Is Our Earth Hollow Pt. 3

In 1864, in Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne describes an expedition into the Earth’s interior via the fictional Icelandic volcano Scartaris. They escape through another volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli.

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William Fairfield Warren, in his book Paradise Found–The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, (1885) believed that humanity originated on a continent in the Arctic called Hyperborea.

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According to Marshall Gardner, both the Eskimo and Mongolian peoples had come from the interior of the Earth through an entrance at the North pole. Marshall Gardner wrote A Journey to the Earth’s Interior in 1913. He claimed that there was a sun in the interior of the earth.

An early 20th-century proponent of hollow Earth, William Reed, wrote Phantom of the Poles in 1906.

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The explorer Ferdynand Ossendowski wrote a book in 1922 titled Beasts, Men and Gods. He said he was told that a subterranean kingdom existed inside the Earth known to Buddhists as Agharti.

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Mythology, Folklore and Legends

The concept of the Christian Hell, and the Jewish Sheol could very well have been referring to the inner earth. The idea of a subterranean realm is also mentioned in Tibetan Buddhist belief. According to one story from Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there is an ancient city called Shamballa which is located inside the Earth.

According to the Greeks, there were caverns under the surface which were entrances leading to the underworld.

In Celtic mythology there is a legend of a cave called “Cruachana an ancient cave from which according to legend, strange creatures would emerge. There are also stories of medieval knights and saints who went on pilgrimages to a cave located in Station Island, in Ireland, where they made journeys inside the Earth.

Cruachan

In Hindu myth, the underworld is referred to as Patala. In the Bengali version of the Hindu epic Ramayana, it tells how Rama and Lakshmana were taken by the king of the underworld Ahiravan, brother of the demon king Ravana. Later, they were rescued by Hanuman. The *Angami Naga *tribes of India claim that they originated from a land inside the Earth.

Natives of the Trobriand Islands(Papua New Guinea) believe that their ancestors had come from a subterranean land through a cavern hole called “Obukula”.

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Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands, 1918. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

Dante describes a hollow earth in his work Inferno, in which the fall of Lucifer from heaven caused an enormous funnel to appear in a previously solid and spherical earth, as well as an enormous mountain opposite it, “Purgatory”.

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There is also a legend about a tunnel in the *San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. *It is also the belief of the tribes of the *Iroquois *that their ancient ancestors emerged from the inner earth. The elders of the *Hopi *people believe that a Sipapu ( a hole in the floor of a Pueblo Indian kiva) entrance in the Grand Canyon exists which leads to the underworld.

Brazilian Indians, claim that their forefathers emerged from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the Earth. *Incan *ancestors supposedly came from caves located east of Cuzco, Peru.

Modern concept

16th to 18th centuries

The following lines from Act 3, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream,suggest that the idea was known in Europe 100 years before it took on a more scientific form:

HERMIA: ‘I’ll believe as soon / This whole earth may be bored and that the moon / May through the center creep and so displease / Her brother’s noontide with Antipodes.’

The notion was further popularized by Athanasius Kircher’s non-fiction Mundus Subterraneus (1665), which speculated that there is a “system of cavities and a channel of water connecting the poles”.

Edmond Halley in 1692[21] taught that the Earth might consist of a hollow shell about 800 km (500 mi) thick, two inner concentric shells and an innermost core. Halley believed this scheme explained anomalous compass readings. He envisaged the atmosphere inside as luminous and speculated that escaping gas caused the Aurora Borealis.

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Le Clerc Milfort in 1781 led a journey with hundreds of Muscogee Peoples (Creek) to a series of caverns near the Red River. According to Milfort the original Muscogee Peoples’ ancestors are believed to have emerged out to the surface.

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It is claimed that mathematician Leonhard Euler proposed a single-shell hollow Earth with a small sun (1,000 kilometres across) at the center, providing light and warmth for an inner-Earth civilization.

In 1818, John Cleves Symmes, Jr. suggested that the Earth had a hollow shell about 1,300 km (810 mi) thick, with openings about 2,300 km (1,400 mi)

Novelist Lobsang Rampa in his book The Cave of the Ancients said an underground chamber exists within and beneath the Himalayas, filled with ancient machinery, records and treasure.

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 A book by a Dr. Raymond Bernard, The Hollow Earth, which appeared in 1964, exemplifies the idea of UFOs coming from inside the Earth, and adds the idea that the Ring Nebula proves the existence of hollow worlds.

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The Hollow Earth by Raymond Bernard

The science fiction pulp magazine Amazing Stories promoted one such idea from 1945 to 1949 as “The Shaver Mystery“. The editor, Ray Palmer, ran a series of stories by Richard Sharpe Shaver, claiming that a superior pre-historic race existed within the Earth.

The writer David Hatcher Childress authored Lost Continents *and the Hollow Earth (1998) *defended the Hollow Earth idea based on alleged tunnel systems beneath South America and Central Asia.

We hope that we have given you enough information that may tickle your interests in the possibility that these various citations, sited from diverse timeframes and cultures, might open your mind to the possibility that, in truth, the earth is actually and factually HOLLOW.

Books on the Hollow Earth

The Missing Diary of Admiral Richard E Byrd by Admiral Richard E Byrd and Timothy G Beckley

Messages from the Hollow Earth by Diane Robbins

*The Smokey God or, a Voyage to the Inner Worlds * by Willis George Emerson

Agartha: The Earth’s Inner World. Paperback – by Mariana Stjerna

Paradise Found, or the Cradle of The Human Race at the North Pole, by William F. Warren.

Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations- Kindle Edition, by David Standish

Hollow Earth by David Standish

The Kingdom of Agarttha: A Journey Into the Hollow Earth by Marquis Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre and Joscelyn Godwin

The Book of Earths: Hollow Earth, Ancient Maps, Atlantis, and Other Theories (Forgotten Books),by Edna Kenton

The Hollow Earth by Raymond Bernard

Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery (1820), Seaborn Adam, ‎Symmes Cleves John · 2009

Etidorhpa, by John Uri Lloyd, 1895

Earth Dimensions
Diameter 7,917 miles

Hollow interior diameter 6,400 miles
Crust 800 miles thick

Total1600 miles (for both crusts on each side)

6400 miles (hollow interior) plus 1600 miles (both crusts) = 8000 miles

Total diameter of earth is 8000 miles (true diameter 7,917 miles)

Excerpts in this article taken from Wikipedia and other sites.

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