Wide Atlantic Weird

The history of beliefs regarding lost cities and civilizations beneath the Earth's surface is as vast and winding as the caverns of Agartha itself. In this episode we welcome Edward Guimont back to the cabin for a chat about some of the most interesting characters who have contributed to Hollow Earth thinking. Beginning with an apocryphal  tale of American pilot Admiral Byrd encountering a super-civilization of Nordic Masters inside the Hollow Earth, we cycle back to John Cleeve Symmes and his manifest destiny-style plans to conquer the Hollow Earth for the USA. Meet Raymond Bernard, the health food utopian who placed flying saucers within the Hollow Earth, Willy Ley, who wrote on occult Nazi beliefs, and Gerard Kuiper, respected astronomer who lended legitimacy to the idea that Nazis studied the sky in order to spot the movements of allied vessels on the far side of the concave Hollow Earth. 

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Dr Edward Guimont on Twitter

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Dr Edward Guimont’s Website

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Impossible Archive Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-impossible-archive/id1571034015

Full text of the supposed Admiral Byrd secret diary

http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/byrdiar.html

Pseudoscience in Naziland, Willy Ley

http://www.alpenfestung.com/ley_pseudoscience.htm

German Astronomy During The War, Gerard Kuiper

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1946PA.....54..263K

Pack your harmonica and join an expedition into the murky world of 1970s low-budget docudrama-making as we take a look at Bigfoot hunter Robert Morgan's 1974 'American Yeti' Expedition into the Pacific Northwest, and the recobbled film 'Bigfoot: Man Or Beast' that chronicles this epic event!

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Bigfoot: Man Or Beast on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJ-KORUt5E&t=73s

Bigfoot, The Life And Times Of A Legend, Joshue Blu Buhs

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo6407648.html

The Mysterious Monster Mash of the Mid 70s, Sharon Hill

https://sharonahill.com/2019/07/05/the-mysterious-monster-mash/

Regional Horror Films 1958-1990, Brian Albright

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/regional-horror-films-1958-1990/

Cian and Victoria discuss the definitive Dracula of their childhood, Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 'Bram Stoker's Dracula!,' which is a mouthful.

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Victoria's Twitter

https://twitter.com/vpearsonduffy

The Impossible Archive, Project Blue Book episode

https://impossiblearchive.podbean.com/e/project-blue-book-ft-kate-dorsch/

Marsh's Library Dublin exhibition on Bram Stoker

https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/exhibits/show/haunting

From The Shadow Of Dracula, Paul Murray, 2004

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151492.From_the_Shadow_of_Dracula

In Research Of Podcast - Dracula (*NOT Monster Talk as I mistakenly said in the episode! Listen to their addendum too!)

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/in-research-of/s01e16-dracula-CGz6e8YudIF/

Bram Stoker And The Seduction Of Old School Movie Magic, David Crow

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/bram-stoker-dracula-visual-effects-francis-ford-coppola/

The Art of Dracula 1992, Nick Louras

https://nicklouras.com/2020/10/17/the-art-of-dracula-92/

Recorded at the tail (aha!) end of an uncharacteristic Irish heatwave, and following a spot of solo camping that accidentally strayed into mystery big cat territory, Cian marshalls some thoughts on the subject of ABCs or Alien Big Cats. With some detail on the Exmoor Beast and the Surrey Puma, as well as thoughts on whether this is a flesh-and-blood happening, or something more mystical.

In a MUSICAL episode long delayed, Cian welcomes Leanne from The Strange Ways blog to talk about the special place the chilly polar extremes have always held in fact and specifically horror fiction. The poles themselves become mirrors through which colonial-era Europeans saw themselves and measured their achievements. We discuss Dan Simmons' book The Terror, the more recent TV adaptation, the clairvoyants who searched for the lost Captain Franklin, Arthur Conan Doyle's captain Of The Pole Star, ghost stories of Scott and Shackleton, Frankenstein and its polar bookend, and lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness. And there's even a couple of polar exploration-themed songs along the way!

