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Alright you hope everyone's been enjoying the very

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summary days we've been blessed with. I personally.

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Hate them, but that's just me. It's not

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that bad if you don't stay out long. The bee love it at least. And clearly,

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the rats love it. That wouldn't be an issue if we still

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had strings around. You should tear down that old scenario

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They've really taken it over. Monday day.

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Anyway, getting the under growth removed should help.

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I thought the new grounds was coming last

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week. The agency have been sending out candidates,

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but none them seem to want the job once they come out. Maybe

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It's the unit uniform. Well, that's part of

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what they're paid for, representing the estate to

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the public. They have to look present present

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but the leather apron. Protects their clothing.

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Your clothing. The apron seem

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hot. They're optional. They don't have to wear

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them if it's 90 degrees for

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what? 80? I don't know. Flexible.

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70 degrees. I think people just want to wear their own clothing. And in healthy when

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So in our last episode, I announced that we'd be thanking our new patrons here at

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the top of the show, and I read a little verse I wrote to honor them.

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his children. Are they twins? Well, they sound like twins. It's a boy

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show. You're curing a portion of the medieval Norwegian

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ballot, Sung by Ar

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Brexit. L is the name of a young girl

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who 1 day goes riding near the ancient

6:22

barrels or mounds associated with no or elves.

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There are probably over a hundred variations the

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song, but all of them end with Lit entering the

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mound where she is seduced by the Barr

6:36

Ko, the king of the mountain who gives her a magic drink causing her

6:41

to forget her life and the world above.

6:51

There are many similar ballots and countless folk

6:55

tales the similar plot lines don't work frequently with the genders reverse that

6:59

if a male seduced to linger in a

7:02

sub ferry realm, like, story of the night, Ton house or who

7:06

lives for many years in the underground pleasure

7:08

gardens, the famous bag or Mountain of Venus,

7:12

story mentioned along with similar tales in our Cave,

7:15

which is episode. Another we've discussed is the Welsh tale of

7:21

King Her, who's invited to a sub wedding by a

7:25

dwarf king and only returns to the surface hundreds of

7:28

years later in the form of a wandering spirit.

7:37

1, I've not mentioned was recorded as an

7:40

alleged first firsthand account, by Gerald of Wales in his late twelfth

7:45

century Comb, the itinerary through Wales,

7:50

Not explicitly a ferry story. It goes to

7:52

some lengths to describe an underground

7:56

civilization. Gerald presents it as a true story related

8:00

to him by a priest who as a boy was wandering along a river bank,

8:04

when he encounters 2 tiny men.

8:09

Who lead him off. First,

8:12

through a dark underground tunnel,

8:15

and then into a most attractive

8:18

country where there were lovely rivers

8:21

and delightful woodlands and plain.

8:26

It was rather dark because the sun did

8:28

not shine there. The days were all overcast as if by

8:33

clouds, and the knights were pitch black.

8:37

For there was no moon or stars.

8:41

The majority of the tale is to butt

8:43

describing the nature of their sub society

8:47

as a sort of un uninterrupted

8:49

superior version of our own. They never ate

8:52

meat or fish. They never give their word

8:56

for their hated lies more than anything they

8:59

could think of. Whenever they came back from the upper field,

9:04

they would speak contempt of our own ambitions

9:08

in and inconsistencies.

9:12

They had no wish for public warship,

9:15

and what they revered and admired or so

9:17

it seemed, was a plain, un var

9:21

truth. These sorts of details provided by Gerald of

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Wales in 11 91, establish a pattern to be followed over the

9:30

next 8 centuries. Utopian fantasies, imagining, and

9:35

ideal Earth within or

9:38

below our own. In the seventeenth century, another key element to

9:48

these narratives appeared a

9:51

geographic specificity. The entrance to this interior world would increasingly

9:57

be found at the ends of the earth,

9:59

usually in the far northern regions near the North

10:03

Pole or theoretically also antarctica, though, this was

10:07

further from the European imagination. The time.

10:12

Margaret Cave, the Duchess of Newcastle upon

10:16

offers the first instance of this. She was a poet, writer and play right

10:21

who also wrote on philosophy and scientific theories

10:25

for day. And she discussed with the many influential thinkers

10:29

passing through her ari democratic world,

10:34

Her 16 53 poem, the Fairy queen's kingdom

10:38

begins. The Fe queen's large kingdom got by birth.

10:44

It's in the circled center of the earth.

10:48

Where there are many springs and running streams,

10:52

whose waves to listen by the queen's bright

10:55

beams. 13 years later, she imagined different interior realm

11:01

in her prose fantasy, the blazing world,

11:05

a world populated not by fairies, but peculiar

11:09

animal human hybrids. 1 entered to, the north pole.

11:15

Her name was Heroin, el with her lover

11:18

is at sea in a small boat,

11:21

which pie the violent motion of the wind was carried

11:25

a swift as an arrow out of a

11:28

bell towards the north pole. And then Cave offers this as to the

11:33

boats peculiar trajectory into the inner world a

11:36

course followed into rather than over the Polar

11:39

region. Because the poles of the other world joining

11:43

to the poles of this. If anyone arrives to honor these poles,

11:48

he is either forced to return or to enter another world.

