Nathan Radke

So every new term, I ask my college students, hey, what conspiracies are you guys interested in?

Not necessarily what they believe in, but just topics they'd be curious to look into.

And it lets me tap into the zeitgeist because, of course, my students are smarter and hipper and faster and cooler and more chronically online than I am.

And this year, it's not the Illuminati, it's not the aliens.

This year, there's a high percentage of mentions having to do with the ocean.

And exactly as you say, you got your sea monsters, you got your Bermuda Triangle.

You got your Atlanteans.

Can't forget the Atlanteans.

And your Lemurians.

Lemurians?

Lemuria, it's another sunken, hidden continent, nonsense, Atlantis, that kind of stuff.

And the Titanic.

The students are all over these Titanic conspiracies.

I didn't even know that there were Titanic conspiracies.

Man, okay, we'll do that another day.

You presented enough evidence.

We'll stick a pin in that one and come back.

But it's not that surprising.

I mean, conspiracy theories tend to spread in mysterious areas, and the ocean's a giant mystery in our own backyard.

It's often said we know more about the surface of the moon than we know about the bottom of the ocean.