Next Stop, China!

 

“My friends though I was crazy,” confesses Árpád Kirner, daring Hungarian scientist,” when I made known my intention to explore the crater of an active volcano – to descend its enormous pit, where explosions rapidly follow one another.” And where explosions come a thousand times faster – in your automobile engine – not even steel clothes and asbestos underwear help to give you a look-in. Otherwise what a sight for your eyes! You could witness what happens today after your Mileage Merchant makes the quick change to your correct Summer grade of Germ Processed oil that gives your engine OIL-PLATING…

The Yawning Hole, 1896

Article from the St. Paul Daily Globe., March 08, 1896, strangly linking the absurdity of Symmes’ theory about a hollow earth with a new theory that the American nostril was becoming smaller with each generation, and that certain doctors feared Americans were becoming a nation of “Mouth Breathers.” Their theory to correct the problem was “to have various parts of the nasal partition cut, sawed or chiseled out… as to make larger apertures for breathing.”

Koreshans Believe Earth is Hollow

That the earth is hollow, that the sun is really at its center, and that men men live inside the earth instead of on it, are the views held by the Koreshan cult, whose headquarters are in Florida. Koreshanity, or the Church Triumphant, was the creation of Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, a Utica, N.Y. physician.

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The Secret People, John Beynon Harris

Rocket to the Earth’s Core
It was an ultra-scientific machine- but it plunged Mark and Margaret into the weirdest of primitive worlds… a land beneath the Earth’s surface and forgotten by time, In those dimly lit caverns, a strange and forgotten race fought a desperate battle for survival… and blind chance would decide whether their captives would be rulers or slaves. The one certain thing was that there was no way out. (originally published in 1935)