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On February 5, 1992, a filmmaker and a NASA scientist announced they had found the Atlantis of the Sands using satellite radar. The archaeologist who ran the dig spent the next few years explaining that they had not. The fort and the sinkhole that swallowed it are still there.
A tall, bony, horse-headed trickster spirit said to haunt the forests and mountains of the Philippines, leading travelers astray at night, most persistently associated with Mount San Cristobal, the "Devil's Mountain" beside sacred Mount Banahaw.
For sixteen years, Japan erased this island from its own maps while a secret factory produced thousands of tons of poison gas there. Today it is overrun by tame rabbits, and the ruins still stand.
A Hindu Cambodian temple built in reinforced concrete on the desert road out of Cairo between 1907 and 1911, for the Belgian industrialist who was building Heliopolis around it. It stood empty from the 1950s, collected stories about a woman falling from the balcony, and was raided by police in 1997.
Ali Pasha ruled Epirus from Ioannina for four decades and was killed in January 1822 in a monastery on the island in Lake Pamvotida, where he had taken refuge from the Sultan's troops. The fortune he was said to have hidden before his fall has been searched for ever since. An Italian company dug the area for five years from 1913 and found nothing.
