00:00.37 kinkella Hello and welcome to the pseudo archeology podcast episode 141 I am your host doctor andrew kingkella and tonight the Yana Goony submarine ruins are they just a pile of stones. Or something more. They're just a pile of stones. All right? So here I am early in the morning now. Shockingly so I guess at the beginning of this one I said tonight just for show dude sad you know. I can't even be honest with you guys just as always I have to just start with a blanket apology. So I was thinking you know for this this week as I often do like what can I do? what what? What should I do and actually. I I had a lot of ideas in terms of of themes and stuff I I got a lot I realize you know every so often that there are just these basic pseudor archeology stories and and it's funny as I go through this you guys I kind of I kind of live and learn with you. 01:16.80 kinkella You know I'm like man there's a lot of these stories and and ones that you just think of as kind of bedrock pseudor archeology stories or just or stories have just been around. You know that have just continued to exist so as I was thinking about what to do. Um I was like you know what about that like Underwater Japanese one that like those like underwater stones in Japan now this is one the yeah, the Yanagoni Submarine ruins or they're also called the yanaguni monument. It's It's just basically a I know I know shocker I'm going to I'm going to ruin my story It's just a geologic formation of stones underneath the ocean in Southern Japan thank very much It's fine to turn off now. But that one had haunted me for a long time because. I remember I ah a long time ago as as we're going to see the the stones were sort of first reported, you could say basically a guy scuba diving saw these blocky looking square stones and was like hey. Are those manmade and he kind of told another guy and so on and so forth and this happened in 1986 and so in 1986 I would have turned 14 and I think this story was picked up fairly soon after as they do you know if you think of like. 02:52.74 kinkella The recent mexican alien you know these things part of their their history is they kind of make a big splash in the media and then they kind of and then they sort of sit in the back burner kind of forever. You know what? I mean they they do their big splash moment because even in 1986 the various media outlets want their ah want their clicks. You know they want eyes on this stuff. So these stories are just kind of the the dopey stories of the week. So anyway, I remember. Being a teenager and hearing about this and you have to realize this is before I became an archeologist this is this is before I became the superhero that I am today friends when I was just a mild-mannered citizen I always had a scientific brain though. Um, but. As I've said in the past I I always liked these pseudoareology stories again when I was a kid I loved the show in search of which is really the equivalent of ancient aliens for today like I just I dug those shows and there's still a portion of me that loves the storytelling aspect in the science fiction aspect. I'm a huge science fiction fan. But anyway I remember hearing this thing about these stones underneath the water in Japan and I saw some video footage you know as a teenager and I'm like even at the time I was like yeah, that's nothing you know and it's just. 04:22.36 kinkella It's just so obviously not anything at all. But as I was thinking about this and I'm like I'm like how do I even make a story out of this like what's there really to say I will say this I had this like I had this epiphany where. The gods came to me friends as if in a fever dream and they said Andrew and I said yes and they said isn't it interesting that these stories in pseudo archeology often come. In twos and I was like yes god's you're right? What do I mean by that I've noticed recently in doing these things that a lot of times you have a main stupid story but then not to be outdone. You'll have this like secondary even stupider story but that's based on the same premise and what I'm talking about I recently did a podcast on moo right? The the island nation of Moo in the pacific and moo is obviously a bastardization. Of the Atlantis story right? So it's like Atlantis is the main story right? Atlanta Atlantis is the main fake story where there's this island in the Mediterranean you know or and or they kind of relate it out into the the atlantic and then it's of course not to be outdone. We take this same. 05:57.73 kinkella Premise and we're like but what about in the pacific and then you have Moo which is even stupider right? and so that kind of thing I've noticed in pseudo archeology right? where they take this that there's this 1 main story and then they just not to be outdone. They kind of just re they they resole it they reshoe it and. The second story of course will be much newer. So um, here this story as we get get into it of course reminds anyone of the bimini road the awful awful biminy road which which I realized I've never done I've never done a podcast on it solely. And I probably should but I did talk about it I think um I was thinking back and I think it was the episode I did where I went through Graham Hancock's ancient apocalypse because on that Netflix show he talks about the bimin he wrote. And just to remind everyone. The biminy road is otherwise known as the quote unquote stones of Atlantis but it's in Bermuda and it's and it's relatively shallow water I think it's twenty feet deep or something like that and these are those large square very square kind of pillow shaped stones. That are all in a line and they are a geological formation right? You can find these anywhere you can find them underwater you can find them above water but the bimney road is sort of the main Pseudo Archeology story on Fake Geological well real geological formations that have nothing to do with humans. 07:28.17 kinkella The main story on real geological formations that are said to be related to humans but they're not right? So that's the setup and the bimini road's been with us for a while now not to be outdone. We got to put one over in Japan. So we have like our our secondary sad you know. Lower ranking Xerox copy and that's what the yonagoony submarine ruins ultimately are and you know I feel like just titling it Yon gooney submarine ruins is. Clickbait falsehoods right there and I'm sorry friends for even titling it that even though that's the actual title of what it's called. You're going to It is also called the yanak kuni monument but submarine ruins you know you're going to go with that. When you when you originally listen to the story. You're like oh wait isn't is it a sunken submarine. No, it's not because you know that would be cool when we come back a deeper dive. Yeah yeah. Ah, deeper di you yeah see you? Why do you listen to this a deeper dive into the onegoney ruins.