11:54

So that is a doughnut shaped earth war, this

11:59

idea of the polar regions as immense sink

12:02

holes forming a sort of tube within the

12:05

middle of the globe will appear again in later stories and books

12:09

of speculative science. The inhabitants of this interior world are just

12:16

as strangely imagined, the first encountered are seen

12:21

walking upon the ice, strange creatures in shaped like bears.

12:26

Only they were upright his men. And are soon heard to speak a strange

12:33

language, which art narrator eventually learns allowing her

12:36

to better describe a kingdom populated not only by bear men, but also

12:41

Say, human like apes and Foxes

12:45

parents, jack, spiders, l, fish and worms.

12:51

Our narrator is mistaken for visiting Goddess and

12:54

made emperor of this blazing world.

12:57

Each species over whom she rules this associated with

13:01

a different profession or area of learning, allowing cave to

13:05

use them to sat politicians, doctors, j and philosophers and so on,

13:11

along the way, offering her own theories and

13:15

insights on the science and society of our

13:18

world above. Over the next couple centuries, there appeared least

13:24

a half dozen novels describing

13:27

travels into an interior world.

13:30

Typically, these imagine the sub

13:33

civilization as utopia. Strategically highlighting the faults and fo of our

13:38

own. In 17 41, the Danish Norwegian writer, Ludwig

13:44

H, Neil K underground travels, described adventures on

13:48

an interior globe lit by a second sun.

13:53

Clean visits various lands within and encounters

13:57

philosophically inclined tree men is well as monkey

14:00

Zig 2 fashion wig similar to his own,

14:04

and then aided by gunpowder, which is unknown

14:07

in his world K establishes himself as a

14:10

king, but is driven back the surface when his

14:13

rule becomes tyra. While more famous for his memoir documenting his

14:19

Am exploits, Ja casa,

14:22

also wrote a 5 volume sub fantasy in

14:27

17 88 called casa.

14:31

It follows a brother and sister whose ship

14:34

is sucked into a mae in the North

14:36

Sea, then deposited in a world

14:40

by her dwarves, who sustained themselves by

14:45

mutual breastfeeding. And if that weren't bad enough, the brother

14:50

and sister who remained their 81 years and

14:52

up having children together.

14:57

In 18 eighties novel M prophecy,

15:01

American feminist writer, Mary Bradley Lane,

15:05

described world entered through an arctic portal 1

15:08

populated exclusively by women.

15:12

The progressive ideal of the fantasy is. However,

15:15

marred by Lane description of their artificial manner

15:18

of appropriation, which involves the unique elimination of

15:23

traits belonging into the darker races.

15:29

In 18 92, Irish American writer, William r

15:32

bradshaw in his... The goddess of at Va

15:35

barr, imagine a world also entered through the arctic.

15:38

The Goddess ruling in this kingdom with whom

15:41

the protagonist pi falls in love is en

15:44

ent in a central pant.

15:46

Sculpture out of the hill of green marble.

15:50

And command troops fine men

15:53

wearing metal wings moved by some powerful horse,

15:58

probably electricity. Others ride on immense began machines resembling

16:03

ostrich and there is also something

16:06

called the... Sacred locomotive.

16:12

The protagonist affair with a goddess leads to

16:15

civil war in which are explorer from our

16:18

world is victorious. Yet not only winds of Throne of,

16:22

but establishes highly successful trade relations between the

16:26

2 worlds. To win win.

16:32

Perhaps the strangest inner fantasy of the era,

16:35

published by an American writer, John Yuri Lloyd

16:39

in 18 95, is the novel called

16:44

Ed or at the end of the earth, the

16:47

strange history of a mysterious being and the

16:50

account of a remarkable journey.

16:55

The book strange is not simply a matter of the fantastic adventures described, but in how

17:01

its construct did in how Lloyd inject philosophical

17:04

and pseudo scientific essays into his adventure tale.

17:10

Did Aside from his career as a novel,

17:13

Lloyd worked as a pharmacist becoming a leading

17:16

advocate of what was called. Ec medicine.

17:20

His outstanding expertise in herbal and eth bot

17:24

at 1 point resulted in a commission by

17:27

the smithsonian to conduct a study of licorice

17:30

in the ottoman empire. Emboldened by his successes in these fields,

17:36

Lloyd went a bit off leash in at

17:38

Do, widely speculating in these long disc discourse

17:42

passages on geo physical matters on the origins

17:46

of volcanoes, geyser, gravity, the possibility of

17:51

interior sees, all these physical realities, which were simultaneously

17:56

spiritual to his understanding. And saul illustrated with charts and mechanical

18:01

drawings alongside more traditional figure of art that

18:04

anticipates the lure visions of the later pulp

18:08

illustrations. The tale is also presented with 3 narrative

18:13

levels. Lloyd is supposed to only be the editor

18:17

of a manuscript left by

18:19

1 Dr, who

18:23

records his conversations with a third person, a mysterious visitor

18:27

who is the 1 who relates the actual

18:29

tail of sub draining adventure.

18:32

And then jury as a mouthpiece for Lloyd

18:35

scientific speculations interrupts the visitors tale with sort of

18:40

tangent I've described. And to make things even stranger, the Mysterious,

18:46

this who is very mysterious is only identified

18:49

as... I and the man

18:52

who did it. In this story within the

18:56

story. It's the stranger interest in A

18:59

that prompts to visit from a group of hood members from a secret society

19:04

who to punish I reach of confidence,

19:08

sends him to a so underground.

