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The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

Well, in 2014, scientists discovered water hundreds of miles below the Earth's surface. Not just a little water. They found so much water, you can fill all the Earth's oceans with it. three times. Most of the Earth's water is not on the surface, it's inside.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

Well, in 2014, scientists discovered water hundreds of miles below the Earth's surface. Not just a little water. They found so much water, you can fill all the Earth's oceans with it. three times. Most of the Earth's water is not on the surface, it's inside.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

This water exists between 250 and 410 miles under the surface in an area called a transition zone, a buffer layer that separates the upper from the lower mantle. Now, if there's water down there, I wonder what else could be down there. Well, in 2019, geologists from Princeton University published a study that surprised everyone.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

This water exists between 250 and 410 miles under the surface in an area called a transition zone, a buffer layer that separates the upper from the lower mantle. Now, if there's water down there, I wonder what else could be down there. Well, in 2019, geologists from Princeton University published a study that surprised everyone.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

They used supercomputers to analyze seismic data from some of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, including the 8.2 magnitude quake that hit Bolivia in 1994. Earthquakes that big reverberate through the entire planet. We may not feel them, but seismographs can detect them.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

They used supercomputers to analyze seismic data from some of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, including the 8.2 magnitude quake that hit Bolivia in 1994. Earthquakes that big reverberate through the entire planet. We may not feel them, but seismographs can detect them.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

Analysis showed that beneath the surface of the Earth are vast plains and mountains taller than the Himalayas, all deep within the Earth. How deep? 410 miles, the same depth as where the water is found, the transition zone. So what about the entrances at the poles? Well, pictures are hard to find, and they're allegedly all altered by NASA, which we know they do.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

Analysis showed that beneath the surface of the Earth are vast plains and mountains taller than the Himalayas, all deep within the Earth. How deep? 410 miles, the same depth as where the water is found, the transition zone. So what about the entrances at the poles? Well, pictures are hard to find, and they're allegedly all altered by NASA, which we know they do.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

But there are a few photos and videos out there of the poles that show something strange. These photos were taken by the S-7 satellite in 1968. In one photograph, the North Pole was covered by clouds. In another photograph, the same area had no clouds, revealing a massive hole where the pole would be. This was taken from the ISS in March of 2015. NASA says that's a typhoon. Fair enough.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

But there are a few photos and videos out there of the poles that show something strange. These photos were taken by the S-7 satellite in 1968. In one photograph, the North Pole was covered by clouds. In another photograph, the same area had no clouds, revealing a massive hole where the pole would be. This was taken from the ISS in March of 2015. NASA says that's a typhoon. Fair enough.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

But in 1987, the Russian space station Mir recorded something at the North Pole that is definitely not a typhoon. What is this? The hollow Earth theory has been around for centuries. At one point in history, it was the mainstream scientific view. But is there really evidence to support the hollow Earth theory? Well, yes and no. Modern Hollow Earth theory always starts with Edmund Halley.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

But in 1987, the Russian space station Mir recorded something at the North Pole that is definitely not a typhoon. What is this? The hollow Earth theory has been around for centuries. At one point in history, it was the mainstream scientific view. But is there really evidence to support the hollow Earth theory? Well, yes and no. Modern Hollow Earth theory always starts with Edmund Halley.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

He's a famous astronomer, which gives the theory some legitimacy. Halley put forth the idea because he couldn't explain why magnetic poles were moving. He figured there were shells inside the Earth that moved independently of each other. And he was almost right. During Halley's time, it wasn't yet known that the Earth's core spins, which creates the magnetic field.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

He's a famous astronomer, which gives the theory some legitimacy. Halley put forth the idea because he couldn't explain why magnetic poles were moving. He figured there were shells inside the Earth that moved independently of each other. And he was almost right. During Halley's time, it wasn't yet known that the Earth's core spins, which creates the magnetic field.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

But he was correct that sections of the inner Earth can move independently of each other, including the core, as we only recently discovered. Mathematician Leonard Euler gets credit for pushing the hollow Earth theory in the 18th century. Now, I'm not sure how he became attached to the theory. There's no evidence he ever said anything about it.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

But he was correct that sections of the inner Earth can move independently of each other, including the core, as we only recently discovered. Mathematician Leonard Euler gets credit for pushing the hollow Earth theory in the 18th century. Now, I'm not sure how he became attached to the theory. There's no evidence he ever said anything about it.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

And the concept of Agartha as a legendary subterranean world was first mentioned in the late 19th century. French occultist and esoteric writer Alexandre Sainte-Yves introduced the idea in a book he published in 1885. And according to his writing, Agartha was a place of ancient wisdom and spiritual enlightenment, but he never found actual hard evidence that it was a real place.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

And the concept of Agartha as a legendary subterranean world was first mentioned in the late 19th century. French occultist and esoteric writer Alexandre Sainte-Yves introduced the idea in a book he published in 1885. And according to his writing, Agartha was a place of ancient wisdom and spiritual enlightenment, but he never found actual hard evidence that it was a real place.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

He actually never looked. The idea caught on with other occultists and theosophists like Madame Blavatsky, but the only evidence they provide of the Hollow Earth comes from visions and telepathic communication. And I'll leave it to you to determine if that's proof enough. Most modern Hollow Earth myths come from the Jules Verne novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries

He actually never looked. The idea caught on with other occultists and theosophists like Madame Blavatsky, but the only evidence they provide of the Hollow Earth comes from visions and telepathic communication. And I'll leave it to you to determine if that's proof enough. Most modern Hollow Earth myths come from the Jules Verne novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth.