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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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...
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.
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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.
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"?
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 !
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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@@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.
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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?
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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.
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.
@@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."
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.
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.
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)
@@WestCoastWalker-zj6ob he was travelling around South America between 1488 and 1500. When Cabral arrived to Brazil it was Dias that knew where they could land as they know which tribe were friendly.
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.
Lovely video! I've always been fascinated by the tale. Also, you're descended from Malcolm Fleming? Me too! Fleming is my mother's maiden name. They went into exile in Ireland after supporting the Jacobean cause.
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.
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)
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One of the most famous navigators of the Middle Ages was Brendan the Navigator. (You can see his name "Brandain" at the top left of the map at 0:16) . His colourful tales of the Atlantic made his book the "Navagatio" the greatest best-seller (apart from the Bible) across Europe during the Middle Ages. His descriptions of the islands north of Scotland are interesting because they accurately describe the Shetlands and the Orkneys and the Faroes and even Iceland, which he described as "A land of Fire and Ice". In 1994 Ireland and Iceland and the Faroes Islands jointly published a commemorative set of 4 stamps (each in their own language) commemorating St. Brendan. An island on the east coast of Iceland is still called "Papey" (the Monks) which is where the early Viking settlers said Irish monks were living when the first Vikings arrived.. Mount Brandon in Kerry in Ireland is also named after Brendan the Navigator.
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.
It's possible that High Brasil existed as some kind of localized temporal event. Due to the planets rotation, and position in orbit, and gravimetric forces, the veil between two different timelines lines up so perfectly as to create a gap between the worlds for a brief period like the gears of a clock all aligning to 12:00.
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 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.
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.
What we were told about this island is that when the Spanish armada came to Ireland one ship crashed on the island due to the fog and was welcomed by advanced civilization 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 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 Arran islands
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 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
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.
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.
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. 🙏🏻😇✨️🤍🌈🌹
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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
They probably saw the lights of Boston or a lighthouse in America. Because as Eric Dubay, flatearthbanjo, flat out truth and flat water here on you tube says (and the many good and funny memes) the earth is flat. And only atmospheric conditions making fog, like only seeing things on a clear day. Makes us not see very far. Zooming in on ships. They don't go over any edge.
I assume lights from boats wasnt what they saw. And even if they could see the lighthouse they would have to be very far out to sea anyway because of the atmospheric conditions can't be secured so far. But i live in western Norway and if i could point a telescope to Shetland and see it that would be proof.
Check out three islands from 1587 Urbano Monte World Map - Brasil, Frisland and Hitlanda (now Porcupine Bank, Rockall Plateau and Faroe Islands) - and compare them with a 300m sea level drop map.
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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.
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.
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.
Theory: the island does exist. When the tide lowers on porcupine bank, a piece of land is revealed, only to be swallowed back up by the sea. This happens every 7 years. Do I have any evidence of this? Nah, just going off what the legend says and hoping to find a scientific reason for it. But hey could be!
So, do they pocket all the money, or not do what they're supposed to? I thought the whole point was that it was charity that preserves land, and the whole "lord/lady" was an added novelty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You should really say in your sponsor section that buying a bit of land in Scotland doesn't actually entitle you to be a lord/lady and it's more of a joke/novelty gift. Neither does the money go toward planting trees in Scotland or anywhere else. This company an others like it are constantly being called-out as scams, but they keep changing their name and finding new suckers to part from their cash. It's the same at the ones where silly people pay to have a star named after them.
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.
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.
It must be the key to breaking the magical seal on the island!
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.
Itl take more than 10
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.
There’s obviously some truth to the story then!
I drank a bit in my younger days and never once saw a mystical island.
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.
Coordinates?
What @@fallencobra5197 says...
Much like Atlantis in netflixes ancient apocalypse
@@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.
If it deletes the coordinates, you can search map for Porcupine Bank.
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.
So, you bought a gallon of ocean? China will fight you for it. 🙃🤣😂
“ lord hecklefish “ needs his rent on time
Thank you for your purchase I will use the contribution to buy scuba gear for the islands inhabitants
I wish I'd known this before. I would have included it in the video.
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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
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.
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.
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
I could be wrong but I think Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson have discussed the island and the timeline of when it supposedly sunk
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.
@@MrBlimko Oh dear......😅
Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
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 .
Can I ask how many pints had your father consumed before he saw this magical sight?
That's amazing! I want to know more!
* not *
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.
@@SSD_Penumbra in other words. Not real.
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.
Is there a point to that story?
@@connorbutler5900 Yes
@@connorbutler5900 Yes
@@connorbutler5900 yes
@@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.
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.
Rockall is written without the w
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...
I like telling them that "An bhfuil cead agam ag dul go dtí an leithreas" means something completely different.
Also, bollocks to your bollix.
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.
Did she also put up with you for a few nights if you catch my drift? 😏
I'm most concerned about the giant dog swimming around north of it on that map
Oh that's just Timmy -don't mind him, he might be big, but he's a good boy!