19:12

They bring him to a Cave, Kentucky and

19:14

at the entrance turned over to another very strange figure

19:20

He was less than 5 feet in height.

19:23

His arms and legs were bare and his

19:25

skin, the color of light blue padding.

19:28

In the sunlight. His bull had extended in an unbroken plane

19:33

from crowned cheekbone, and the chu tip of an abort nose

19:38

without nostrils, formed a short projection near the center of

19:41

the level witch. Which represented continents.

19:45

There was no sem of an eye

19:48

for there were no sockets. Despite his blindness, this humanoid way sort of

19:56

cave fish is able to guide I am

20:00

through a series of cavern passages filled with

20:03

giant crystals and mushrooms.

20:06

He also guides a boat along a sub mediterranean river,

20:10

a trip with stops for various knowledge

20:14

viewing experiences, for instance, 1 chapter

20:18

entitled. How to see your own brain?

20:22

I am is educated in this process,

20:24

1 which involves ruling one's eyes upward, while,

20:30

concentrating very intently. It somehow works and his teacher suggests that

20:36

perfection of this technique 1 day. May it enable men to picture the figures

20:41

engraved. On the convolution

20:44

and at last to read the thoughts that are grave within the brains of others.

20:49

And then there's a rather dante

20:53

tableau, presenting something called...

20:56

The drunk goods then. Where I am sees

20:59

that not only drunk are con confined him

21:01

sort of prison men, but also those who over indulge any appetite,

21:08

1 inmate who apparently over ind his love

21:11

of olfactory sensation presents himself with... A no, so not.

21:17

That the pun figure to which it was attached was forced to walk with his nose,

21:21

high in the air to prevent the P

21:24

rubbing on the floor. For what it's worth at journeys end, they

21:29

encounter after dieting, not a goddess of love,

21:32

but I am guardian

21:35

angel turns out. Whose name reversed

21:38

happens to spell and a door book.

21:42

It's a very strange book. Around the same time,

21:50

another American healer an advocate of ec medicine

21:54

was building a commune in Florida based around

21:57

his spiritual notions and a hollow earth cosmology.

22:03

Cyrus tee, got a slow start on the

22:06

cult business. It took 25

22:09

years after his initial 69 vision for this

22:12

healer from upstate New York to start building

22:14

his new Jerusalem in Florida. 20 years to get any real traction at

22:19

all. That turn of good fortune Came when he

22:22

spoke at the National Association of mental science in Chicago

22:27

and allegedly healed a woman unable to walk.

22:30

At that point, he'd taken the name Par.

22:33

The hebrew rev version of his own name cyrus, and that the name comes from the

22:37

old person word for son was by no

22:40

means lost on ted. The lean years before Became the astronomical

22:47

center of the universe, and involved his wife leaving him with their

22:51

son when he first began to attract members,

22:54

exclusively female members. Citizens of Uti were suspicious and there was

23:00

a lawsuit by the children of a Syracuse

23:02

woman who'd donated their inheritance to this second

23:06

priced. After the success of the mental science convention,

23:10

he moved his newly 1 followers to a

23:13

posh mansion in Chicago Washington Heights neighborhood,

23:17

eventually establishing additional study groups in Baltimore, Portland

23:20

in San Francisco, a couple of towns in

23:23

Massachusetts and elsewhere. So what were they study? What were his

23:29

teaching? Well, Of course, the earth was hollow,

23:32

that's a given. And instead of living on

23:35

the convex exterior as commonly presumed, we actually live on

23:39

the con cave interior and look inward to

23:42

a central sun. This outer sphere was 1 of 17,

23:48

a number of later reduced. And between the spheres were layers of tin

23:52

iron, zinc and copper, the rotation of which

23:55

created an electric charge powering that sun, which

23:59

works as a great volta pile.

24:03

He'd claimed these insights came through his scientific

24:08

research of a sword to field that he

24:11

dubbed electro a.

24:16

Unsurprisingly, this also involved visionary experiences.

24:20

According to T own Gibberish

24:23

account later published in the group's periodic, the flaming sword.

24:27

This began 1 October night in 18 69,

24:31

while he was at work in his laboratory, so the story goes near midnight, and the

24:36

would be A noted a pre

24:39

in 1 of his re reports

24:43

My new molecules of gold and dust.

24:46

I had succeeded in transforming matter of 1 kind

24:50

to a motto of another kind.

24:54

The discovery sent to quite a state, a

24:58

gently oscillating ocean of magnetic and

25:02

spiritual ecstasy. During which he hears the voice telling him,

25:07

He is God inca or God's masculine aspect,

25:11

anyway, the other half, the divine mother then

25:14

appears to him. Gradually at first as...

25:18

Var coloring, streaming toward a pho

25:22

center, then taking shape a beautiful face defined,

25:28

blonde tres and a Gold and purple colored

25:32

room. Her feet rested

25:34

upon a sail rec crescent. In her hand and resting upon this crescent.

25:40

Was mercury, cad.

25:44

God's. Feminine aspect assumes an important role in

25:47

Tea religion or cor get it a Christianity.

