Art Bell interviews Dallas Thompson, a former personal trainer from Bakersfield who plans to lead an expedition to the North Pole on May 24, 2003, to locate and enter the opening into the hollow Earth reported by Admiral Byrd. Thompson intends to use a SoloTrek personal helicopter, a 350-pound one-person vertical flight vehicle, to descend into the passage with an L.A. film crew documenting the journey.

Thompson describes a life-changing near-death experience after his car flew off a 250-foot cliff at 70 miles per hour during an El Nino rainstorm. Photographs of the destroyed vehicle and a newspaper article confirm the crash, with a responding officer stating decapitation should have been inevitable. Thompson credits his survival to spiritual intervention and says the NDE opened his awareness to visions of an upcoming pole shift and the existence of cave systems traversing the Earth's mantle.

He claims the hollow Earth contains tropical environments with 800-foot-tall trees, herds of woolly mammoths, crystal cities, and long-lived human tribes protected by a firmament atmosphere. Thompson says he was initiated as a shaman by a Hawaiian kahuna who was later killed in a collision with a government Humvee. He insists that intelligent beings within the Earth already know of his planned arrival and will guide him safely through the passage.