We have collected many messages, testimonies, legends, beliefs, which say that our Earth is hollow and there is a "living world" inside it. Many authors have argued this, and we treat their arguments with the same attention as we meet any other "heresy" or, on the contrary, the conclusions of scientific orthodoxies. However, we must admit that we are much less interested in evidence than the antiquity of this kind of views on our planet, their recurrence in different periods of human development, and the phenomena with which the concept of a hollow Earth is associated.
• Plato is considered the first theoretician of the hollow Earth. This idea was put forward by a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Leonard Euler, who argued that the Earth is hollow and there is another sun inside it. The idea of a hollow earth was defended by the English Astronomer Royal Edmund Halley, who suggested that the leakage of the Earth's inner atmosphere was the cause of the northern lights.
The mystics of Tibet still believe that underground there are legendary Shambhala and Agharti - "mystical centers of the sacred tradition", which F. Ossendovsky mentions in the book "Both animals, people and gods". The traditional location of Agharti, where the keepers of the tradition live, is Tibet or the Himalayas. There are legends about underground passages that connect Agharti to the outside world. Ossendovsky and N. Roerich wrote about underground and aerial vehicles of the inhabitants of Agartha.
Nowadays, the Internet is "littered" with videos in which some researchers categorically assert the existence of another biological species inside the Earth - reptilian humanoids !? In addition, it is hypothesized that earthquakes that are increasingly occurring on our planet are artificial.
According to one version, besides us, there is another civilization on the planet - its habitat - the depths of the Earth. Allegedly, the Earth is not a ball, but a sphere, hollow inside, into which it is possible to get inside through the entrances located at the North and South Poles or through numerous tunnels, the network of which covers the entire Earth, including the ocean floor. The older and deeper the tunnels (there are tunnels whose age is estimated at millions of years), the more perfect they are in design, under Malta there are vertical incredibly smooth tunnels lined with polished obsidian stone. NASA specialists allegedly discovered underground cities and a network of galleries in places such as Altai, Ural, Tien Shan, Tibet, Sahara, South America. The tunnels are laid to Antarctica and connect to one of the main tunnels leading to the center of the Earth !?
This kind of information is questionable. At the same time, is it possible to consider the photographs of the North Pole taken in 1968 by the American spacecraft ESSA-7, which show a huge black hole in the North Pole region, as genuine? And what is a giant funnel-like hole extending into Antarctica between the American base, the South Pole, and Russia's Vostok base at approximately 84.4 ° S and 39 ° E?
• Are there or were human beings or other beings under the surface of our planet, possibly associated with significant depths? Many of the ancient civilizations were based on the idea that such creatures actually lived underground, being the keepers of treasures and the greatest secrets, which only a sorcerer with a magical gift could give them.
Initiation into the mystery meant that the candidate had to go down to the treasury, located deep underground, and face underground inhabitants there, which are as monstrous as the most terrible creatures in H. Lovecraft's novel. Naturally, the meeting with such monsters was not in vain: people either went crazy, or became prophets (sometimes both happened to them).
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The creatures that inhabited the underworld, for example Tartarus or Hades, were presented as a mixture of the souls of the dead and the spirits of the elements, the world of which had many points of contact with life on the earth's surface. If you believe at least some ancient myths and legends, there was once a fairly intense communication between the lower and upper worlds, so that people could move from one to another.
Here it will be appropriate, for example, to recall one old Irish legend, which claimed that sometime in ancient times between the Miles (the ancient name of the Irish), on the one hand, and the local Tuatha de Danan people, who allegedly possessed the magical art, with on the other, there was a struggle for ownership of the country. In the end, it was divided between them, and the victorious Miletus took the upper half for themselves, expelling an older people into a country that was underground. There, the latter united with the dwarfs and in this guise appear before all generations of the Irish.
In world folklore, descent into the "underground storerooms", as well as encounters with creatures from the bowels of the earth, are familiar subjects. Every time we seek evidence to support this, we come across the greatest and most closely hidden archaeological secret, namely the existence of a vast, inexplicable ramified system of tunnels, partly artificial and partly natural, beneath the surface of much of our planet.
Throughout Britain and Ireland, one encounters legends, stories and relics associated with underground paths that connect ancient sacred sites in every region of these countries. Baring-Gould's book Mountain Castles and Cave Buildings in Europe contains startling information about the ramified structure of caves and tunnels under the surface of France and several other countries. In troubled times, Europeans sought refuge underground.