25:52

Fact that's often cited to explain the prep

25:54

of women among his following, husbands or single men might hesitate to join

26:00

as ce was strongly encouraged and was mandatory

26:04

within the group's upper echelon. In 18 94,

26:12

T was visited by a mystical inclined German

26:15

immigrant Gust Dom Ko, who 10 years earlier had built a solitary

26:21

retreat on Est sterile island near Fort Myers.

26:25

For nearly 10 years, he and his family

26:27

have been waiting there for the coming of the Messiah who Don Ko learned after stumbling

26:32

on a corruption pamphlet happened to be Cyrus tee.

26:38

The German immigrant was at first so impressed

26:41

upon meeting Crash that he donated his house

26:44

and the surrounding 320 acres to the cause.

26:49

Then a few years, he'd scattered flock had

26:51

all relocated to Ast to build what they

26:54

called the corruption unity.

26:57

A settlement of log cabins and a more

27:00

refined house call the planetary court

27:03

from which council of women known as the

27:06

7 planetary sisters rule

27:09

with crush natural as their central sun.

27:13

As each arriving member turned over their savings,

27:16

roads were cut and more buildings erected, power

27:19

plant a bakery, a general store print shop and a world

27:24

college of life in which was displayed a

27:27

large model globe or globes 1 within the

27:29

other. On the road to the unity,

27:33

an attention getting billboard illustrated with these globes

27:37

declared in bold caps. We live

27:41

on the inside Eventually, the commune house 250

27:47

corrections with particularly robust growth between 19 o

27:50

3 and 19 o 8. The year t

27:54

died. Oh, it's never good when a messiah dies,

27:58

but T had prepared his followers risk with

28:00

teachings about a different kind of passing,

28:05

a theo crisis he called it a word

28:07

of his own coin skin, which he described

28:10

as interrupt

28:12

dissolution without decay of the flesh

28:16

of a physical body by electromagnetic

28:19

combustion Meaning what? Well, who knows, but it seemed

28:23

as if something something unexpected might happen. So

28:29

Despite the absence of all traditional signs of

28:31

life, the body was not buried.

28:35

Kept vigil for nearly a week waiting for

28:37

the rejuvenate leader to s his skin like a snake and rise

28:43

anew. And as this softening process promised to be

28:46

messy the corpse was wisely

28:49

placed in a cloth foot tub. On a 20 24 to public television broadcast,

28:56

Bill Grace, a descendant of the corrections

29:00

relayed to family story of those days.

29:04

When he died, my grandmother told me that the they gathered the children up and brought

29:08

them into the room where the body was,

29:11

and the body was already molding, and they told the children that that was

29:14

the new life coming out and t that

29:17

he would soon be resurrected, which, of course, he wasn't.

29:23

No. He wasn't. The coroner was eventually called

29:26

and tee berry. Slow decline began and in 19 61 when

29:32

the last member passed, the Corruption unity property became

29:37

Corruption state Park with many of the old buildings and artifacts,

29:41

including the model globe within a globe still

29:43

on display. Paranormal,

29:47

quite naturally, consider the property

29:50

haunted. We've been talking about the hollow Earth as

29:58

imagined by fiction writers and cult leading fantasies.

30:02

But now I want to step backward in

30:04

time a bit to provide a more hard

30:07

headed scientific approach to proving the earth hollow.

30:11

This was the aspiration at least of John Cl Sims junior,

30:16

the man who, for at least a century

30:18

became synonymous with the concept so much so

30:21

that the phrase Sims became a common tongue in cheek expression used

30:26

us we might today use v. That is?

30:29

I can't find my watch. Where could it be? Oh, must have gone

30:34

down a Sims hole and unhelpful victoria might

30:37

answer. Sims had been a captain in the War

30:41

of 18 12 after which she opened a

30:43

trading post on the frontier near Saint Louis

30:46

Missouri. Business wasn't particularly good, so he began brood

30:50

on his own eccentric ideas.

30:54

In 18 18, he made his thoughts public

30:57

in a dramatic proclamation known as circular number 1.

31:02

I declare the earth is hollow,

31:05

and habitable within, containing a number of solid concentric spheres

31:11

1 within the other, and that it is open at the polls,

31:15

12 or 16 degrees. Later, he would simple this to a single

31:20

internal sphere, he goes on.

31:23

I pledge my life in support of this

31:26

truth, and I'm ready to explore the hollow

31:29

if the world will support and aid me

31:32

in the undertaking. I have ready for the press. A treat

31:36

on the principles of matter, wherein an I show proofs of the above

31:42

positions, account for various phenomena.

31:46

I ask 100

31:48

brave companions well equipped to start from Siberia in the

31:53

fall season, with reindeer in slaves on the ice of

31:56

the frozen sea. I believe we will find warm and rich

32:01

land, stocked with thrifty vegetables and animals, if not

32:05

men. We will return in the succeeding spring.

32:11

Anticipating public response, Sims attached to his circular

32:15

a certificate attest to his sanity.

32:19

I won't go into the calculation. So would

32:21

she proved the earth hollow, but suffice it

32:24

to say he guarded the polar openings

32:27

as immense. Large enough so that the gradual

32:30

turn inward would not be noticed by those

32:32

saline toward the non exist and polls.

