# Has "In Search of..." et al ever found anything? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-in-search-of-et-al-ever-found-anything/831589 "2019-03-27T01:42:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-in-search-of-et-al-ever-found-anything/831589/41 "2019-04-03T04:09:12Z")
> [@HyacinthBucket](#): > > One of my pet peeves. > > All the “Searching For Atlantis”-genre programs that we seem to have been inundated with in the last 20 years drives me absolutely NUTS. The connection between Atlantis and Thera was suggested 50 years ago, soon after Dr Marinatos started excavating the Akrotiri site. And the excellent book **Atlantis** by Galanapoulos and Bacon published in 1969 did a very good job of connecting the dots with Plato’s original writings. > > Why do all these shows and “investigators” spend their money and waste their time looking for something that was found 50 years ago? There has been new geological evidence found recently but that only added additional backup to the evidence of where and what Atlantis actually was and what happened to it, not to mention that it’s the only place where ruins showing a highly civilzed culture like Plato described actually have been found. > > There’s nothing mysterious about it. And the truth behind the legend is a lot more fascinating than all the turgid fiction espoused by so many bogus “Search Of” or “Finding…” or “Mystery of…” programs that keep looking for something that was right in plain sight all the time. actually didn’t everyone in rationale science deduce it was just a a mythological version of when the real version of the island of Minos was killed off due to the either volcano or earth quake ? (I forget which) ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-in-search-of-et-al-ever-found-anything/831589/42 "2019-04-03T14:56:03Z")
Just for fun, I looked up the episode list for the original “In Search Of” series. They did an [episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of..._(TV_series)) on a Nazi hunter searching South America in 1979 (S3E18). > [@](#): > > Mengele is believed to have died only six days after this episode was broadcast, having drowned as a result of a stroke while swimming. Oh, so close. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-in-search-of-et-al-ever-found-anything/831589/43 "2019-04-03T15:18:06Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Just for fun, I looked up the episode list for the original “In Search Of” series. > They did an [episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of..._(TV_series)) on a Nazi hunter searching South America in 1979 (S3E18). > > Oh, so close. Missed it by \*that \*much! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-in-search-of-et-al-ever-found-anything/831589/44 "2019-04-03T15:27:17Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > BTW, there never was a Noah or an ark or a worldwide flood and nothing ever landed on the top of Mt. Ararat either. Well, birds, rain, snow…but no Ark. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-in-search-of-et-al-ever-found-anything/831589/45 "2019-04-03T15:33:43Z")
They found [love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLN5LHO18dA). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-in-search-of-et-al-ever-found-anything/831589.md?page=2)