A Hollow Earth?
Theories from the past and Edmund Halley.
Leonhard Euler
John Symmes
Cyrus Read Teed

Written Works
Patent 1096102 and Marshall B. Gardner
The incredible tale of Olaf Jansen
William Reed

Exploration at the Poles.
R. E. Peary
Matthew Alexander Henson
Roald Amundsen
Samuel Hearne
Ernest Shackleton
Donald Baxter MacMillan
James Clark Ross
F. Nansen
Robert Falcon Scott
Richard E. Byrd

Admiral Byrd's Secret Diary .
History of the diary
Flight Log - 2/19/47
Diary entry - 12/24/56

Nazis and the Hollow Earth
Hitler and
Occultism
Nazi UFO's

UFO's from the Void
Roswell and the Hollow Earth
Richard Shaver

Agharta  ..
Entrances
Inhabitants
Shaver Mystery
Mount Shasta
Information

A collection of data and curiosities regarding the theory
that the Earth is actually hollow and that there exist openings
at the poles and tunnels around the world, which allow access
to the inner Earth and possibly to the fabled city of Agharta.

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A Hollow Earth?
There is a theory that has existed for many years which states that the planet Earth
is a hollow sphere with openings into the center at the location of the poles and possible access through numerous tunnel systems located in Tibet and South America, some go so far as to speculate that this is where the Inca's disappeared
to and also could possibly be the source of UFO sightings.

Edmund Halley
One of the earliest "Hollow Earth" theories was proposed in 1692 by Edmund Halley. Edmund Halley was a brilliant English astronomer whose mathematical calculations pinpointed the return of the comet that bears his name. Halley was fascinated by the earth's magnetic field. He noticed the direction of the field varied slightly over time and the only way he could account for this was there existed not one, but several, magnetic fields. Halley came to believe that the Earth was hollow and within it was a second sphere with another field. In fact, to account for all the variations in the field, Halley finally proposed that the Earth was composed of some four spheres, each nestled inside another. Halley also suggested that the interior of the Earth was populated with life and lit by a luminous atmosphere. He thought the aurora borealis, or northern lights, was caused by the escape of this gas through a thin crust at the poles.

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Leonhard Euler
Others picked up Halley's hollow-earth theory often adding their own twists. In the eighteen century Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician, replaced the multiple spheres theory with a single hollow sphere which contained a sun 600 miles wide that provided heat and light for an advanced civilization that lived there.
Later, a Scottish mathematician named Sir John Leslie proposed there were two inside suns (which he named Pluto and Proserpine). 

John Symmes
One of the most ardent supporters of hollow-earth was the American John Symmes. Symmes was an ex-army officer and a business man. Symmes believed that the Earth was hollow and at the north and south poles there were entrances, 4,000 and 6,000 miles wide, respectively, that led to the interior. Symmes dedicated much of his life to advancing his theory and raising money to support an expedition to the North Pole for the purpose of exploring the inner earth. He was never successful, but after his death one of his followers, a newspaper editor named Jeremiah Reynolds, helped influence the U.S. government to send an expedition to Antarctica in 1838.
This journey, no doubt required a sizeable business cash advance.
While the explorers found no hole there, they did bring back convincing evidence that Antarctica was not just a polar ice cap, but the Earth's seventh continent.

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Cyrus Read Teed
In the mid-1800's, a new theory about the hollow-earth appeared. It was the brainchild of Cyrus Read Teed. Teed proposed that the Earth was a hollow sphere and that people lived on the inside of it. In the center of the sphere was the sun, which was half dark and half light. As the sun turned it gave the appearance of a sunset and sunrise. The dense atmosphere in the center of the sphere prevented observers from looking up into the sky and seeing the other side of the world. Interestingly enough, Teed's theory was hard for 19th century mathematicians to disprove based on geometry alone, since the exterior of a sphere can be mapped onto the interior with little trouble. Teed changed his name to Koresh and founded what might today be called a cult. After buying a 300 acre tract in Florida, Koresh declared himself the messiah of a new religion. He died in 1908 without proving his ideas. Even after his death, though, some continued to subscribe to his theory.

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Reputed photo from Apollo 16 showing the opening into the hollow earth at the North Pole.

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Another supposed photo from Apollo 16, again showing an opening at the pole.

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Illustration from the October 1882 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, showing the appearance of Symmes' Hole near the North Pole.

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Agharta, land
of advanced
races.

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This true-color image over the North Pole was acquired by the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard the Terra spacecraft, on May 5, 2000.

Shouldn't we be able to see the internal sun?