“The flat earthers are obviously wrong- the world is circular and it’s hollow.”
For centuries there have been theories surrounding the shape of earth. For a long time people believed it to be flat, some people still do. But this theory relates to the millions of people who believe that there is a whole other world beneath our own.
The godfather of the hollow earth movement was a 17th century scientist named Edmund Halley. Halley proposed that the earth was hollow and the outermost crust is around 500 miles thick with rings beneath it. His idea was that the earth kind of resembled a dartboard when dissected. The theory comes from the irregular readings coming from the north and south poles and concluded that this was the inner world interfering with earth’s magnetism.
This theory simmered in people’s minds for a century or two, a massive update only came when a solider and scholar named John Cleves Symmes Jr. proposed that there were several entrances to hollow earth.
In 1818 Symes wrote: “I declare the earth is hollow, and habitable within; containing a number of solid concentric spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees; I pledge my life in support of this truth, and am ready to explore the hollow, if the world will support and aid me in the undertaking.”
Thousands of theorists commonly discuss this theory as what is commonly one of the “greatest ever secrets” on internet forums. On YouTube, videos claim that the satellite images on Google Earth have been altered to cover up the existence of the holes, while other videos claim the holes are there for all to see.
Ancient Greeks, Tibetan Buddhists and Christians all located their iterations of hell in caverns under the mantle. Pilgrims used to journey to Station Island off the coast of Co Donegal where they believed there existed an entrance to Purgatory, while the old legends of Mexico describe a mountain cave near Ojinago inhabited by devilish creatures from “the way-down-deeps”.
But still, in the modern world people grasp at the theory that there is a world beneath our own.
Rodney M Cluff was so obsessed with this theory that, in 1981, he flew his wife and five children from New Mexico to start a new life in Alaska. “I thought, ‘Why don’t we see if we can find the way to the Hollow Earth?’
In Alaska Cluff tried to lead an expedition to Hollow Earth. In an article with the Telegraph he said: “We saw a sign, at one point, saying ‘This Is A Private Road: Don’t Go Any Further’. So we didn’t go any further.”
His expedition failed.
Cluff, for his part, tried to reach the Hollow Earth again in 2003 with a man named Steve Currey.
Before the voyage, Cluff and Currey chartered a plane to fly over the pole to locate the opening. Unfortunately, just before they were about to set off on their carefully planned expedition, Currey died.
When another key member of the original expedition team died in an aeroplane crash, Cluff began to wonder if mysterious powers were manoeuvring against them.
“There seems to be some force that’s trying to stop this happening,” he says. “I think it’s the international bankers. They don’t want the Inner Earth people messing around with their slaves, here on the outer world.”
Dallas Thompson was one of the most active hollow earth theorists known, he was part of multiple online forums and appeared on both radio and television interviews discussing the hollow earth theory. He was extremely active, right up until he disappeared.
His final posting in his Yahoo Group page had been on January 11 2003. Then, he had vanished. Hollow Earth theory enthusiasts, writing in the chat forum, couldn’t help but speculate. “Maybe there is something someone did not want him to find,” said one.
Maybe Thompson is in hiding. Maybe government forces or evil bankers made him disappear, terrified of the world-changing truths he was about to unleash. Maybe he did journey to Hollow Earth, and is now prancing joyfully with the dinosaurs, and the germans, living in a pollution-free paradise with an abundance of food that will sustain him for however many years it takes for the rest of the population to kill off the planet.
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