(1996) by Dennis Crenshaw
Part 1
Background
The Myth of the North With this fact settled, the talk turned to the possibility of human life in Zone 4, which, it was decided was similar to their zone in relation to climate. The consensus was that it was a subject little time should be spent on. After all, no one would ever know because they would never be able to cross the boiling hot desert of the central zone. And there was one thing they were in total agreement of; the northern and southern zones were totally uninhabitable by any living thing. Period. The Myth of the North was born
The Myth's First Victim
Pytheas wasn't just your everyday sea captain. As Jeannette Mirsky reported in her classic study of Arctic exploration, To the North (1934): After six long years Pytheas returned from his trip to the north. He returned to tell of a beautiful, lush green land in the far north where people lived who tended fields of crops and grains and owned large herds of healthy and fat livestock.
The 'myth of the north' was stronger than Pytheas' popularity and the wonder of his previous achievement. The report of inhabited lands in the far north destroyed his creditability, because everyone “knew” that man could not live in the immeasurable cold of the frozen zones. Pytheas was branded “the biggest liar in antiquity” and held that unwanted title for over 2000 years. Except for a few fragments, his records and writings were destroyed. As Ms Mirsky concluded;
Thus Pytheas was the first victim of “the myth of the north”, the belief of its inhabitability. The newcomers to Greenland formed a government similar to the government of Iceland and in 990 had their Congress in place. This was America's first Democratic-Republic. Greenland was a Democratic-Republic from 990 to 1261 --- over 200 years longer than the United States has had the same form of government. In 1261 Greenland voluntarily ceased to be a Republic and became a province of Norway.
Vilhjalmar Stefansson, one of the 20th Century's most distinguished polar explorer/scientist described their way of life in Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic (1938). The last European ship sailed from Greenland in 1410 or in 1448 and at that time it was believed that even before this time all farms in the Western Settlement were tenantless, but considered that many if not most of the farms of the Eastern District were still occupied when this last contact with Europe took place. (Page 25).
To quote from Jennette Mirsky's excellent book, To the North! Once again:
In 1929 the top historian of medieval Greenland, Finnur Jonsson estimated that 9000 people vanished without a trace. Valjalmur Stafansson in the already quoted Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic gives the only real clue as to where they went: One of the most popular theories has to do with attrition. Those who argue for this theory believe that Icelandic immigrants simply inter-married with the local native population and disappeared into their culture. The problem with this theory is that not one word of their language nor a single artifact has ever been found. (Remembering that the colonists were very religious Catholics possessing all the crosses, statues, etc that that entails.) Nor, has any other proof of this happening ever been found. They and their personal belongings had simple vanished. The thought that they might have survived does not even cross the mind of those who look for an answer to this mystery because of the Myth of the North. They can be traced to the north, but they couldn't have survived up there. Of course if the earth is hollow, with lands inside, it is easy to speculate on their final destination. Oh, and one final thought on the subject. Could the blonde humanoids reported to be in an advisory position aboard UFOs be descendants of the “Lost Colony of Greenland?”
The Search for the Northwest Passage Henry Hudson, Sir John Franklin, Major-General A.W. Greeley, Parry and Peary are just a few of the better known early northern explorers. First over the Lip On May 31st, James Clark Ross stood at 89o 59o and watched as his magnetic compass dipped sharply while the horizontal needle was totally inactive. He was sure he had located the exact spot of the magnetic pole. According to hollow earth beliefs he was actually standing on the center of the lip of the north polar opening. In 1893 Dr. Fridtjof Nansen equipped a ship of his own design, the Fram. As planned, he allowed his ship to be frozen in the winter ice of the Arctic Ocean and drifted with the ice across 50,000 miles of previously unexplored Arctic waters. Many of the “mysteries” cited by the founders of the Hollow Earth Theory were discovered by Nansen. He first reported of the open sea with warm winds coming from the north; the red and green pollen covering snow thousands of miles from any source; fresh driftwood found in the ice on the Arctic Ocean - an Ocean that is almost landlocked by rocky coast with no trees on any of them.
The First Airman Andre and his crew, the first men to try and fly over the pole, flew up and out of sight and disappeared into the mysterious skies above the Arctic Ocean. Despite one of the most massive rescue missions undertaken up to that time, no sign of him, his balloon, or his crew was found. Thirty-three years later remains of his balloon were found at a spot that had been searched many times before. We'll look into this strange caes in a later report. Stay tuned!
From my research I am sure that neither Peary nor Cook could have reached the pole. However I do believe that Peary thought he had achieved his goal. As Major-General A.W. Greeley wrote on the subject in The Polar Regions in the Twentieth Century (1928): The Controllers had a problem. People were getting closer and closer to the truth about the both Polar Regions. With modern equipment and air travel on the horizon it was inevitable that someone would uncover the closely guarded secret. Something had to be done. The answer lay in America, in the hands of one person. That person was Richard E. Byrd. To be continued . . .
Sources: Ultima Thule © 1940 by Vilhjalmar Stefansson, published by The Macmillan Co., NY. To the North: The Story of Arctic Exploration from Earliest Times to the Present © 1934 by Jeannette Mirsky, published by the New Viking Press, NY. Heroes of the Farthest North & Farthest South © 1923 revised 1937 by J. Kennedy MaClean & Chelsea Fraser. Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic by Vilhjalmar Stefansson © 1938 by the Macmillion Company, published by Press North America, 835 Lakechime Dr. Sunnyvale, and CA 94089. Peary at the North Pole: Fact or Fiction , 1973, by Dennis Rawlins.
Part 2 of this series is located in:
THE HOLLOW EARTH INSIDER Vol.1 # 6.
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