32:37

Despite his proposal being widely mocked, Sims sold

32:40

his trading post, moved to Kentucky and made

32:43

have and lecturing on his hollow earth theory

32:46

is full time job. While his were said to be dis disoriented,

32:51

dry and poorly delivered there, were listeners,

32:55

and surely attended us for the novelty, but

32:58

many freedom loving souls on country's Western Frontier

33:02

in Kentucky, Ohio, might have attended not so much for the

33:05

truth of his assertion, but out of local

33:09

pride, happy to see 1 of their own

33:11

thumb his nose at East Coast expertise.

33:16

Sims appealed to a Kentucky senator to bring

33:19

his proposed La Congress in 18 23

33:22

and representative Jt Johnson agreed,

33:26

promoting the possibility of new discoveries in geography,

33:31

natural history, geology and astronomy,

33:34

but of opening new sources of trade and

33:37

commerce. 25 senators voted I, but the motion was

33:41

table, eventually resurrected at 1 4 or another by

33:44

representatives from South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio but

33:48

funding never came. Sims even applied for foreign support through the

33:53

American ambassador to Russia, and count Robin off eager to see what

33:58

his Siberian territories might yield,

34:01

agree. But Sims sadly was unable to exploit this

34:05

opportunity as he couldn't scratch together passage to S

34:10

saint. Petersburg. In 18 19, there appeared a novel

34:18

Sim, a voyage of discovery capitalizing in the public's

34:23

fascination with Sims theory, The author is unknown, but given as

34:29

Captain Adam Sea bourne, the mariner who supposedly

34:33

undertook this voyage. Unlike our earlier stories, the story takes place

34:38

in antarctica rather than the arctic,

34:41

sea borne descriptions of the voyage 1

34:44

undertaken initially to hunt seals is en enlightened

34:46

by an unsuccessful mutiny the discovery of a mysterious giant

34:51

skeleton and equally enormous footprints perceived as belonging

34:55

to a bully mammoth, eventually unexpectedly warm temperatures to

35:00

sees and unfamiliar stars above

35:04

suggests that they are making that gradual turn

35:07

inward and entering the polar opening.

35:10

And land cited it is burdens.

35:14

Like a beautiful and highly cultivated garden

35:17

with meat, low buildings her throughout the scene. Of course, the inner

35:22

world S is inhabited and its occupants send

35:25

a surveillance mission and air vessel on before

35:29

such things existed. I observed its appearance to be that of

35:33

a ship's barge with an inflated wind sale

35:36

in the form of a cylinder. Suspended

35:39

longitudinal over it, leaving a space in which were

35:42

people. It had a runner like a fish his

35:45

tail and bins or oa, which appeared to

35:48

be moved by the people within. The S when encountered face to face salute

35:54

the crew members by pulling their noses

35:58

and speak, Sea says. In a soft

36:02

trill musical voice. His language was as unintelligible to me as

36:07

the notes of a singing bird. They are of the children's stature with extremely

36:13

white, almost translucent skin and white, clothing,

36:18

spun as sea later learns by a certain

36:21

oversized spider light creature, living in, mountain caves.

36:26

The exquisite beauty of the women

36:28

the graceful dignity of the men, the cha

36:32

decor ends and sincere politeness of all.

36:35

Harmed the mind and delighted the heart.

36:39

The enjoyment of this refined people were intellectual

36:43

and pure, not the deb debate

36:47

gratification of animal passions and sensual

36:50

appetite. For chapter after chapter the narrative piles on

36:54

these sorts of details, Ci smithsonian don't eat need or drink

36:59

intoxicated beverages, are untouched by diseases are peaceful and possess

37:04

snow weapons, worship God rather than gold treat their women

37:07

as equals and are governed by a council of exceedingly wise

37:12

leaders. They work ind for the common good and

37:16

are paid equally for all work

37:20

When Sea born and his crew speak of

37:22

the ways of the outer world, the

37:25

Smithsonian are filled with disgust.

37:28

And pity. When first encountering the outsiders, they're presumed to

37:34

be exiled sim as This is the punishment needed out to

37:38

those not compliant with their laws.

37:42

Sea Grim arises that at some point in the ancient

37:45

past, it's this that might explain the origins of our own corrupt race.

37:52

Wishing to avoid the moral contagion present by

37:55

the foreigners, Sea crew is banished from Sam.

37:59

And when a storm overtake her ship, all

38:01

evidence collected during their visit is washed overboard

38:04

and even the seal pe bring no real

38:07

profit is seem born cheated by a dishonest

38:10

middle. As the story ends, sea born still hopes

38:15

to 1 day return and make a fortune

38:18

exploiting all those precious, and resources because we're bad people up here.

38:31

There is another novel written in 18 38,

38:35

which I've referenced in a previous show, our

38:37

ghost chips episode way back went.

38:40

I included it there because it contained a particularly vivid and gruesome passage describing the sighting

38:46

of ship in its crew of dead siemens slowly

38:50

eaten away by carrie birds, that passage was penn by Edgar Allen Poe,

38:57

In the only novel he ever produced called

39:00

the narrative of arthur Gordon pi of Na.

39:07

Oh, had already offered readers a sort of

39:09

ghost ship of afloat in a weird south

39:11

Polar seed in his 18 31 story, Ms found in a bottle.

39:16

Ms for manuscript. And for Pi, poe returns

39:19

to the southern Seas around antarctica to create

39:21

this novels strange mix of lu terror,

39:26

imp mysteries and pot

39:29

adventure, all inter with tedious ships log, tight passages, latitude, long,

39:36

details of practical maritime cern and

39:39

discussions on map making earth sciences,

39:42

natural history and so forth.

