Here's a work of pure crank genius from Dr. Raymond Bernard, A.B., M.A., Ph.D., detailing the massive conspiracy to hide Admiral Byrd's discovery of a South Polar entrance to the Hollow Earth! Dr. Bernard was born Walter Isidor Siegmeister, and spent his life on a crusade for "alternative health remedies" and Hollow Earth truth. He died in 1965, and The Hollow Earth was published posthumously with a foreword by one Robert Fieldcrest, who plugs the vintage quack cancer cure Krebiozen and Dr. Wilhem Reich's bogus Orgone energy. Here we see an early connection between the paranormal genre and "alt medicine" scams which continues to this day. The whole thing is kicked off by Bernard's incredulity at Admiral Byrd's description of journeying to a land "beyond the pole" ... surely Admiral Byrd meant he went inside the Earth, and was forced to withdraw any further elaboration by the CIA! Says Bernard:
Byrd remarked: "The present expedition has opened up a vast new land." The word "land" is very significant. He could not have referred to any part of the Antarctic continent, since none of it consists of "land" and all of it of ice, and, besides, its geography is fairly well known and Byrd did not make any noteworthy contribution to Antarctic geography.
Bernard elaborates his thesis when he stumbles across a text in a Brazilian bookstore titled From the Subterranean World to the Sky: Flying Saucers by O.C. Huguenin which bridges classic 1800s Hollow Earth theories with the new flying saucer craze of the space age. This results in some convergent evolution alongside the Shaver Mystery which also posited UFOs based in the Hollow Earth, albeit with demonic Dero controllers - Bernard hypothesizes that his UFO pilots are benevolent and engaged in a millennia long plan to uplift mankind into a golden age.
The complete text of The Hollow Earth is available to read and download at archive dot org.
Dell Publishing, 1969
FAAACCCK I knew it!
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