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Hollow Earth
3 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The Hollow Earth Pole Hole (Peary vs. Byrd)This theory merged polar exploration, disputed achievement, and hidden-world mythology. It claimed that Admiral Richard E. Byrd did not merely fly over the polar region in 1926 but discovered or entered a vast opening into the interior of the Earth. The story later attached itself to alleged secret diaries, subterranean civilizations, and official silence. It also drew on the unresolved atmosphere surrounding polar prestige claims, because both Robert Peary’s 1909 North Pole claim and Byrd’s 1926 flight were debated by skeptics. In conspiracy form, those debates were transformed into proof that explorers had found something they could not openly describe.
- The "Hollow Earth" Pole Hole (1909)This theory claimed that Robert Peary’s 1909 polar expedition did not merely reach the North Pole or fail to reach it, but encountered evidence of the polar opening long predicted by hollow-earth believers. In its stronger forms, Peary was said to have found the entrance and then been paid or pressured into silence. The theory drew on a longstanding tradition of hollow-earth literature that imagined large openings at the poles, combined with the extraordinary symbolic weight of polar exploration and the fact that Peary’s claim itself was contested almost immediately.
- The "Flat" Arctic HoleThis theory claimed that the far North was not simply an icy endpoint of geography, but the entrance to a vast interior realm or a cosmic passage linked to another world or star. It belongs to the family of hollow-Earth and polar-opening theories that circulated from the eighteenth century into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In stronger versions, the North Pole was described not only as a physical opening but as a luminous gateway connecting Earth to a different celestial order.