{"id":726,"date":"2010-02-21T08:10:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T08:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/appalachiannew\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:22:08","slug":"appalachiannew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/appalachiannew\/","title":{"rendered":"Appalachians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mary-sutherland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27068\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mary-sutherland.jpg\" alt=\"mary sutherland\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An<\/strong><strong> Appalachian<\/strong> location for Atlantis is one of the many bizarre suggestions to emanate from the USA. A website<sup>(a)<\/sup> run by Brad and Mary Sutherland not only claims that Atlantis was in Kentucky, but as a bonus, Solomon\u2019s Mines are to be found there too. The Sutherlands have attempted to give their \u2018theory\u2019 a veneer of credibility by adding a copy of a 17<sup>th<\/sup> century map of the Americas by Sanson, speculatively entitled \u2018Island of Atlantis\u2019 \u2013 a view in vogue at that time. They also include a reference to the Phaistos Disk and a number of images of unusual rock formations. In short, they really offer nothing to link Atlantis with Kentucky. Sites like this, which are all too common and give serious Atlantis researchers a bad name. Sutherland\u2019s ramblings<sup>(b)<\/sup> also extends to UFOs and Martians as well as Lemurians living on Mt. Shastra!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190513102453\/https:\/\/www.burlingtonnews.net\/jscott.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190513102453\/https:\/\/www.burlingtonnews.net\/jscott.html<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livinginthelightms.com\/lemurian5.html\">https:\/\/www.livinginthelightms.com\/lemurian5.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Appalachian location for Atlantis is one of the many bizarre suggestions to emanate from the USA. A website(a) run by Brad and Mary Sutherland not only claims that Atlantis was in Kentucky, but as a bonus, Solomon\u2019s Mines are to be found there too. The Sutherlands have attempted to give their \u2018theory\u2019 a veneer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6188,2259,39,3079,3989,210],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-appalacians","tag-atlantis","tag-kentucky","tag-mary-sutherland","tag-mt-shastra","tag-phaistos-disk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65336,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/65336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}