For what purpose were such shelters created? Their original mystical goal was somehow connected with the spell of spirits or creatures that lived underground in the so-called "nether world". Harold Bailey's The Earliest England (1919) contains information received from the first travelers through the great tunnels passing under a large part of the whole of Africa, including the tunnel under the Kaoma River. The underground travelers spoke of this last as follows: "It is so long that it took the caravan from sunrise to noon to pass it entirely."
1976, July - there was a message about an expedition, funded by the military department and going to South America, to the Andes, with a double purpose: on the one hand, to explore the riddle of "technically impossible" ancient stone cities high in the mountains and, on the other, to explore an extensive network mysterious tunnels that are said to run under the entire Andes mountain range.
If we wanted to prove the existence of the animal world under our own, it would not be difficult for us to point out the "entrances" to the underworld, and at the same time we would not have a lack of evidence of past contacts between people and underground inhabitants.
It was in order to affirm the ancient beliefs about the hollow earth that William Reid wrote his book "Ghost Poles" in 1906. At the very beginning of the book, he said: "I am sure that the Earth is not only hollow, but that all or almost all of the researchers spent a lot of time behind the last line of the Earth, thereby looking into its interior." Each of the poles, as Reed tried to prove, has a large hole into which all polar explorers are involuntarily drawn. Many of them, including Peary, Franklin, Nansen and Hull, penetrated quite deep into the bowels of the underworld, and Reed found a lot of evidence of this in their notes, which confirms, in his opinion, the theory put forward by him.
For example, take their reports on the warming of the atmosphere as it approaches the pole, on the polar territories covered with greenery and teeming with animals, on trees and vegetation floating far from the known areas of their growth. These messages are compared by the author of the book with cases of incorrect behavior of the magnetic compass needle and with the facts of the aurora observed in these regions (in his opinion, it was a reflection of light coming from the earth's interior). All these phenomena, Reed believed, prove the existence of the inner world of the Earth.
Authors of later times also, and with no less enthusiasm, tried to assure us of the truth of this version. Much has been written, in particular about Admiral Byrd's bizarre aerial expedition to Antarctica, during which on January 13, 1956, radio announced that the expedition had penetrated an area 2,300 miles beyond the South Pole. After the second flight, the admiral made a cryptic statement: “I would like,” he said, “to see the land beyond the (North) Pole. This land is the center of what is called the Great Unknown."
Raymond Palmer, the editor of the American magazine "Flying Saucers", worked hard to advance the theory of a hollow Earth, showing that its inner sphere is a much more likely source of mysterious glow and UFOs than space. The patriarch of "ufology" Brinsley Lepoer Tranch also relatively recently became an adherent of this theory, as evidenced by his book "Mystery of the Ages: UFOs from Under the Ground".
In it, he painted an eerie picture, giving vent to a kind of artistic paranoia. The author suggested that many of the phenomenal phenomena that we have to deal with owe their origin to the underworld, and hints at the evidence he has that the underground inhabitants may already be busy preparing a military operation against the terrestrial world.
There is much of general interest in the hollow earth theory, but in our age, the age of satellites, we cannot underestimate the power of military secrets and we have no doubt that much has been removed from the official records of Admiral Byrd's expedition. Seriously speaking, phenomenalists are convinced that there is a certain relationship between the formation of cracks in the earth's crust and the appearance of monsters, phantoms and all kinds of mysterious lights.
Loch Ness, by the way, is located on a geological rift running through Scotland, and the Bolinas Swamp monster in California lives just on the fault line running north of San Francisco (another monster lives in the same area - the hairy Bigfoot ).
Flying Saucer Review has already published several articles that indicate the attractiveness of geological fault areas for UFOs. It seems important to us that this accumulation of phantoms around the gorges and caves, these traditional gates to the underworld (maybe they are really needed for passages in both directions). If we assume, as so many crazy and great people did before us, that the underworld has its own life, sometimes intersecting with the terrestrial one, then a number of anomalous phenomena will immediately become much clearer.
And for those who are too timid to admit the existence of a hollow Earth, we will give a reasonable answer given by William Reed to his own question: "What evidence do we have that the Earth is not hollow?" Here is what he replied: “We have no evidence - neither direct nor indirect. On the contrary, everything indicates that the Earth is hollow."
