The Real Atlantis is Hiding Underneath Britain 

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*Those people living in that city are probably like:* “The rain was so bad that it sunk our city. British weather am I right?”

“And so castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually.” - Jimi Hendrix

It’s very impressive how he’s managed to get actual video and photos taken during the 13th century.

When someone from Hull eventually figured out how to use the internet they are going to be sooo offended at your remarks. 🤣 Keep up the great work.

That's why we bigfoots stay away from human cities, never know if they might end up underwater

It's ironic that H.P. Lovecraft's fictional city of Dunwich is more famous internationally than the original. It's very likely he swiped its name. But I'm sure "The Dunwich Harbour" would've been a very different tale than what he actually wrote.

We're having the same erosion problems here in the US, particularly on the lower East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. Homes in some areas of South Florida are now inches away from the waterfront. The North Carolina Legislature came up with a solution, though - they voted that the problem didn't exist.

I love hearing about British history! I’m American and so never really learned much about England. I love learning about the land that my Ancestors came from

Liverpool will be underwater? Well I guess I'm gonna need a Yellow Submarine

Dunwich : So ... Will you tell me how did you end up here? Port royal : its complicated...

I know it has nothing to do with the topic of the video but I kinda find it interesting how the northern European mainland seas are named... North Sea = Nordsee Baltic Sea = Ostsee (English = German btw) But translating it in reverse "Ostsee" would be "East Sea"

fun fact. this video is at least 10x more depressing when you realize you actually live in Liverpool

I live right around the corner from dunwich! The pub there does a lovely Sunday roast

In Britain, it only rains 2 times a year. Each time for 6 months

Fellow East Anglian here, totally remember going on geography school trips to Dunwich to learn all about coastal erosion and the unfortunate tale of the town 😁

Hearing you say "net full of cod" as you referred to Doggerland was a rather poignant statement for me. As a Newfoundlander, from the easternmost province of Canada, nets full of cod were once so commonplace that folks assumed it would go on forever. In recent years we are lucky to have cod fisheries opened for recreational fishing. Our once plentiful cod stocks are quite reduced. Unlike places like Dunwich, the loss of a way of life we have suffered is largely down to politicians giving away access to our fish stocks or at minimum not fighting to retain those stocks. Dunwich could do nothing to avert its faith and did nothing to prompt it. So tragic.

'You know what the British are like - got to have a small version of bloody everything.' Woke everyone in the house for laughing.

Love your site. I'm an old retired history teacher and a descendent of the English who came here to New England in the 1630s, so your site is fascinating.

This channel is rapidly becoming one of my top five favorites. I'm waiting for the printed book though. I have a friend that works at a large bookstore and she gets me good deals.

enjoyed the "wic" explanation. as somebody that lives in Kent, frequenting places like Greenwich... it's good to know "why" it is what it is.

Can we take a moment to appreciate his mustache

"Maybe 2040, if we're lucky" this cracked me up. I'm sensing some animosity towards Hull.

I guess you could say that "Eccles-on-Sea", is now Eccles in sea😂🌊

This was genuinely the most British video you have put out to date. Loved it.

"Imagine if I told you that in 200 years Liverpool will be almost entirely underwater." Please don't dangle my dreams in front of me, only to snatch them away. :(

"because you know what us British are like we've got to have a little version of bloody everything" cracked me up .... 🤣🤣

Thoughty2's videos are so easy to watch and are enjoyable, bravo! I only recently found you, but I am now binge-watching your back catalogue :)

As a native East Anglian, it is fantastic to see a snippet of our history on such an awesome channel! You should look for some interesting stories for videos in Norwich's history! Some real fascinating stuff!!

I wish we learned THESE kinds of topics in school, I would be much more intrigued and interested in learning about history that way

You should cover the Galveston, Texas flood. Spooky. Children playing in the water in their front yard in the morning, then trying not to drown on their roof in the afternoon.

I just found your channel a few weeks ago. I enjoy it so much, I've been binge watching it. Thank you. God bless you.

Though this was quite sad, the pure glee that I experienced at your exclamation : "Why the Holy piss..." was enough to more than cheer me up. Long live the memory of Dunwic. Thanks for sharing!!!

2:25 this man is a master chef, that does RU-vid as a hobby....

Arran is the friend that talks too much but that you also pay attention to. The kind of guys that gives you advice in the form of historical facts

The horror that came to Dunwich over the deep ones.

Reminds me of the Oregon coast. There are many expensive houses right on the edge of the cliffs going down to the ocean, some of them reinforced with wooden struts, all of them in danger of collapsing eventually. The home owners can't sell their homes because nobody will buy them, so they're holding out as long as possible. There are others that are located directly above caves that undermine parts of the coastal areas. I doubt they'll have any luck selling their homes, either, if they decide to leave.

Great video. Btw, greatly enjoyed reading your book 'Stick a flag in it'. Britian may have invented hockey, but Canada perfected the sport of hockey 😁.

How tf do you get so many videos out at this high level? You're incredible dude. Your whole crew is on another level.

I am so impressed with the spectacular quality of your productions and the broad reach of your knowledge.

