The flood myths aren't just stories. Paleohydrology now confirms what oral traditions have preserved for millennia: catastrophic flooding events reshaped coastlines and landscapes worldwide during a concentrated window of geologic time. These weren't isolated incidents. Over a span of three to four thousand years, rapid sea level rise, extreme precipitation events, direct ice sheet collapse, and massive tsunamis repeatedly struck different regions across the globe. The evidence is written into the geology itself. Coastal landforms bear the signature of tsunami impacts far larger than anything in recorded history. When you examine the stratigraphic record alongside the mythological record, the correlation becomes difficult to ignore. The question isn't whether these floods happened. The question is how many human populations experienced them, remembered them, and passed those memories forward through generations.