Posted on 06/06/2020 4:33:10 PM PDT by Norski
This unusual year shows signs of becoming weirder yet. Reading Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Sea of Glory” about the little-known U.S. Exploring Expedition (or “Ex-Ex”) of 1836 reminded me how 1965 was a particularly strange year for me. That October my family moved from Texas to Vermont, where we were “the Kennedy killers” in the eyes of New Englanders still resentful of the President’s assassination; we arrived the week after a couple named Hill were abducted in neighboring New Hampshire by a UFO; the massive Northeastern power blackout occurred the following week; and I was expelled from school ten minutes into my first day for replying “yes ma’am” to a teacher who considered me sassy rather than Southern. Odder still, when I went home to tell my parents about the expulsion, they presented a book that arrived for me COD that day: a completely unsolicited copy of “The Hollow Earth” by Raymond Bernard, who claimed that, not only was the Earth hollow, it was where UFOs come from.
This book, which I still own, was cheesy even by mid-60s standards of high-acid paper and stapled bindings, with blurred, grainy illustrations and a publisher’s note saying, “We will not enter into any correspondence regarding this book. Whether you accept or reject the contents of this book is your privilege. No one cares.” The author, “Bernard,” was actually Walter Seigmeister, “an early 20th-century alternative health and esoteric writer and mystic who formed part of the alternative reality subculture,” according to Wikipedia. He lived briefly in Ecuador with Johnny Lovewisdom (AKA “the Hermit Saint of the Andes”) where they dabbled in unusual dietary practices, like “breatharianism” According to HowStuffWorks.com, the Breatharians answer for health problems was “stop eating. Or rather, live off prana, which is a Sanskrit word that translates to “life air” or “life force.” Born John Weirlo in 1919, Lovewisdom lived beside an Ecuadoran crater lake he deemed safe from nuclear fallout. He was also pretty sure he was the reincarnation of Ananda, Buddha’s main disciple. Lovewisdom invited him to visit upon learning about Seigmeister’s “Dream to make a super-race who worship the sun.”
A friend of mine had the book when I was a kid. He swore it was all gospel. He grew up and became a polygamist.
Hey Gamey. Do you have the Hollow earth list available?
And he started out to the right of Herr Hitler and ended up an enthusiastic New Dealer and internationalist.
The TR3B is one of those flying triangles. They have been around since the 80’s.
I remember the ads TR-6 APPEAL!
The girl’s gym teacher had a TR-7. Her hubby had a ‘67 Mustang fastback.
I could make my TR7 headlights wink.
The electrical system took a PhD to comprehend, but man I loved that car.
I just wonder what
UFO’s got against Cows?
I need a 60 inch monitor to see that photo.......
I once knew a guy who believed the earth was hollow and that the government knew where there was an entrance to the cavity within the globe but was keeping it secret. Having passed a geology class at Occidental College taught by a noted glaciologist, I wasn’t convinced.
I still remember magazines in the 1960s advertising books on the Hollow Earth.
Bookstores at that time also had dozens of paperback books on the Lost Continent of Lemuria (MU).
I knew a man who swore every word of Erich Van Daniken’s CHARIOTS OF THE GODS from the 1970s, was true.
He didn’t tell you that the entrance is in Antartica? And that Antartica forms the boundary of the edge of the flat earth?
Sheesh, what a moron he was! /s
Van Daniken made the statement in his book:
“I seem to remember the bible says” which tells you all you need to know about the “rigor” of his research methods and reliability of his conclusions.
Couldn’t be bothered to pick the darn thing up and provide his readers with an actual citations.
https://www.amazon.com/Crash-Go-Chariots-Clifford-Wilson/dp/0890510229
“Crash Go the Chariots Paperback – January 1, 1976”
I had a TR2.
No kidding?
What became of it?
“Crash Go the Chariots Paperback – January 1, 1976”
I read that many years ago.
Hm. Caverns.
DUMBs, I hear they are called.
Deep Underground Military Bases.
Filled with Reptilians.
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