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ventures carried the allegedly true, intensely
controversial experiences of Richard S. Shaver.
Shaver asserted that he had been inside vast
subterranean caverns, where remnants of an
advanced race that had once populated the
surface still lived. There were two groups, the
deros—sadistic idiots who used the ancients’
advanced technology to harm surfacedwellers—and
the teros—the embattled minority
of good guys who tried, mostly without
success, to stop the deros’ schemes.
When flying saucers and UFOs entered
popular consciousness in the years after World
War II, inevitably, speculation tied them to
inner-earthers. Flying Saucers, a magazine edited
by Ray Palmer, who, as editor of Amaz -
ing, had championed what he called the
Shaver mystery, brought the concept of holes
in the poles and the notion of hollow earth
into its pages. Perhaps the most widely read
book in the literature, The Hollow Earth
(1964) by Raymond Bernard (the pseudonym
of Walter Siegmeister, a man with a decadeslong
association with fringe beliefs), stated
that flying saucers come in and out the pole
holes. The Canadian neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel,
writing as Christof Friedrich, contributed the
book UFOs—Nazi Secret Weapons (1976),
which alleged that Hitler and his Last Battalion
had fled to Argentina, then to Antarctica.
From there they entered the earth and dedicated
their energies to the construction of an
advanced technology. Nazi technology is responsible
for what we call UFOs. Zundel—
and later the Missouri-based International Society
for a Complete Earth—tried to raise
funds to fly through the hole in the pole in vehicles
prominently displaying swastikas to ensure
that they got a friendly reception.
Some, though not all, current hollow-earth
advocacy is tied to explicit or implicit pro-
Nazi sympathies. For example, Norma Cox’s
virulently anti-Semitic Kingdoms within Earth
(1985) blamed an international Zionist conspiracy
for suppressing the truth about a hollow
globe; she also openly praised Hitler. A
more benign, good-humored approach to the
subject of a hollow earth can be found in
Honor 123
Dennis G. Crenshaw’s occasional periodical
The Hollow Earth Insider.
See Also: Adamski, George; Contactees; King Leo;
Lemuria; Mount Shasta; Rainbow City; Shaver
mystery
Further Reading
Beckley, Timothy Green, ed., 1993.The Smoky God
and Other Inner Earth Mysteries. New Brunswick,
NJ: Inner Light Publications.
Bernard, Raymond [pseud. of Walter Siegmeister],
1964. The Hollow Earth: The Greatest Geographi -
cal Discovery in History. New York: Fieldcrest
Publishing.
Cox, Norma, 1985. Kingdoms within Earth. Marshall,
AR: self-published.
Crabb, Riley, 1960. The Reality of the Underground.
Vista, CA: Borderland Sciences Research Associates.
Fitch, Theodore, 1960. Our Paradise inside the Earth.
Council Bluffs, IA: self-published.
Friedrich, Christof [pseud. of Ernest Zundel], 1976.
UFOs—Nazi Secret Weapons? Toronto, Ontario:
Samisdat.
———, 1978. Secret Nazi Polar Expeditions.
Toronto, Ontario: Samisdat.
Kafton-Minkel, Walter, 1989. Subterranean Worlds:
100,000 Years of Dragons, Dwarfs, the Dead, Lost
Races and UFOs from inside the Earth. Port
Townsend, WA: Loompanics Unlimited.
Michell, John, 1984. Eccentric Li ves and Peculiar No -
t i o n s . San Diego, CA: Ha rc o u rt Brace Jova n ov i c h .
Trench, Brinsley le Po e r, 1974. Se c ret of the Ages: UFOs
f rom inside the Ea rt h . London: So u venir Pre s s .
Walton, Bruce A., 1983. A Guide to the Inner Earth.
Jane Lew, WV: New Age Books.
X, Michael [pseudonym of Michael X. Barton],
1960. Rainbow City and the Inner Earth People.
Los Angeles: Futura.
Honor
In early January 1978, according to a West
German newspaper, a twelve-year-old Iranian
girl, identified only as Sara, underwent a series
of contacts with an extraterrestrial creature
named Honor. The contacts took place over a
seven-day period. Covered with black hair or
fur, Honor stood six and a half feet tall and
hailed from a world ten light years “ahead” of
Earth. Sara said that the extraterrestrial had
given her psychokinetic powers that allowed
her to move household appliances with mind
power alone.