I am a big fan of conspiracy theories though I am not a big believer in them, really I just find it interesting to see the ideas people come up with and how they rationalize things. There are a lot of theories you can tell straight of that bat are just fiction but then there are some that are hard to disprove or prove and a small portion that turn out to be true. I am going to be posting a series of blogs discussing a range of theories and sharing my opinion on them.
There are many variations of the hollow earth theory but I'm going to talk about the most widely believed theory at this time, which follows along the lines of hidden inhabitants quietly making sure we don't make too much of a mess of the world.
The theory is based on a place called Agharta an inner continent with its own sun, cities and advanced technology. Ran by a race of part human part reptile creatures. Theories don't claim to know what these creatures actually know or why they stay hidden just that they are silently watching and influencing the outer world.
There are many theorized entrances to Agharta all around the world the largest two being at the north and south poles with many other small entrances hidden deep within caves often hidden by bodies of water.
Throughout history many civilizations have similar stories of some sort of world beneath our feat though there are very few stories of people being brave enough to venture into the depths to prove or disprove said stories, because lets be honest you have to be a bit crazy to venture down the deepest darkest caverns you can find.
One man who claims to have been brave or stupid enough to try to enter the hollow earth is a now famed man, named Admiral Byrd explorer and military hero. Byrd claims to have flown into the earth and reached the mythical inner continent Agharta where he saw beautiful cities and structures that he wrote a journal about.
Even with these claimed visitors we still have know proof of the mythical Agharta because know one has attempted to visit since the war even with Byrd's descriptions of this beautiful place just waiting to be explored.
Even though many cultures through history talk of an under world you can attribute most of the talk to religious propaganda and peoples natural fear of the unknown though the case of Byrd makes things a lot more interesting.
Now I don't believe that Byrd entered the earth and found Agharta, I think he was just one of the last great explorers of the modern era who realized the fleeting interest in the exploration of earth and wanted to get young people interested in exploring again. As the exploration of the earth involved of course exploring but also a lot of important scientific experiments.
I think this comes down to the typical case of the grass is greener, humans are naturally very inquisitive to the point where we will through logic and reason out the window to explore, because humans are also very creative we can easily make up complex stories of how there is a hidden place inside earth where everything is a bit better. You can see many examples of this in survival shows where the group will be placed in an area capable of thriving in but after a short time people get bored and want to see what better things could be hiding in the surrounding areas.