Songs performed by Geraldine Gill, Kevin Gill and Cian Gill. Intro music by Kevin Gill and Cian Gill

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Leanne's Blog, The Strange Ways

http://www.thestrangeways.co.uk/

The Spectral Arctic, Shane McCorristine

https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/107752

Writing The Disaster, Franklin and Frankenstein, Adriana Craciun

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncl.2011.65.4.433

The Sea of Ice And The Icy Sea, The Arctic Frame Of Frankenstein, Janice Cavell

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379743

Take THAT, Bembridge scholars! Cian is delighted to welcome Lauren the Gothic Bookworm to the cabin for an awesome chat about all things Mummy, curses, and of course, Victorian Gothic! So many of our favourite writers, books, historical topics and more appear, including but not limited to:

-the mummy in comparison to other 'classic' monsters

-The Victorian/Edwardian fascination with Egypt and mummies; colonialism & orientalism

-Victorian 'invasion' literature

-early Victorian mummy fiction

-Arthur Conan Doyle's mummy & curse stories

-HR Haggard's mummy and Egypt in his fiction

-The British Museum unlucky mummycase

-Favourite mummy movies, including the 1959 and 1999 mummies

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Gothic Bookworm

https://www.instagram.com/gothicbookworm/

Mummy Mania Mondays

https://www.instagram.com/mummymaniamondays/

The Anatomy Shelf

https://Theanatomyshelf.substack.com

The Mummy’s Curse, Roger Luckhurst

https://www.bookdepository.com/Mummys-Curse-Roger-Luckhurst/9780199698714

Other sources:

Nicky Nielsen: Egyptomaniacs

Bob Brier: Egyptomania & Mummies

Jasmine Day: Mummymania

Best remembered today for his incredible output of genre-defining early science fiction novels during the 1890s, for much of his career Herbert George Wells was perhaps better known for other things. From the early 1900s he positioned himself as a man who would predict the future. Cian and Dónal chat about War of The Worlds, When The Sleeper Wakes, Well' ideas about progress and eugenics, and about his amusing meetings with other famous folks from his day - Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, Orson Wells, Charlie Chaplin and even Joseph Stalin.

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War of the Worlds: One More Day cardgame

https://www.instagram.com/waroftheworlds_onemoreday/

From the vaults, comes a Crichton-adjacent bonus episode in which Cian and Chris 'The Voice' Joyce discuss Jurassic Park: Trespasser, a famous over-reaching early open-world game that pretty much disappointed everybody upon its release. But, sifting through the wreckage of this abandoned dream, the guys discover that somehow, life ... has found a way.

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The Jurassic Time Youtube videos of Hammond's memoir

Jurassic Time

Cameron McCormick, writer on marine monster mysteries and sea serpent superfan, drops into the cabin to talk about the work and influence of Bernard Heuvelmans, remembered as the 'father of cryptozoology.' Heuvelmans was important as an early figure in the codification of cryptozoology, but many of his ideas were to remain unique to him in the decades that followed. Despite his respected status as a pioneer, not many who followed built upon the specific zoological ideas he came up with to explain monster sightings. In this episode we focus particularly on Heuvelmans' classification system for sea serpent sightings. He believed there were (approx) nine different categories of unknown enormous underwater animals.

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Cameron's Blog

https://thelordgeekington.wordpress.com/

Cameron's Tumblr

https://biologicalmarginalia.tumblr.com/

Cameron with Sharon Hill and Tyler Greenfield talk about the International Society of Cryptozoology, recommended!

Eddie's new podcast The Impossible Archive, recommended!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-impossible-archive/id1571034015?i=1000524899589

Plastic Plesiosaur podcast episode

https://plasticplesiosaurpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1751781/8671862-meet-your-maker-interview-with-monsterquest-creator-doug-hajicek

Brazil That Never Was

https://www.nottinghilleditions.com/product/brazil-that-never-was/#:~:text=Brazil%20That%20Never%20Was,-As%20a%20boy&text=The%20book%20told%20the%20true,the%20Amazon%2C%20and%20never%20returned.

Montreal Bloomsday Video Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iel_Ypqk1qI

Searching For Sasquatch by Brian Regal

https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/book-reviews/Eggheads-and-Crackpots.pdf

The ISC Journals

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Cryptozoology%20(ISC)/

Michael Crichton had a habit of recycling various Victorian-era fringe beliefs and obsessions in his techno-thriller fiction. With Eaters Of The Dead, he created a faux-academic 'translation' of the travels of the real-life Ibn Fadlan. The resulting novel has echoes of Beowulf, elements of cryptozoology, relic hominids, and a positive portrayal of Vikings as part of America's changing process of self-identification.

Incoming professor of history at Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA, Dr Edward Guimont rejoins the pod to discuss all this, with many links to other subjects familiar to listeners here at the cabin in the woods, in NEANDERTHALS AND NORTHMEN: EATERS OF THE DEAD.

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Dr Edward Guimont’s Twitter

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Love In The Time Of Chasmosaurs article about the Ladybird Lost World

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Ladybird Lost World on Tape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvNLbyuqsLU

In Search Of First Contact, Annette Kolodny

https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-search-of-first-contact