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EPISODE 47 | What Lies Beneath: The Hollow Earth (Big 'Uns 4)

Is our world hollow, possibly inhabited by evil descendants of the Yeti, or malevolent Detrimental Robots, or aliens, or dinosaurs, or Bigfoot, or Atlanteans, or Tarzan, or Neanderthal Batman? Maybe the Arctic has a giant hole leading into the interior, or is really Atlantis or Eden or Avalon or Mt. Meru or Hyperborea, or part of Yggdrasil or Irminsul, or the homeland of the Vedas. Or maybe the earth is actually expanding all the time. Or the Book of Genesis is really all about Mars. And on and on it goes as the pseudoscientific folks get all hot and bothered about what lies beneath our feet. 

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SECTIONS

1. 01:58 - The Hollow Earth Point Zero - early notions, Halley, Euler
2. 05:54 - The Symmesulation - John Cleves Symmes Jr., Symmes Holes, Jeremiah Reynolds inspires, early fiction, William Warren's Paradise Found, Etidorhpa
3. 11:43 - Fiction & Fact - Verne, Nequa, Pellucidar (special guest: Tarzan), Agharta (Shamballa lite?)
4. 16:28 - Szukalski & Zermatism (Protong & the Yetisyni)
5. 19:26 - Dero, Dero! The Shaver Mystery - Richard Shaver, the evil Dero, Mantong, Ray Palmer, an Amazing Stories scandal, the Hidden World, Atlantean rock books, Shaver Mystery Clubs crop up
6. 28:36 - Not Visitors, Roommates! - UFO & mountains, Raymond Bernard, Peter Kolosimo, Brinsley Le Poer Trench and a Martian Genesis
7. 33:48 - Facts Cut a Hole in Us - Chimborazo & a vertical deflection experiment, the Kola Superdeep Borehole, facts about the Earth's interior & structure; Rodney Cluff, a multi-dimensional interior
8. 41:02 - Growing Pains - the Expanding Earth Theory - Mantovani, continental drift, artist Neal Adams and Batman

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

LAPSUS LINGUAE: I say the Life Magazine article starts on page 134, but it actually starts on page 127. In the video version, I write the inter-dimensional hollow earth video only has Hungarian subtitles, but I found a copy without (see the playlist for that).

More Info:

• Hollow-Earth Theories: A List of References
• The Hollow Earth Theory Isn’t So Funny Anymore on Wired
• Tales of a Hollow Earth. Tracing the Legacy of John Cleves Symmes in Antarctic Exploration and Fiction, a research paper by Lester Ian Chaplow
• Euler and the Hollow Earth: Fact or Fiction? by Ed Sandifer
• Marshall B Gardner's patent US1096102A
• The Hollow Earth Theory: Our Inside Out Universe on Mysteries Unsolved
• Stanislav Szukalski: Zermatic on Kook Science Research Associates
• Behold!!! the Protong by Stanislav Szukalski
• List of Protong words with English translation
• Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski 
• FEAR DOWN BELOW: The Curious History of the Shaver Mystery
• The Hidden World Volume One: The Dero! The Tero! The Battle Between Good and Evil Underground 
• The Secret World
• Richard Shaver & the proto-language of Mantong
• Life Magazine, May 21, 1951 issue (article on science fiction begins page 127)
• What's This? A Shaver Revival? by Doug Skinner for Fate Magazine
• The mantong alphabet and sound symbolism
• Review of Mantong and Protong exhibition
• Inner Earth Is Teeming With Exotic Forms of Life on Smithsonian 
• World Top Secret: Our Earth IS Hollow - Rodney Cluff's website
• That awesome video WITHOUT Hungarian subtitles! 
• The earth is expanding and we don't know why on Science Frontiers Online
• The case against pangea - Neal Adams and the Expanding Earth Theory webpage plus links at the bottom

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