@@thegreatchimp he sometimes eats ships near Galway, I've seen it firsthand, but he's just hungry so he isn't held liable
@@irishakita Personally I blame the owners, they feed him all manner of shite
It's not a dog, just an island shaped like one
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I shouted no as well!
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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.
The ‘blue ball with the white line running through it’ on the flag of Brazil 🇧🇷 is a map of the Hy Brasil island.
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"?
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 !
Yes
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
I'd say that's the most likely scenario as well. Good to see someone being rational and sensible about the legend.
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.
@@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.
@RoachDoggJr Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Jericho, Indus Valley then Sumerians.
@RoachDoggJr all these sites have advanced cultures between 9000bce and 3000bce
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.
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What blow up?
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There's no way he didn't atleast raise an eyebrow when he got that sponsor but he decided to do it anyway.
@@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.
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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?
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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.
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.
Lol
@@grios5530 what's so funny?
There was the Little Ice Age from 1300-1850 or something, no?
@@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."
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.
With fake towns they become "real' if the town name is used for something in the area such as a local shop.
i dont think so
Still done by cartographers today. Have seen places on Google maps which do not exist in my country .
Mapmakers still do things like that. In a city map maybe a house or something that really doesn't exist
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.
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)
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.
@@TRAVELLINGCHANNEL1 I've never heard of this.
@@ColoringAHouse when Cabral arrived in Brazil in 1500, Dias was together and he was the one to greet the amerindians.d
@@TRAVELLINGCHANNEL1no in 1488 Dias rounded Africa .. he wasn't in Brazil.
@@WestCoastWalker-zj6ob he was travelling around South America between 1488 and 1500. When Cabral arrived to Brazil it was Dias that knew where they could land as they know which tribe were friendly.
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.
hahaha :)
I am certain there are politicians that believe exactly what you stated.
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.
Lovely video! I've always been fascinated by the tale.
Also, you're descended from Malcolm Fleming? Me too! Fleming is my mother's maiden name. They went into exile in Ireland after supporting the Jacobean cause.
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
*dryas, but yes
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.
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)
@@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.
I've lived in the West of Ireland my whole life and have never heard about this. Very cool. Thanks for this!
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.
The hiding spell must have been restored.
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.
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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.
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.
Bro, do you think this island is what Tolkien used for inspiration to create Valinor - the unreachable island of the Valar
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.
@@SSD_Penumbra Isn't that incorporated in the set up for the Tales of the Elders of Ireland?
@@SSD_Penumbra It's always weird seeing my name online.
One of the most famous navigators of the Middle Ages was Brendan the Navigator. (You can see his name "Brandain" at the top left of the map at 0:16) . His colourful tales of the Atlantic made his book the "Navagatio" the greatest best-seller (apart from the Bible) across Europe during the Middle Ages. His descriptions of the islands north of Scotland are interesting because they accurately describe the Shetlands and the Orkneys and the Faroes and even Iceland, which he described as "A land of Fire and Ice". In 1994 Ireland and Iceland and the Faroes Islands jointly published a commemorative set of 4 stamps (each in their own language) commemorating St. Brendan. An island on the east coast of Iceland is still called "Papey" (the Monks) which is where the early Viking settlers said Irish monks were living when the first Vikings arrived.. Mount Brandon in Kerry in Ireland is also named after Brendan the Navigator.
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.
.Morgan queen of faries.also appears as the banshee
It's possible that High Brasil existed as some kind of localized temporal event. Due to the planets rotation, and position in orbit, and gravimetric forces, the veil between two different timelines lines up so perfectly as to create a gap between the worlds for a brief period like the gears of a clock all aligning to 12:00.
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!
Don't forget to take pics. I'll credit you in the video
@@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.
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.
What we were told about this island is that when the Spanish armada came to Ireland one ship crashed on the island due to the fog and was welcomed by advanced civilization 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 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 Arran islands
another story but the legend goes back further than that
Brilliant, well-researched work. Subbed!
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
I was thinking about that incident from Rendlesham forest too. Very interesting.
@@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
It's more likely that Brasil exists than Established Titles is to ever plant a tree.
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.
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.
The thing where you can go get a small plot of land in Scotland and use the title of Lord or Lady legally, better check the fine print first.
There’s an island out in the waters of Ireland that appears every 7 years, you must believe this to be true.
And the residents breath once every 7 years, logic
@@thehatpoxwill have you never heard of snorkels? Cmon bro🤦🏼😉
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.
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@@thehatpoxwill It may be from another dimension and can only be seen by people on a certain frequency.
@@rozalina531 bro, if people could see things from another dimention believe me, you would not be talking about an island.
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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.
Growing up in Ireland I have heard this referred to as if it rhymes with 'Basil" or 'frazzle' rather than Brazil.
In the USA basil and frazzle don't rhyme. We say basil as bay zill, not like Mr Rathbone's first name.