I just want to tell you that I'm completely obsessed with watching your videos. Keep it up!

The reality is too many people live near coastlines. Coastlines are bountiful and have a lot of great qualities, but as you can see from this video, they can be very destructive too

I often get a kick thinking about the fact that if things continue as they are, one day my hometown will be remembered as the lost city of New Orleans. Such is life. 😉🍻

Excellent video with a ton of interesting information and very thought-provoking. Thanks, Arran👏🏽👍🏾🥰

You deserve many more subsribers/views. This channel is one of 2 channels I allow notifications from. Awesome job!

Brittish man: tells an intire story about how a city disappeared into the sea Dutch man: So????

The big problem with Dunwich is that it was built on sandstone so soft you can dig out a hole with your finger.

When I was still a lad, my Mother told me that her mother had told her that her ancestors were Basques who claimed that they were they were descendants of Atlantis who had escaped its destruction. Many of them spread throughout the Iberian peninsula. and mixed with whoever was there. MY DNA results show that it originated there, along with five settlements in Norway. Very interesting how updates in DNA testing has changed our understanding of our earlier history. This was another very interesting Video, and like all of your work, very well done. Thank you Lad. Be Well and Stay Safe

Thanks for the lesson on the pronunciation of wic, a lot of European and west Asian names have ic in it!

Thoughty2: If sea wants to take something, it just takes it. Me an intellectual: *looks at Dutch people*

"2040, if we're lucky" Lol!

Anybody noticed how Thoughty2 uses a dark non-altering background so that a considerable amount of internet data is saved. That's really thoughtful.

The same has happened along the Severn. In my 62 years here on earth the cost line has gone a fair few meters washing away many historic areas.

Eccles-on-sea was one of my favorite Doctors.

The Al Stewart song The Coldest Winter In Memory features the line "By the lost town of Dunwich the shore was washed away They say you hear the church bells still as they toll beneath the waves" The song is about a man fighting in the Great Northern War in the 1700s.

Thoughty2 looks like a 1850s British factory worker. p.s. you make great videos man!

Found this channel the other day and safe to say im constantly learning and loving it more!

original title: "How Did an Entire British City End Up Underwater?"

There are many sites of pre-historic cities on the continental shelves of the world. Doggerland was between today’s British isles and Scandinavia, flooded after the last ice age. There were many such early settlements flooded which is why The Flood is in many ancient legends of most civilizations to leave records or have myths mentioned from before recorded times. The summarians included it in the oldest written records on earth.

It is quite true!!! Medieval Dunwich was so much like Liverpool! A rarely mentioned fact concerning Dunwich is that, just like Liverpool, there was in that very town a "foursome of minstrels" all with matching page-hairstyles that reportedly "tooketh the whole state by storm" with hits such as: Wage Canst Buyeth me Loveth Twisteth and Shouteth Thy Lady Loveth Thee I Wanteth to Holdeth thy Handeth .. and many, many more!

Dunwich actually drowned itself deliberately after it was connected by public transport to Lowestoft...

I guess the WALES wanted a city of their own. hehe

Another very interesting video. I am from Great Yarmouth just a few miles up the coast. Little secret about the deserted Eccles on Sea; it isn't. I drove their at work as we do a fair bit of driving and often look for places to explore. Saw a sign saying Eccles on Sea and followed it, it really was undefinable and was literally like a small town forgotten by time, with houses with long porches, kind of a rectangle grid shape, no tarmac on the roads but an interesting little town for sure. Best I go for a beach walk along there. Thoughty2 you are my main teacher, I watched dozens of your videos and you always create intuitive, thought invoking videos that share the most valuable commodity we possess, knowledge.

Loving the picture of the sea wall at Dawlish when "big and important cities" are mentioned. That place is so small!

I am so old that whenever I hear Liverpool I think of the Beatles. I think I need somebody to hold my hand.

So, that silent W made it to NYC and now Greenwich is pronounced the same as Greenwich over there across the pond.

Absolutely amazing history lesson. Thank you!

You should do one on Derwent too. Purposefully flooded to make way for a resevoir! You can see the remains when the water is low.

British Empire: Rules nearly a quarter of the Earth's total land area by the beginning of the 20th century. Rising sea levels: Hold my Ice

We get it, England has left the EU; they don't need to keep moving a meter away every year.

Love the Monty Python 'My hovercraft is full of eels' reference! :D

Good video, I used to live in Aldeburgh (or Aldborough as it was on the old maps) and it also suffered a similar fate to its shipbuilding industry as the Orford Ness spit grew across the river, cutting off the industry that once built the Golden Hind for Francis Drake, fortunately for Aldeburgh it was able to make up its losses through fishing and eventually tourism but it still has problems with flooding and erosion, the small village of Slaughden immediately to the south of Aldeburgh was eaten by the sea around the same time as All Saints church went down in Dunwich, with the landlord of the last pub sometimes having the open the front and back doors to let the sea go through. These days there's concern that at some point the marsh to the north of Aldeburgh will be reached if the Alde river breaches significantly and basically turns the older part of Aldeburgh into an island, which will significantly improve the traffic problems in the summer let me tell you. Another interesting place to look at is Fairbourne in Wales, it's a town of around a thousand people at the moment, but has been designated as being abandoned as part of the 'managed retreat' strategy of coastal erosion which means at some point within the next twenty to sixty years the place will be unsuitable for living in. I bet you that house prices are still through the roof though.