39:44

It's rather uneven. Early in the novel, we have a young

39:49

pi fleeing his family to s away on

39:51

a w ship hiding within a dark claustrophobic

39:54

box with little food, Soon, there is a mutiny shortage of provisions

39:58

resulting in cannibalism and all this before they cross an ice

40:02

barrier air and discover the Balm, Fictitious island

40:04

of Sal, home to unknown fauna, including a ga

40:09

species of polar bear and strange fox like

40:12

Features with silky white hair and scarlet claws.

40:17

The islanders are

40:19

black, not only black skinned, but have black

40:22

teeth. And at this point, post slips into the

40:26

sort of uncomfortable nineteenth century tropes you might

40:30

expect. First assumed to be friendly the natives turn

40:33

on Pi and his companions attacking them and

40:36

burning their ship and forcing them to flee

40:39

into the hills where they've discover a series of strange labyrinth passages,

40:43

carved with designs, later said to be

40:46

Egyptian hi and things.

40:50

There's another battle with the hostile tribe and

40:52

another escape this time on a canoe,

40:55

Which seems to be pulled irr remarkably south

40:59

word on mysterious current,

41:03

Pi logs the days with a sense of

41:05

dread, by the way, before missus Car reads, the next passage is a little spoiler alert

41:10

for the next 2 and a half for 3 minutes as we're nearing the novels

41:14

truly surprising end. March first,

41:19

many are... Unusual phenomenon now indicated that we

41:22

were entering upon a region of novelty

41:25

and wonder. A high range of light gray vapor appeared

41:29

constantly in the southern horizon. Flaring up occasionally, in

41:34

Streak, now dart from east to west,

41:38

now from West to east. And again, oc

41:41

presenting a level and uniform summit.

41:44

In short, having all the wild

41:47

variations of the aurora Bore,

41:50

the water begins growing hot and turns the

41:53

milky color, then

41:56

fine white powder resembling ashes, but certainly not

42:00

such, fell over the canoe

42:03

and over large service of the water

42:06

as a flickering died away among the vapor

42:09

and the commotion subsided in the sea.

42:13

Such the gigantic cut now ranged along the

42:16

whole extent of the southern horizon.

42:19

At intervals, they were visible in it while,

42:22

yawning, but moment rents.

42:25

And out these rents within which was a

42:28

chaos of living and

42:30

distinct images. There came rushing and mighty, but

42:35

sound winds tearing up the kindle ocean in their core,

42:40

and then the final entry.

42:44

Many gigantic imp white birds flew continuously now from the

42:49

ups the bail. And now we rushed into the embraces of

42:53

the cataract where a cousin threw itself open to receive

42:57

us on but there,

43:00

a rose in our pathway, a shrouded human figure, very far a large

43:06

in its proportions than any dwell among men,

43:09

and the hue of the skin of the figure,

43:12

walls of a bear perfect what miss

43:16

of the snow. Yes. That's really how it ends. The very

43:25

last words, presumably as they enter a polar other world

43:29

or make them what you will. Despite never actually delivering a description of a

43:37

world within our own? Pose, p is in

43:42

linked with hollow mythology. In part, because of some mysterious words reported

43:47

by the attending physician, John Joseph Moran at

43:50

the hospital to which poe was brought when

43:53

found intoxicated and deli

43:56

on the street. In Moran...

44:00

Official memorandum of the death of Edgar A

44:04

poe. Published to the Baltimore son, The physician

44:07

is quoted. I found him in a violent deli.

44:12

This state continued until Saturday evening when he

44:15

commenced. Calling for 1 reynolds,

44:18

which he did to the night until 3

44:21

on Sunday morning. It's often suggest that this could be the

44:24

newspaper editor, writer, explorer, and Hollow earth ent,

44:28

j in reynolds. So his address on the subject of surveying

44:33

and exploring expeditions in the Pacific Ocean and

44:36

South Seas had been favorably reviewed by poe,

44:40

for the southern literary messenger,

44:44

and a similar piece by Reynolds Po reviewed

44:46

for the Philadelphia based Grams magazine.

44:50

More significantly, Poe had actually borrowed some 700

44:54

wars directly from the aforementioned

44:56

address s text for Arthur Gordon Pi.

45:02

As a s war supporter of the Hollow

45:04

Earth concept, reynolds, not only was in communication

45:07

was Sims, but joined him for years on

45:09

his lecture tour. However, with time, reynolds modified his perspective, exchanging

45:15

the idea of a polar opening, for that of the warmer open polar c

45:20

hidden behind Icy barriers. This more modern position no doubt aided him

45:27

in securing the support that in 18 29

45:31

allowed him to organize a private

45:34

expedition. Which reached the shores of antarctica.

45:38

The trip wasn't exactly as planned, however,

45:41

on the return, reynolds and a companion were

45:44

abandoned by a mountainous crew on the shores

45:47

of chile, leaving the cast to spend 2 years in

45:51

that country as va bonds. While reynolds may have modified

45:59

sins beliefs. His Hollow earth concept lived on far after

46:03

his death in 18 28, and not only is a motif for fiction.

46:09

In 18 71, for instance, William F lion

46:13

produced a book based on on scientific theories,

46:15

but channel material, 1 with the curious title.

