Rowan & Pine: A Spooky Folklore & Mythology Podcast
Sep 25, 2026 · 15 min · 10 segments
On 7 June 1692, a massive earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami killed two thousand people and submerged the city of Port Royal in Jamaica. Once dubbed the "wickedest city on earth," Port Royal…
When we think of sunken cities, we think of Atlantis.
The legend is an enduring one.
The very name evokes instant visualizations of a grand undersea metropolis, complete with mythical humans who have adapted to live there.
But was Atlantis ever actually a real city? Well, no, sadly not.
Invented by Plato some 2300 years ago, he claimed that this utopian civilization, which allegedly existed 9000 years before his own era, was punished by the gods for becoming selfish, greedy and amoral, sinking forever into the ocean.
Which sea exactly, he never bothered to clarify.
While Atlantis remains an entirely fictional sunken world, the theme of cities which receive divine punishment or have curses is recurring throughout human civilization.
There are plenty of real sunken cities out there, cities that, through extraordinary misfortune, if not necessarily the wrath of the gods, can now only be found at the bottom of the sea.
When we think of sunken cities, we think of Atlantis.
The legend is an enduring one.
The very name evokes instant visualizations of a grand undersea metropolis, complete with mythical humans who have adapted to live there.
But was Atlantis ever actually a real city? Well, no, sadly not.
Invented by Plato some 2300 years ago, he claimed that this utopian civilization, which allegedly existed 9000 years before his own era, was punished by the gods for becoming selfish, greedy and amoral, sinking forever into the ocean.
Which sea exactly, he never bothered to clarify.
While Atlantis remains an entirely fictional sunken world, the theme of cities which receive divine punishment or have curses is recurring throughout human civilization.
There are plenty of real sunken cities out there, cities that, through extraordinary misfortune, if not necessarily the wrath of the gods, can now only be found at the bottom of the sea.
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