The Day the World Froze and the Flood Stories Were Born

About 12,800 years ago, something went wrong with the planet.
Temperatures crashed. Ice came roaring back. Big animals died out.
Humans were hanging on by their fingernails.

We call this climate shock the Younger Dryas.

But here’s the problem. That same window of time lines up eerily well with flood stories from all over the world. Noah. Gilgamesh. Manu. Islands sinking. Survivors clinging to boats, mountains, or floating debris. Different cultures. Different gods. Same core story.

Tonight on WTF, we ask a simple and uncomfortable question.

Did a comet hit the ice sheets, trigger a thousand year winter, and become the Great Flood our ancestors refused to forget?

We break down the science, the myths, the impact debate, and why the end of the Ice Age may also be the beginning of human history as we know it.

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