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36.15 - MU Podcast - This Hollow Earth - Episode 06: The Coming Race and Vril Power

Mysterious UniverseOct 16, 2026

This installment of the This Hollow Earth saga dives into Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race, the supposed fiction that introduced Vril, an all-powerful energy wielded by a winged subterranean race called the Vril-ya. The hosts retell the narrator's descent through a mine shaft into a lamp-lit underground city, his encounters with mechanical wings, healing and destroying staffs, and a race that survived an ancient deluge by fleeing underground. They explore claims that Nazi occultists in the Vril Society treated the novel as fact and launched expeditions to find entrances to the hollow earth.

36.12 - MU Podcast - The Skill Trap | Outsourcing Ourselves

Mysterious UniverseSep 25, 2026

Hosts Joe Hodgdon and Brandon Thomas finish their look at Matt Beane's 2024 book The Skill Code, which argues that AI and automation are quietly removing the apprenticeship experiences that turn beginners into experts. Through stories of warehouse workers, salespeople, bankers, surgeons and bomb technicians, they explore how efficiency gains can cut off the next generation's learning. Along the way they tangent into Hollow Earth entrances, red-light camera legality and the alleged '20 and back' secret space program as a possible model for downloading skills.

36.11 - MU Podcast - This Hollow Earth - Episode 01: Deep Lore

Mysterious UniverseSep 24, 2026

Mysterious Universe launches a multi-part saga based on Warren Smith's 1970s book This Hollow Earth, exploring the claim that vast inhabited worlds exist beneath our feet. Hosts Brayden Thomas and Joe Hodgdon cover Edmund Halley's concentric-sphere theory, the Agartha legend, the sinister Deros, and the deathbed tale of Norwegian sailor Olaf Jansen, who claimed to have lived among giants inside the Earth. The episode also ties hollow Earth lore to UFOs emerging from below, secret chambers under the pyramids, Nero's hunt for subterranean treasure, and reports of underground cities and beings.

Guy Anderson | The Conspiracy ABCs of Obscure & Underreported Topics

The Higherside ChatsAug 31, 2026

Returning guest Guy Anderson, a former Freemason turned independent researcher, walks host Greg Carlwood through an alphabet of obscure conspiracy theories drawn from his encyclopedia-style book 'Conspiracy Theories from Agartha to Zombies.' Topics range from medieval armor as Faraday cages against ancient energy weapons, to the Blitz as a planned London 'reset,' to the Vatican's rumored Chronovisor time-viewing machine and dinosaurs as a cover for dragons. The pair also discuss the deaths of holistic doctors, the Ingersoll Lockwood and Trump time-travel links, Freemasonry's inner workings, and an impersonation scandal involving researcher Jason Breshears.

36.08 - MU Podcast - Free-Running | The Human Clock

Mysterious UniverseAug 28, 2026

Hosts Joe Hodgkin and Brandon Thomas dig into Alan Burdick's 2017 book Why Time Flies to explore how humans perceive and keep time, from atomic clocks to the clocks inside our own cells. The centerpiece is French geologist Michel Siffre, who lived alone in caves without clocks in 1962 and 1972, losing track of entire weeks as his body's internal rhythms drifted apart. Along the way the hosts riff on synchronicities, underground-dwelling beings, and the strange ways nature keeps time.