Irish Tourist Board: ""Come and look for it when you`re on your way to meet a real-life Leprechaun in a Dublin pub too.""🤣
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.
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I thought that was Brigadoon that only appeared every so many years. 😄
Yes! I was looking for this comment
@@julie6092 same!
I think the wizard found a way to hide the island permently
Simple Explanation. The magician put the spell back up, obviously.
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.
Very interesting
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.
Valinor, the un-dying land, by any other name.
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.
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!
Sort of an early ‘paper town’ approach! I like this theory for originality!
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
So, Brazil was named after Brasil?
@@danielawesome36 Actually, Brazil is Brasil. In Portuguese, it's writen "Brasil". It's the English that write it with a "z".
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
@@jtomwalker6233 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Brazil#The_island_of_Brasil
Why were they indentured?
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.
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Brazil: HI!! Come to our country!! U will love it!!
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
They probably saw the lights of Boston or a lighthouse in America. Because as Eric Dubay, flatearthbanjo, flat out truth and flat water here on you tube says (and the many good and funny memes) the earth is flat. And only atmospheric conditions making fog, like only seeing things on a clear day. Makes us not see very far. Zooming in on ships. They don't go over any edge.
@@bjrnjohanhumblen525 wow 😮
I assume lights from boats wasnt what they saw. And even if they could see the lighthouse they would have to be very far out to sea anyway because of the atmospheric conditions can't be secured so far. But i live in western Norway and if i could point a telescope to Shetland and see it that would be proof.
Check out three islands from 1587 Urbano Monte World Map - Brasil, Frisland and Hitlanda (now Porcupine Bank, Rockall Plateau and Faroe Islands) - and compare them with a 300m sea level drop map.
Sounds like Brigadoon which only reappeared every hundred years, if I remember correctly/
I was going to say this. I got to perform in that musical in high school. Haven't worn a kilt since.
That's Scottish. The mythical island is called Tír na Nóg.
Exactly my thoughts!
It sounds like Donny Most to me...
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
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.
So Voldemort hid his horcrux there.
I've been high in Brazil does that count?
Yes, that definitely counts.
Only if you got high in Brazil were you then in hi Brazil
Me too🤣
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.
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.
As soon as “Established Titles” was mentioned, I knew I couldn’t trust anything this guy said
"You're going to Brazil!" and "You're going to Brasil!" have two very different meanings.
It’s spelled Brasil in Spanish, so not really
his advertisement is a conn the company is from a guy in the eu and has the company in asia
The Rendlesham Forest incident has a connection with the islands
Very interesting. What is the tie between the two subjects?
@@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
“Well ain’t this just a geographical oddity”
I feel like including the title Lord on one's dating profile is a solid strategy if one wants to remain single forever
What’s even better is that the whole thing is a scam based in china
It's also a scam
Of course it exists, it's called Valinor but only the Chosen can reach its shores
Omg. Hy Brazil is real?! And it really sank?
I thought that was just an Erik the Viking thing 🤯
At this point there is 0 excuse to accept established titles sponsorship. Everyone knows they're a scam
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.
Theory: the island does exist. When the tide lowers on porcupine bank, a piece of land is revealed, only to be swallowed back up by the sea. This happens every 7 years.
Do I have any evidence of this? Nah, just going off what the legend says and hoping to find a scientific reason for it. But hey could be!
My granda had always talked about this island when I was a girl! Happy to know more about it 🥰🥰🙏
The Established Titles thing turned out to be a scam.
Established titles is a scam. Stop using them as a sponsor
So, do they pocket all the money, or not do what they're supposed to?
I thought the whole point was that it was charity that preserves land, and the whole "lord/lady" was an added novelty.
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.
"this is established titles" oh nooooo
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.
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.
I hope you know that Established Titles doesn't actually get you a piece of land. It's a scam. You get a certificate and that's it. It means nothing
I reckon High Brazil was a map copyright trap like the fake island in gulf of Mexico area
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
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.
Could it perhaps be the same mythical Craggy Island where Father Ted lives?
My first thought when I saw the video pop up!
this sponsor aged like milk
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.
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.
That's pretty sick
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!
Could it not have been like a Volcanic island that resubmurged
That ocean bed is one of the best mapped on earth. The answer is no, sadly.
My very thought. Ah well we can't be always right 😉
You should really say in your sponsor section that buying a bit of land in Scotland doesn't actually entitle you to be a lord/lady and it's more of a joke/novelty gift. Neither does the money go toward planting trees in Scotland or anywhere else.
This company an others like it are constantly being called-out as scams, but they keep changing their name and finding new suckers to part from their cash. It's the same at the ones where silly people pay to have a star named after them.
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.
I’m from Ireland and that’s bollocks
Fishermen, huh? You mean the guys that go "It was THIS BIG! You should have seen the one that got away!"
Yet none of them had their phones on them?
yes stories abound in Ireland