The Bizarre History of the Hollow Earth

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Far from being a modern, internet crackpot idea, hollow earth theory has walked a long and winding path, many centuries old. From the mythological pits of hell, to the pseudo-scientific theories of the enlightenment, right through to modern science fiction, founding philosophies of utopian cults and even tenuous links with the Nazis, the proponents have been many and the theories varied, though whether or not they were ever anything other than crackpot is a different question altogether. SOURCES Standish, David (2007) Hollow Earth. Da Capo Press, IN, USA. Bernard, Raymond (1963) The Hollow Earth. Fieldcrest Publishing Co., NY, USA. Griffin A., Duane (2004) Hollow & Habitable Within: Symmes’s Theory of Earth’s Internal Structure & Polar Geography. Physical Geography, Sep 2004. USA. Kollerstrom, Nicholas (1992) The Hollow World of Edmond Halley. Journal for the History of Astronomy, Volume 23 Issue 3, August 1992. USA Halley, Edmond (1692) An account of the cause of the change of the variation of the magnetical needle with an hypothesis of the structure of the internal parts of the Earth. Philosophical transac\xadtions, xvi (1692), 563-87. UK Alexandria Gazette (1818) Food For Philosophers. 13 Aug 1818, p.2. VA, USA Teed, Cyrus (1899) The Illumination of Koresh: Marvelous Experiences of the Great Alchemist Thirty Years Ago, at Utica, NY. Guiding Star, Chicago, USA. Goodricke-Clarke, Nicholas (2004) The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and their Influence on Nazi Ideology. Tauris Parke Paperbacks, NY, USA. ---------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	Far from being a modern internet-crack-part idea,
0:03.5	hollow earth theory has walked along and winding path many centuries-old.
0:08.8	From the mythological pits of hell,
0:11.2	to the pseudo-scientific theories of the Enlightenment,
0:14.0	right through to modern science fiction,
0:16.6	founding philosophies of utopian cults,
0:19.6	and even tenuous links with the Nazis,
0:22.2	the proponents have been many, and the theories varied.
0:27.5	They were not-they were ever anything other than
0:30.4	Crack-part is a different question altogether.
0:34.2	This is Dark History's, where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:42.0	Hello and welcome to Dark History's Season 6 Episode 15.
0:46.2	I'm Ben as always, it's really good to be back on the mic.
0:49.2	This week we've got a really great episode,
0:51.6	and I don't think I have a lot to introduce at the start here.
0:55.0	I think we pretty much can go straight into it.
0:57.8	So yeah, anyway, it's good to be with you, as always.
1:01.2	This week's episode is the bizarre history of the hollow earth.
1:10.2	In a mountain range, far to the east,
1:12.6	a stone stairway cut down through the rocky landscape,
1:16.0	carving apart for thousands of miles to a series of seven huge giant gates.
1:21.8	Each resting in a frame had by a large lock
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