
The episode discusses historical theories and events related to catastrophic shifts and their implications on society and mythology.
Project Nanook, the Strategic Air Command’s mission over the Arctic in the late 1940s, revealed that the magnetic pole was moving about 10 miles per year and is accelerating exponentially. After being analyzed by the OSS and the RAND corporation, it was decided that reporting this news to the public would “destroy the moral fiber of society.” And was kept private. Charles Hapgood, the lead geoscience researcher working within the same network, produced the crustal displacement theory which argued that rapid catastrophic shifts explain how Antarctica was once temperate, how the Sahara was once green, and how mammoths were flash-frozen with undigested tropical plants in their stomachs. In 1965, Chan Thomas, an aerospace engineer who worked for McDonnell Douglas, published a geological book titled ‘The Adam and Eve Story.’ The CIA subsequently classified it, removing it from public access. After a FOIA request, a sanitized 57-page version was released. Those pages describe a crustal shift completing in six to twelve hours, generating supersonic winds, and walls of ocean water two miles deep. The flood myth appears in over 200 independent cultural traditions worldwide. Immanuel…
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