"Consider for a moment, the modern day city of Liverpool" Me: Brain starts melting.

Because it NEVER stops raining in Britain!

Thoughty2 could you cover a video on "The Eye of the Sahara"? It's such a facinating location. Some theorize that it possibly could have been location of Atlantis. Regardless of that, it's still a amazing location that a long time ago had water flowing from east Africa to the west coast of Northern Africa. Satellite images show evidence of huge landslide type flood paths, there's also evidence of human archeology, sea shells, and guess what the name of the mountain range on the valleys edge that has multiple waterways flowing into the valley? The Atlas mountains. Lol idk it's at least worth sticking a flag in it lol

Eloquently put. Always enjoyable. The West coast , where I grew up , is however growing at the same rate as the East coast is eroding. The Mersey is kept accessible by constant dredging. The coast itself has also encroached into the Irish Sea by nearly 2 miles from Sefton to Fylde , since I was a lad. We're on the move , it seems.

Anther subject talked about in my university classes. The world changes and is changing rapidly, yet million dollar homes are put on land less than a meter above sea level only to have expensive renovations after a storm surge floods the town.

Well done pronouncing Happisburgh correctly, once heard a TV presenter call it Hap-is-BURG. Yes, BURG, like an American would! No excuse for that haha.

In 5000 years the British Isles will be considered as much of a myth as Atlantis until an archeologist that's considered a whack job by his colleagues dives deep enough to find a black taxi cab.

You're right. I do need my little version of everything. First, I drink my 10 litre tea mug, then my 9 litre one, then my 8 litre one, then my 7 litre one, then my 6 litre one, then my 5 litre one, then my 4 litre one, then my 3 litre one, then my 2 litre one, then my 1 litre one, then I repeat.

You should do a video on the Isle of Wight! We have many places around the island that has eroded over the last few decades.

This is similar to an old welsh story. Even to the point of hearing bells on a quiet night in the bay. I forget which bay. But its an old story. Edit... Cantre gwaelod is the name and it was said to be in cardigan Bay.

Don't normally comment on videos. But I love when you are speaking about something you find out all the grimy details. Keep up the good work.

I love how he so elegantly pronounces the g's at the ending of words. Whereas we Americans tend to drop off that ending g sound or do not pronounce it as clearly.

A drastic rise in sea levels may affect the city centre and areas close to the Mersey but the majority of Liverpool is too high above sea level.

I don't live in Liverpool but I am scouser in heart. You made me anxious.

Love the way you present your videos. Good stuff! 🍺😎👍

Every time I watch your videos your voice is so soothing makes me claim.

Ah another display of natures ability to ruin everyone's day. Great video btw listening to you're videos really takes the edge of my really long work days.

Thoughty2: 3:30 explaining there were different independent kingdoms. Me: an intellectual who already knew this by playing AC Valhalla 🤓

Hi Arran, maybe I can help a wee bit here. My adoptive father is a retired maritime geospatial engineer who worked for East Riding Of Yorkshire council for two decades. As it currently stands, the thought on why the North Sea is the way it is comes down to depth and climate change. Like the Bay of Biscay, the North Sea resides over low-lying land that was once populated. Basically, the more shallow the sea becomes, the more violent it gets. Current estimates have Hull, Hornsea, Skipsea and Withernsea underwater by 2045. At that point, unless we come up with a new approach, there won’t be a point defending them. The same is true of Kings Lynn and parts of Norfolk and East Anglia. What isn’t widely known is that the sea won’t stop at Hull. It’ll take all portside towns up the Humber and Ouse. This means that towns such as Selby, Market Weighton, North Cave, North Ferriby and Goole will be submerged also.

Real state agent: The difference between a seaview and a regular house is only $1 so would you like a upgrade? Citizen: No thanks my house will have seaview in a few decades.

WHY COULDN’T YOU HAVE MADE THIS VIDEO LAST WEEK A HAD A GEOGRAPHY TEST ABOUT DUNWICH YESTERDAY

considering much of that happened before the industrial revolution, id you cant blame it on climate change, but they will anyway, theres people out there that seem to think anything and everything can be blamed on climate change. they probably think that Mars is a waste land because of climate change issues.

That Doggerland info was great plot twist in your video. Great job on suprising me :)

I sat thru the entire ad read because I found an Arturo Fuente in the freezer while cleaning out the fridge at the wife's behest. I was too engaged in that sweet smoke to bother with skipping. Enjoy the engagement, my internet friend, as much as I'm still enjoying this cigar.

19:16 - 19:24 Hull will sink by 2040 if we are lucky 🤣🤣nervous laugh for me😂you got me there🤣🤣

Oh, it's close to Covehithe. Tom Scott made a video about it.

Found this guy today and he’s already one of my favourite youtubers if not my favourite 😂

Video 8... I do believe I'm starting to understand you! Nice work. Thanks!