46:20

The hollow globe or the world's ag educator and reconcile.

46:26

A treat on the physical of the earth

46:30

presented through the organism of M l Sherman

46:34

D. Sherman was the spiritual medium whose channel

46:37

content was said to have been merely edited by

46:40

Lion. 18 85 saw the publication of another book

46:44

on the topic, interior world, American manifest destiny by Washington El

46:50

tower, which wrapped an earnest argument for national exploitation

46:55

of this final frontier

46:57

inside a predictable adventure story, In 19 o eight's saw the founding in

47:02

New York of the William Reed Hollow Earth

47:05

exploring club, an organization inspired by Reed p

47:09

reportedly non fiction volume, the phantom of the

47:12

polls. Although I don't believe the club ever pulled

47:16

together that expedition. 1 of the more influential books on this

47:23

topic appeared even later in 19 13.

47:27

A journey to the Earth's interior,

47:29

or have the poles really been discovered?

47:32

No. Said Marshall b Gardner, owner of a

47:35

cor factory in the outskirts of Chicago.

47:38

Like Sims, he imagined the inward turning to

47:41

the ocean's surface is gradual so that went

47:43

unnoticed by sailors. And like reynolds,

47:46

imagined balm lands hidden behind an icy barrier.

47:50

Here, through the heat of the interior sun,

47:53

Plant life makes seed in size and luxurious.

47:57

Any vegetation that ever grew upon the outside

48:00

service of the earth. The frozen bodies of mammoth

48:04

discovered with surprising frequency, particularly in Siberia

48:08

seemed far too fresh, to gardner be thousands

48:12

of years old. Surely, they had only recently stray from their

48:16

home in the inner earth and the plant life still recognizable in their

48:22

stomachs testified to that lush anterior vegetation.

48:26

A particularly entertaining chapter, mammoth an finds further

48:31

evidence in the relatively normal fresh, I guess,

48:34

taste of their meat. The most talked about

48:38

mammoth Banquet was that given by professor Hertz

48:41

of the imperial academy of science.

48:44

Of Sage Petersburg, who had been the leader

48:46

of the expedition into Siberia, which une unearned and transported the mammoth in

48:52

question to the imperial museum,

48:55

and asked scientists in other parts of the

48:57

world to contribute other ancient foods such as

49:00

corn dug up from the ruins of Egyptian

49:02

cities. He then cites an account of this

49:05

banquet and its main course. Mammoth stake, which all the learning guests declared

49:12

was agreeable to taste and not much tougher than some of the

49:16

solo furnished by butcher up today.

49:20

Another mammoth meal was eaten by an American

49:23

traveler and author Mister James Oliver C,

49:27

who told reporter from the Chicago Tribune.

49:30

The flesh was of a deep bread or

49:33

mahogany color. And I dine on steak, an

49:36

inch and a half thick. The flavor of the meat was old, not

49:41

unpleasant, but simply old and dry.

49:44

That it had lost none of its life sustaining elements was shown by the fact that

49:48

the dogs the rover upon it. And finally,

49:51

there's a 19 third. Chain banquet organized in

49:55

Paris by the Italian poet military officer, Gabriel,

50:00

who declared. It was the most successful dinner I ever

50:04

gave. The elephant meat exceeded my highest

50:08

expectations. In flavor it was like tortoise flesh. But

50:13

it was well a little tough. I had it bro and served with 6

50:17

different kinds of sauce. Good meat shouldn't really need all those sauces,

50:23

but I wouldn't have turned down that invite.

50:33

Now, I'm sure there's a particular French novel

50:36

that came to mind when we started talking

50:38

about adventures and the earth interior. Of course, I mean Jules 18 64 novel

50:43

journey to the center of the Earth, which

50:46

you've now learned was far from the first

50:49

treatment of this scene. In fact, it wasn't even the first French

50:52

novel called dirt to the center of the earth.

50:56

A, largely forgotten 18 21 book with that

50:59

very same title appeared 43 years before Burns,

51:02

it was by Jo D.

51:05

And author best known for his 18 18

51:09

infer dictionary, a volume particularly familiar from its 18 63

51:14

edition with Illustrations of demons, which you've definitely seen probably

51:18

in horror movies in which a character flips

51:20

through and ancient occult toe.

51:24

Dump c center of the earth is another

51:26

work of utopian fiction, catalog the virtue of

51:30

the dim dominion inhabitants of roughly a half

51:33

a dozen lands on Earth's interior.

51:37

I also wasn't aware of this book until listener just Moe and expert on historical science

51:42

fiction pointed it out to me. I'd asked him about the first instance of the sub

51:47

dinosaur probe, Something familiar from turns novel.

51:51

D diplomacy c does have some sort of

51:53

seed monster popping up behind a boat and

51:56

fought off by the explorer poor, but it's

51:59

described as a monster of enormous size we mis mistook

52:04

for a sea horse. And then they're were flying dragons,

52:08

rather classically folk glory Dragons own up, really

52:11

matching up with any kind of terra sword really?

52:14

So it seems that Jules Verne journey to

52:16

the center of the earth is the real sub

52:19

dinosaur choke maker. But I'm getting a bit ahead

52:22

of myself. Ver story begins with the discovery of a

52:31

run manuscript by the German professor, Otto von

52:34

Linden, 1 containing a note describing a journey deep

52:38

below the Earth, undertaking in medieval Iceland northern

52:42

starting point as is traditional for these stories.

