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Finding Lost Atlantis Inside the Hollow Earth

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There is much to recommend in Brinsley Le Poer Trench's masterwork "Finding Lost Atlantis Inside The Hollow Earth," recently reissued by Global Communications. For one thing, the writing style is clean, even old-fashionably elegant, and Trench's scholarly approach to using previously published material on the subject is beyond reproach, being thorough and levelheaded throughout.

That said, just what is the book about? Trench takes on the daunting task of establishing the reality of both the Lost Continent of Atlantis AND the existence of a world hidden in the hollow core of the earth, exactly as the title implies. After patiently making his case for the historical, real world existence of the two legendary locations, he moves on in a third section to discuss the kind of being he speculates may live in the "bowels of the earth."

Trench primarily contends that Atlantis did indeed exist some 9000 years before Plato made reference to it in ancient Greece. When the super-advanced residents of Atlantis saw disaster coming, the exact nature of which of course remains unknown, they began to dig tunnels beneath the earth and to migrate east and west in hopes of escaping. While they were for the most part wiped out, the tunnels and some of their machinery remained behind and were used by the survivors to create a habitable world inside the earth, lit by an internal sun while being topographically the opposite of the surface world. For instance, what would be mountains topside are stalagmites hanging from the ceiling instead for those who dwell below.

Along the way, Trench offers up a wealth of factual data to support his claims. One learns about the cover-up alleged to have been perpetrated by the government regarding Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who very likely discovered a warm, hospitable stretch of land in the Arctic North, as well as an entrance to a world inside the earth that has since been shrouded in official secrecy. The book includes a series of photographs of a large dark hole where the North Pole should logically be seen, taken during a series of NASA satellite over-flights in the late 1960s. This reviewer must admit that the photos look pretty darn convincing. Is the hole the entrance to that fabled subterranean world? This inner world may also be the home base of the countless UFOs that have been sighted repeatedly throughout human history, according to Trench.

Trench also calls on the late, great Raymond Palmer to shore up his arguments for the existence of an official government "clamp-down" on information about the secret entrance to the inner earth, as well as the work of Richard Shaver, who claimed to be in contact with two races of people who lived in the hidden world. One of those races, the Dero, formerly occupied the surface of the earth until upheaval and calamitiy forced them to move underground to survive. They have since degenerated into a state of madness and sadism and use their superior technology--machines that are a remnant of the Atlantean scientific know-how--to torture and confuse us surface dwellers, even to the point of causing warfare and genocide among us. As an explanation for the wickedness of human history, this one is as good as any.

Brinsley Le Poer Trench was also the Earl of Clancarty and a distinguished member of the House of Lords. Until his death at the age of 83 in 1995, he campaigned tirelessly to get the British Crown to open its files on the UFO phenomenon, and would regularly schedule lectures by UFO experts from around the world held there in the Parliament building in London. Trench continues to be sorely missed by all who knew him, and this Global Communications reissue of "Finding Lost Atlantis Inside The Hollow Earth" is a worthy part of his lasting legacy.