islands are off the South West of Ireland. There is also a Cow Island further north.

[@ihonestlydontcare1158]

No the cartographer used old English which would’ve had a Dutch influence. It’s just called Cow Island and Calf Island in English.

[@SmilerORocker]

Definitely not an Irish map anyway... We don't have the letter K in the Irish alphabet. Although the English tried to use Irish names they heard, they would basically phonetically make the spelling, but it seems unlikely

[@SmilerORocker]

@@ihonestlydontcare1158 old English is very like German too... I'm not sure of spelling but I know the example of Brun Cu being a brown cow... I always remembered that as it sounds very like the Irish. Very interesting though. Interestingly, Irish translates in a similar way to German,.. sort if backwards and wordy. By backwards I mean the words don't translate in the same place in a sentence, I suppose a simple example would be.... If I say in Gaeilge that I have 3 brothers, it translates as 3 brothers I have.

[@guusvanrijn]

They litterialy mean cow and baby cow

[@TrephineArtist]

I remember the island of Hy Brazil from the film Erik the Viking! 😄

[@tomfromoz8527]

There was at one time a small island close to Coney Island Bk, N.Y. which had a hotel and small resort. A hurricane wiped it from the sea, and I was told that even up to the mid-late 20th century china and cutlery would wash up on the beach at Coney Island after storms. So it *is* possible. Tom's wife Pam

[@applegateoutdoorsadventures]

There have been reports that "established titles" is not exactly what people are being led to believe. Maybe you should check on your landowner status with the Court of Lord Lyon and also see if any lordship or coat of arms was established. I would love to know what you find out about your souvenir plot.

[@sotonin]

Nice diplomatic way to say established titles is 100% bullshit. It's a scam and it's easy to be aware of this with a simple google search. So sick of idiots promoting this scam.

[@bellerophonchallen8861]

there's something about the seven year thing, other than the 'seven year itch'. A wartime plane used to appear on a beach near me, once every seven years when I was a kid. It would be there for a week or so before the sands shifted and it was hidden again, minus whatever people had managed to wrench loose for souvenirs.

[@jackjackmillar]

where was this?

[@bellerophonchallen8861]

@@jackjackmillar West Wittering, West Sussex. Not sure if it is still there or if it was taken away when the beach became popular in the 1980's. There are also planes and ships that appear every seven years on the Goodwin Sands, documented in Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks by Richard Larn. Well worth looking out for.

[@MrToradragon]

@@bellerophonchallen8861 That is interesting. Do they appear do to tides, or does the sea level drop for some time?

[@bellerophonchallen8861]

@@MrToradragon it appears to be changes in the tidal direction. My father was responsible for a section of the dunes at WW in the 70's and the dunes would build up over several years, then overnight a storm would come in and wash away years worth of dunes. Not sure if there was a seven year gap, but something in the tide had changed and ate away at the thin isthmus joining the main body of dunes to the shoreline proper. I only remember the seven year revealing of the wreck though, it made the local paper each time.

[@valkyrie1066]

I can't believe it. Monty Python crew got it wrong? In Erik The Viking, when they visited Hi Brazil. there wasn't a large black rabbit in sight!

[@andrewtime2994]

Might there be a connection to the Viking stories of Iceland? The tales of places the sea was frozen solid or boiling hot were dismissed as impossible, except by superstitious sailors who did not want to sail west. Volcanic eruptions cause land to appear and dissapear, and information about anything inexplicable can be spread by calling it magic. Stories along the coast of Ireland could be influenced by Viking tales.

[@teli.tuketu]

Do you happen to know a name of that 14th century map? I’m curious about hyperborea and Friesland.

[@erikdekuil4629]

Long ago Friesland spanned from the (modern day) Danish to the Belgian border. What remains of Friesland is a province in the Netherlands, although there is still a Friesland on the German wadden sea coast.

[@-Reagan]

Brazeale is a correct spelling; to explain, until the 17th century spelling was not standardized. As well, spellings of names are subject to change and are not subject to standardized or grammatical spellings. Brazeale is an Irish name, (sometimes pronounced the same as the country Brazil and sometimes with a Gaelic enunciation, so it’s a homonym). It’s that of my maternal grandparents. My own name, Reagan is also Irish and another example, being several ways, with or without the O’ as in one older iteration “O’Raigain” from which it was derived. It’s a legend in my family that the island DID EXIST and it’s been underwater. This isn’t even a mystical Atlantis because this has happened to many islands. It’s not far fetched. Atlantis isn’t even that far fetched, except for the other stories surrounding Atlantis, like it being destroyed by angry gods. If we did not have the remnants of Pompei literally encased and preserved in ash for centuries, we probably wouldn’t believe that happened, either. Really interesting documentary on it, so thanks!

[@ollie4398]

I'm sure I watched a gnarly short documentary about an Irish guy that goes out and surfs the swell that's caused by this underwater land mass

[@JohnJ469]

Interesting. If you look on Google Earth there is some sort of sea mount about 40 kilometres south of the U-571 marker. Considering the upheavals the UK and Ireland have gone through it's not impossible for there to be a sunken island there.

[@kcurran9913]

Omg Tír na nÓg exists!

[@g4man41]

Don’t let Established Titles con You. Do some research and You’ll quickly find it’s a scam company.