Category: Suppression Theories

• 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.