Hollow Earth

36.16 - MU Podcast - Beneath the Pyramids

Mysterious UniverseOct 23, 2026

Hosts Joe Hodgkin and Brandon Thomas recount Andrew Collins' 2009 book 'Beneath the Pyramids', which describes his search for a forgotten cave system beneath the Giza plateau first entered by Henry Salt and Giovanni Caviglia in 1817. Collins, his wife Sue and researcher Nigel Skinner-Simpson repeatedly entered the Tomb of the Birds and found natural caverns with apparent chisel marks, while dodging guards, bats and toxic guano dust. The story ends with a local legend of a giant guardian serpent protecting a Hall of Records, and with Zahi Hawass promising documentation that never arrived.

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.

Kevin Sterling: Ozark Atlantis

Earth AncientsOct 10, 2026

Author Kevin Sterling argues that refugees from a sunken Caribbean 'Atlantis' fled the Younger Dryas catastrophe through Florida and built a hidden, knowledge-based civilization in the caves and bluffs of the Arkansas and Missouri Ozarks. He claims these refugees mixed culturally with unusually tall 'giant' peoples and with crash-stranded gray aliens he calls the Night Dwellers, whom he links to the Cherokee legend of the Moon-Eyed People. Host Cliff Dunning opens with his own AI-assisted claim that the Great Sphinx's head is a later replacement made of different stone than its ancient body.

36.14 - MU Podcast - The Tayos Caves Mystery Part 1

Mysterious UniverseOct 9, 2026

Hosts Joe Hodgson and Brandon Thomas dig into the legend of Ecuador's Tayos Caves, where explorers claimed to find a hidden library of metal books, golden statues, crystal coffins, and a giant gold skeleton. Drawing on Alex Chionetti's 2019 book, they compare clashing eyewitness accounts from Juan Moricz, Julio Aguado, Avril Jesperson, and Petronio Jaramillo. The result is a tangled web of notarized claims, failed cameras, booby-trapped chambers, and a murdered informant, and no physical proof ever surfaced.

36.13 - MU Podcast - MU Interviews - Charlie Robinson - 002

Mysterious UniverseOct 2, 2026

Author and Macroaggressions host Charlie Robinson joins Mysterious Universe to discuss his new book, The Octopus of Population Control, the follow-up to The Octopus of Global Control. He argues that two separate elite factions are pursuing depopulation for different reasons: an Anglo-American establishment managing populations for its industries, and a group he labels Sabbatean-Frankists, whom he claims are driven by occult belief. These are contested claims, and some of them, such as the 'Kalergi Plan,' are widely documented antisemitic conspiracy theories. Robinson also questions official population figures for India and China and warns listeners to pull money out of banks because of G20 'bail-in' rules.

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.