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The Hollow Earth

from <Qocheedy Daiin> by The Far Stairs

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Edmond Halley, in 1692, put forth the idea that Earth consists of a hollow shell about 800 km. (500 mi.) thick, with two inner concentric shells and an innermost core, about the diameters of the planets Venus, Mars, and Mercury. Atmospheres separate these shells, and each shell has its own magnetic poles. The spheres rotate at different speeds. Halley proposed this scheme in order to explain anomalous compass readings. He envisaged the atmosphere inside as luminous (and possibly inhabited), and speculated that escaping gas caused the Aurora Borealis.

In 1818, John Cleves Symmes, Jr., proposed making an expedition to the North Pole to find an entrance to the Earth's interior. President John Quincy Adams indicated he would approve of this, but he left office before it could occur. The new President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, halted the attempt.

The spiritualist writer Walburga, Lady Paget, in her book Colloquies with an unseen friend (1907), mentions the Hollow Earth theory. She claims that cities exist beneath the desert, and that the descendants of Atlantis moved there. She further claims that an entrance will be discovered to this subterranean kingdom in the 21st Century.

George Papashvily, in his book Anything Can Happen (1940), claims that there was a discovery in the Caucasus mountains of a cavern containing giant human skeletons “with heads as big as bushel baskets” and also of an ancient tunnel nearby which led down into the inside of the Earth. According to Papashvily, one man who entered the tunnel never returned to the surface.

Other writers of the 20th Century have proposed that “ascended masters” of esoteric wisdom inhabit subterranean caverns in the Earth. Antarctica, the North Pole, Tibet, Peru, and Mount Shasta in California, USA, have all had their advocates as the locations of entrances to a subterranean realm referred to as Agartha, with some even advancing the hypothesis that UFOs have their homeland in these places.

The writer Lobsang Rampa, in his book The Cave of the Ancients, writes that an underground chamber system exists beneath the Himalayas of Tibet, and is filled with ancient machinery, records, and treasures. Michael Grumley, a cryptozoologist, has linked Bigfoot and other hominid cryptids to ancient tunnel systems underground. According to the “ancient astronaut” writer Peter Kolosimo, a robot was seen entering a subterranean tunnel below a Monastery in Mongolia; he also claimed lights were seen from underground in Azerbaijan.

The Hollow Earth, a book allegedly by a “Dr. Raymond Bernard” which appeared in 1964, describes UFOs coming from inside the earth. “Bernard” argues that the inhabitants of Atlantis took refuge in the Earth's interior before the city was destroyed. It was Atlanteans who piloted the flying machines known in ancient India as vimanas and in the modern world as flying saucers. After the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he claims, the Atlanteans became concerned that radioactive air might flow into the world's interior, and some emerged in their flying saucers in an act of self-defense.

The pages of the science-fiction pulp magazine Amazing Stories promoted one such idea, from 1945 to 1949, as “the Shaver Mystery.” The magazine's editor, Ray Palmer, ran a series of stories by Richard Sharpe Shaver supposedly claimed as factual, though presented in the context of fiction. Shaver claimed that a superior pre-historic race had built a honeycomb of caves in the Earth, and that their degenerate descendants, known as “Dero,” live there still, using the fantastic machines abandoned by the ancient races to torment those of us living on the surface. As one characteristic of this torment, Shaver described "voices" that purportedly came from no explainable source. Thousands of readers wrote to affirm that they, too, had heard the fiendish voices from inside the Earth.

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from <Qocheedy Daiin>, released February 9, 1944

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