Your Dark Passenger

Happy weekend, dark passengers.  Although we have more paranormal terminology to cover on Your Dark Passenger, I wanted to give you something a little more interesting to contemplate this weekend.  So let’s take two of my favorite things - conspiracy theories and the paranormal - and smash ‘em together.

There’s actually quite a lot to this one so I think we’d best break it down into pieces.  First, we’ll talk about what the Hollow Earth is.  Then we’ll tackle where the conspiracy comes into play.

What is the Hollow Earth Theory?

Honestly, this is one of those things where it’s hard to tell whether the theory was born and spawned the science fiction stories or if the stories captured people’s imaginations and brought about this theory.  Either way, plenty of websites are devoted to this bizarre idea.  Don’t believe me?  Google it.

Anyway…

Think back to your Earth Science courses from school about what you were taught about the Earth.  You know, the planet is centered around a dense, hot core.  Around the core is a liquid mantle of burning magma.  The Earth’s crust floats over top of that mess on an intricate network of techtonic plates.

I don’t know about you, but that always sounded sort of complicated to me.  The Hollow Earth Theory might make more sense.  Let’s find out.

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