WEBVTT - S01 Episode 8 Extra: Into the Myst

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClain smith. For

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<v Speaker 1>the weeks in between episodes, we look at the stories that,

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<v Speaker 1>for one reason or other, didn't make it into the show.

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<v Speaker 1>In last week's episode, When the Light Fades, we looked

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<v Speaker 1>at the haunting tale of the Lightkeepers of Island More.

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<v Speaker 1>The island is one of seven small rocky outcrops known

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<v Speaker 1>collectively as the Flannin Isles, located seventy miles to the

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<v Speaker 1>west of the Isle of Lewis in the Scottish Outer Hebrides.

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<v Speaker 1>The island was often referred to as the Other Country,

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<v Speaker 1>a place where a mysterious other world had touched with

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<v Speaker 1>our own mortal world. It is a sentiment reserved for

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<v Speaker 1>a number of mythical and remote islands from around the globe.

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<v Speaker 1>Though many will be familiar with the fantastical Atlantis or

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<v Speaker 1>the lost land of Limuria, there is one island, once

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<v Speaker 1>thought to be hated, a few hundred miles off the

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<v Speaker 1>south coast of Ireland that may yet prove to be

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<v Speaker 1>the strangest of them all. The island is believed to

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<v Speaker 1>have first been charted by famed Italian mayorcan cartographer Angelina

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<v Speaker 1>Dulcet in thirteen twenty five. It would appear again in

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<v Speaker 1>his later map of thirteen thirty nine. Widely considered his

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<v Speaker 1>greatest achievement, the thirteen thirty nine Portland Chart now resides

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<v Speaker 1>in Paris in the National Library of France. Looking at

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<v Speaker 1>it today, it is a masterpiece of composition and geometry,

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<v Speaker 1>considered the finest map of the known world from a

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<v Speaker 1>European perspective for its time, It covers a region of

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<v Speaker 1>land encompassing northern Africa, West Asia, and the majority of Europe.

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<v Speaker 1>Despite some notable inaccuracies of scale, it nonetheless depicts a

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<v Speaker 1>clear picture of the various lands record, cognizable from any

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<v Speaker 1>modern day atlas. And yet if you look to the

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<v Speaker 1>left hand side of the map you will see something

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<v Speaker 1>fairly unexpected. Clearly marked just off the coast of Ireland

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<v Speaker 1>is a small landmass that over time has become commonly

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<v Speaker 1>known as High Brazil. The exact origins of the name

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<v Speaker 1>Brazil is unknown, and it is not thought to be

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<v Speaker 1>linked to the nation of Brazil, which instead derives its

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<v Speaker 1>name from the Pernambuco tree, otherwise known as brazil wood.

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<v Speaker 1>The likely providence is to be found in Celtic and

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<v Speaker 1>Irish folklore. Irish historians will be familiar with the Clan

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<v Speaker 1>Ay Brazil, whose iron Age chief, the eponymous Brazil, is

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<v Speaker 1>said to have lost his daughter in the River Gailem,

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<v Speaker 1>which flows into Gorway Bay on the west coast of Ireland. However,

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<v Speaker 1>it's most likely that the name is derived from another Brazil,

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<v Speaker 1>known in Celtic folklore as the High King of the World.

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<v Speaker 1>The immortal monarch was said to whole court on a

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<v Speaker 1>strange mythical island known as High Brazil, a place of

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<v Speaker 1>great and eternal happiness. The island was said to be

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<v Speaker 1>nothing less than the embodiment of the other world. As

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<v Speaker 1>the myth goes, the strange land was believed to only

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<v Speaker 1>appear every seven years, when it would rise from the

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<v Speaker 1>waters shrouded in mist. Any attempt by a mortal to

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<v Speaker 1>reach the island, however, would reveal it to be nothing

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<v Speaker 1>but a strange mirage, forever out of reach. What could

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<v Speaker 1>possibly have compelled to such a reputable cartographer as Angelino

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<v Speaker 1>Dulcert to include a mythical island on his most prestigious

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<v Speaker 1>slash Unexplained Podcast. In fourteen ninety seven, famed explorer Giovanni

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<v Speaker 1>Caboto made his name leading the first to European expedition

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<v Speaker 1>to the mainland of North America since the Vikings. Eighty,

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<v Speaker 1>Caboto launched the first of eight expeditions in search of

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<v Speaker 1>the mythical Celtic land of High Brazil. There is no

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<v Speaker 1>known proof that Caboto reached the island, except for the

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<v Speaker 1>report of one Spanish diplomat who traveled with Caboto to

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<v Speaker 1>North America in fourteen ninety seven. The diplomat, named Pedro Deayala,

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<v Speaker 1>maintained that he had made his journey with the men

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<v Speaker 1>who had found High Brazil. Controversial historian and Irish mythologizer

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<v Speaker 1>Roderick o'flahati also claimed sometime in the seventeenth century that

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<v Speaker 1>he had encountered a man named Mora o'lee who had

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<v Speaker 1>visited the island for a period of two days. The

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<v Speaker 1>claim remains unsubstantiated. Many have pointed to a sixteen seventy

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<v Speaker 1>four expedition taken by the mariner Captain john Nisbitt as

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<v Speaker 1>proof that the island had indeed been discovered. The claim

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<v Speaker 1>is now known to be the invention of Irish author

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<v Speaker 1>Richard Head. Regardless, the island of High Brazil continued to

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<v Speaker 1>feature in many charts, appearing again in seventeen seventy six

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<v Speaker 1>as a rock six degrees west of the southern point

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<v Speaker 1>of Ireland. The last non map to include the land

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<v Speaker 1>was a British Admiralty chart drawn up in eighteen sixty five,

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<v Speaker 1>after which the island appears to have vanished from the records.

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<v Speaker 1>When thinking of such places, it is hard not to

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<v Speaker 1>be reminded of Thomas Moore's own fictional land of Utopia,

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<v Speaker 1>perhaps the most symbolically fictitious of them all. And whatever

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<v Speaker 1>you believe, whether there be a truth to the existence

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<v Speaker 1>of High Brazil or any of the other mythical lands,

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<v Speaker 1>it is a curious myth that somewhere out there lies paradise,

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<v Speaker 1>if only we could discover it, when, after all, do

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<v Speaker 1>we not have everything we need to make it ourselves.

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<v Speaker 1>All elements of Unexplained are produced by me Richard McClain smith.

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