To say that living beings can dwell below the earth's surface means simply breaking into open doors. The mole is an underground inhabitant, like the worms that it feeds on. The question is what living beings and how deep can sink below the surface of the Earth. And this depends on the conditions existing in different places of the globe, at different depths.
For now, let's leave aside the "darkness of low truths" and consider the legends associated with the underworld. They arose long ago and quite naturally. There are, of course, many underground chambers below the earth's surface, connected by long passages and corridors. Such natural voids in the earth's interior are usually referred to as caves. Their formation is due to the fact that water, seeping from the surface (including along the planes of geological cracks and faults), erodes and dissolves some rocks - limestone, dolomite, gypsum - and slowly cuts, or rather, washes its way.
The longest of the studied caves to date is Mammoth Cave in Kentucky (America). It has (according to 1978 data) a system of halls, galleries and passages (taking into account only those on the map) with a total length of 181.44 miles (about 300 km). The deepest cave (more than 1300 meters) is located in the Pyrenees, near the border of France and Spain. The size of the underground halls can be judged by the fact that in Spain, near Malaga, a stalactite was found - a natural stone "icicle" hanging from the ceiling, up to 60 meters long, and in France a stalagmite is known - a drip formation growing on the floor of a cave - about 30 meters high.
The legends about giant monsters that lived in such caves are also not devoid of historical basis. Many, especially the predatory inhabitants of the caves, were characterized by gigantism: the cave lion and cave bear were much larger than their terrestrial relatives. Now they are completely extinct, but our ancient ancestors could meet with them and preserve dark memories not only in legends, but also in genetic memory.
So, a very small, inexperienced and trusting kitten is frightened by the smell of a dog, and a city dog, living quite well, is horrified, accidentally bumping into a wolf's trail during some country trips with its owners.
Nowadays, a lot of living beings live in caves, temporarily or permanently: people (in particular, cave explorers - speleologists), birds, bats, reptiles, amphibians, fish, arthropods and others. Permanent underground inhabitants are characterized by the absence of pigmentation and almost complete loss of vision.
There is a special science about caves - speleology, which so far, more than any other, relies on the truly heroic enthusiasm of its workers. A speleologist must be a climber, a scuba diver, a biologist and a geologist, and have a lot of absolutely necessary knowledge and personal qualities. Even in our time, exploring caves is associated with enormous risks. What can we say about the ancient enthusiasts who left for this underground world and did not always return back?
How both the size and the interior of the underground palaces must have amazed the imagination of people who fell into these depths at the dawn of civilization! By the way, it should be recalled that it was the caves that were the first human habitation.
Artificial underground galleries and halls are most often associated with the extraction of minerals, and in particular building stone (for example, the famous Odessa catacombs). Since the times of the Egyptian pharaohs and the ancient Greeks, underground corridors began to be laid along which it was possible to pass from one room to another, or, having deceived the enemy besieging a castle or city, get out of the ground in its deep rear and suddenly stab in the back.
Faced somewhere in the Andes or in Southeast Asia with grandiose temples, palaces, pyramids, built from giant blocks or carved into monolithic rocks, one can reasonably assume the presence of quite long underground passages around them.
The idea of the gigantic wealth hidden in the caves is also not without foundation. First, about the treasures hidden by people. Of course, it is much safer to hide chests with looted or - much less often - earned treasures not in the attic, not in the wall of a house that can burn down or be destroyed, and not even in the basement, where robbers can also climb, but in a hidden one, known only to the owner a little room underground.
However, the earth's interior conceals other, natural treasures. After all, it is from the ground that for almost three millennia man has been extracting many minerals. Punching with great difficulty a mine or an adit, say, to a gold mine?
The beauty of the underground rooms is truly amazing. The Novo-Athos cave near Sukhumi is specially equipped for visiting excursionists. And even though all her fabulous jewelry is formed by simple calcite, they are unforgettable.
It should be recalled here that it is in the land that most of the peoples of the world lower their dead, believing in their possible afterlife. Here are the origins of legends about the underground "kingdoms of spirits", including about hell with its braziers and devils. After all, it was from the ground that lava splashed out and red-hot ash flew, covering entire cities. Who, if not the devil, can manage such an "economy"?
J. Michell