52:46

Following the clues in the manuscript Linden Broken

52:48

his nephew traveled to that country, and with

52:51

the local guide began their interior journey with

52:54

a descent through the mouth of dormant volcano.

52:59

Burns scientific orientation doesn't allow for the traditional hollow earth's

53:04

sphere within a sphere nonsense sentenced study simply

53:07

describes it is sent through cavern albeit including

53:10

some rather, enormous chambers 1 large enough to accommodate a

53:14

vast underground ocean he dubbed central sea.

53:18

There is no inner sun of course, the

53:20

explorers bring their own lights, which should only

53:23

reach so far, so to reveal the vast

53:25

of that sieve or deposits it some

53:28

mysterious electromagnetic phenomenon and associated with the

53:32

chambers vault and also provides a luminous gas to light

53:37

another chamber As seen already in at Do, there's an

53:41

underground river and forests of colossal mushrooms,

53:45

Along with other giant flo, representing a Vast

53:49

and mysterious hot house of ante il plants.

53:55

Be explicitly structures his story after the paleo

53:58

logical process of digging for fall that is

54:01

a descent into lower strata being a descent

54:04

into the past. So naturally, a herd of living mastodon are

54:09

encountered. Strangely, these are accompanied by a sort of

54:13

shepherd of 12 foot primitive man,

54:16

something recalling the biblical notion of Anti d

54:19

il China and so strange that even leaves the outspoken

54:23

professor Lin brought more or less speechless.

54:26

Hence and of course, there's that signature scene

54:29

illustrated on the covers of many additions, the battle between

54:33

2 prehistoric monsters who swim the central sea,

54:37

Ver had his professor pinned them with specific

54:39

names. The first of these hideous monsters.

54:44

Has a sn of a poor miss, the

54:46

head of a lizard, the teeth of a

54:48

crocodile, and it is this that has deceived us,

54:53

it is the most fearful of all angelo

54:55

d reptile. The world renowned, ic

55:00

us or great fish lizard.

55:03

The other is a monstrous serpent.

55:06

See under the hard baltic shell of the

55:09

turtle, the terrible enemy of its fearful rival,

55:13

the p or sea K island. Will

55:19

Listener, Justin also pointed me to an early

55:22

work of paleo art, actually the earliest and

55:25

18 30 water color by English geo Henry

55:28

D, which might have inspired Ver battle.

55:33

The painting, which was widely circulated in lit

55:36

form shows precisely these 2 species fighting.

55:39

With the ic crunching in its jaws, they s neck p

55:45

seemingly the in the encounter as it is

55:48

in the novels battle. This prehistoric combat scene was so popular that

55:55

in 18 71 English edition of the novel,

55:58

1 notorious for its audacious liberties with the

56:01

text, fabricated an entire chapter dedicated to staging another

56:05

battle between something called a Shark crocodile.

56:09

And a 14 foot cave only 08:14

56:23

Don't unthinkable of but my be true a man took some tools and went by no

56:26

human. Being at foot alone

56:29

went into the interiors earth. Ladies and gentlemen,

56:32

this is James Mason. Being come along with Pat boone and me,

56:37

Ali, Diane Baker

56:40

and k the duck. And discover sights and sounds and wonders, no

56:45

living man has ever witnessed before. Speaking of

56:47

prehistoric creatures. Hope you'll indulge me with this final personal

56:52

complaint about the 19 59 film adaptation.

56:56

Essay sa, lifelong stop motion fan. I remember

56:58

being bitterly disappointed as a kid with what

57:01

must have been intended to substitute for the

57:04

aforementioned battle scene. It's no longer in the sea itself, but

57:08

on the shore and anti anticlimactic cameo by a handful of

57:13

t, not visualize through stop motion, but by

57:16

gluing fins to the backs of actual lizards.

57:20

Rhino now Ig who flop about in that

57:23

dis way, not battling each other, but really

57:27

cannibal 1 of their own after it's killed

57:29

by a single spear thrown by 1 of the explorers.

57:34

Another brief dinosaur scene uses, another lizard actor

57:38

something like a monitor liz day t lizard

57:41

airbrush red for some reason and

57:44

moving through a miniature set representing And ruins,

57:47

not here something in the novel, but I

57:50

suppose after Disney's, 20000 leaks under the sea,

57:53

audiences just demanded at lan and ruins their

57:56

jules verne movies. And

58:00

then there's the casting of pat Boone as

58:03

the professors nephew, which

58:05

might have worked at the time at least for box office as he was a fairly

58:09

big star in 19 59, but in music,

58:12

not as an actor. He does sing 1 song in the film

58:17

and little snippet of the Robert Burns spell

58:20

that's appropriate to the nineteenth century Scottish setting,

58:23

but there were 2 more song sequences,

58:27

shot, but thankfully discarded,

58:30

including this with a naked pat boom discreet

58:33

shot, of course, seen as he showers in

58:37

crystal. I suddenly feel like singing

58:47

Yeah, a bit cringe as the kids say.

58:50

And there is 1 other song I pray

58:53

to God. They never considered using this in the film, but I guess it was released

58:56

as a sort of cross promotion. I'll just close out with this, but we'll

59:01

be back next month with part 2.

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