HOLLOW EARTH THEORY FOLKLORE

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Episode Transcript

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Is the earth hollow? Wow,that's the mystery we're going to be trying
to solve today. Edmund Haley isthe first name that pops up. Haley
noticed that the Earth's magnetic fields ratherunpredictable, and it's line shifting from year
to year. Haley, after fromwhom the famous comment is name, reckoned
that the Earth's hollowness is to blame. We're standing on an outermost shell with

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three more concentric shells within. Hebelieved it's the poles of these inner shells
that throw off the magnetic field.Oh and according to Haley, there's undoubtedly
life flourishing deep down there. Thisis the strange tale of the hollow Earth,
a theory that even Haley himself realizedwas a tad unbelievable. He wrote,
if I shall seem to advance anythingthat looks like extravagant or romantic the

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reader's desire to suspend his censure untilhe had considered the force and number of
the many arguments which concurred to makegood so new and so bold a supposition.
So he knew it was a littlebit far out there, didn't mean
so I didn't believe it. Haleywas actually working off of his friend Isaac
Newson's recently published masterpiece Principia, thework that forms a foundation for modern physical
science. According to a university professorwrote, what kind of curiosity in the

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structure the Hollow Earth and science?And so far as the publication of the
Principia marks the beginning of modern science, Haley's hollow theory can thus be treated
as the first prediction of the modernscientific era. The idea of a hollow
or earth was hardly a new one. It appears in folklore and the world
over, not to mention elsewhere inEurope in Haley's time, and German by
the name of Anthesius, for instance, published Mundo Subterraneous in sixteen sixty four,

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in which he claimed the earth containsa central fire kind of true though,
and vast underground lakes and lava chambersat the north poles of gaping vortex.
It sucks water down to the centralfire where it's He didn't expelled out
the pole. Kircher had a lookof a data the back of his claims,
but Haley sure did. As strangeas it seems, his theory wasn't
was wrong, but well reasoned giventhe scope of human knowledge at that time,

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Haley argued that the very creations andthe Earth's magnetic field couldn't be due
to some sort of magnetic body wanderingaround in rock, what with the rather
solid nature of rock, So theremust be unseen circles spinning around beneath us.
The Earth is represented by the outwardcircle, and the three inward circles
were made nearly proportionable to the magnitudesof the planets Venus, Mars, and

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Mercury. There's no danger of themrimming into each other, by the way,
because like with Saturn's concentric rings,they are held in place perfectly well
by gravity. Actually kind of remindsme of Dante's divine comedy idea too.
I wonder if he took it fromhere. Because magnetism is a strong enforced
in gravity. The inside of theshell must be lined with magnetic matter that
keeps the thing from crumbling and cavingin on itself. There though, is

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the problem cracks forming in the outershell with gravity sucking ocean water and debris
towards the center of the Earth.But Haley reckons and internal parts of this
bubble of rose should be replete withsuch saline and other type of particles.
In the time when science had notyet invested its self of religion, there
was the question of why exactly Godwould arrange things this way? What use

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could the empty spaces between these circleswithin our planet b For Haley, who
believe that all of the other planetsin our Solar system were inhabited, it
was just another place where God tostash additional life. Instead is where we
are pressed for room, commonly buildmany stories one over the other, and
thereby accommodate a much greater multitude ofinhabitants. I wonder this was not something

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that I read, but I wonderif Bigfoot and some of these other things
like Locknus wants Monster DoD they havesomething to do with the Hollow Earth?
Could these be creatures coming out ofthe center of the Earth. I wonder
if he would have think so?What have thought? So? I don't
know. It's an interesting theory.Nonetheless, Now others things believe that maybe

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ancient aliens lived in the hollow Earth. That's possible too. Again, as
I mentioned, it's been present invarious mythologies in folklore throughout history. However,
in modern times, the hollow hollowEarth theory gained more attention through several
proponents who poured forward again. Oneof the earlier proponents was Edmund Haley,

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but later in the nineteenth century anAmerican American officer named John Cleves Simes Symms
has often credited with popularizing the hollowEarth theory. Sime's proposed of the Earth
was hollow and had openings at thepolls, through one which one could enter.
Another figure was the hollow Oath withthe hollow Earth theory as Marshall B.

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Gardner. He wrote in a booktitled A Journey to the Earth's Interior
in nineteen thirteen. Gardner proposed avariation of the theory, suggesting that the
Earth is not completely hollow, butcontains vast interior spaces with their own ecosystems
and civilization. We're not going tocover it because I like to keep these
podcasts sure, but we'll cover itin the future. Agartha has one legendary

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city mentioned in certain esoteric and occulttraditions. According to the Myth of Garth,
as a subterranean kingdom located beneath theirsurface, inhabited by an advance and
enlightened civilization. Another one in TibetanBuddhist and Hindu traditions. In Shambala,
a mythical city, it is oftendescribed a hidden kingdom located deep within the
Himalayas. Or how about the Dwarfsand Norse mythology. Norse mythology includes references

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to dwarfs, who are known fortheir craftsmanship and mining abilities. Although not
directly connected to the hollow Earth theory, the idea of a subterranean realm inhabited
by beings is present in North mythology. Supportant note, folks, that these
stories and legends are often regarded asmiths of folklore, and they hold cultural
and symbolic significance rather than being supportedby a scientific evidence. Haley got Hailey

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tried, and he proposed some goodtheories again with the knowledge that he had
at that time, but nothing wasreally supported ever in the future, and
either was any of the other workthat we mentioned as well. But they
have captured the imagination of people throughouthistory and continued to inspire creative works in
literature, art, and entertainment.