Charles Hapgood

And he's, so he's looking at, this is where it gets into these, these measurements that he's doing, but he noticed that the, the main like architectural access, access of the city is about 15.4 degrees East of North.

So just a little off and, And he remembers this theory by Charles Hapgood from years earlier, and he's the one that kind of came to me, the American professor.

He said that the Earth's outer crust could shift relative to the planet's rotational axis.

So this, like I said with that toy, kind of just the outside of it shifting.

But this map gets even stranger than that.

In the late 1950s, after the map was discovered in 1929, a history professor at Keene State College named Charles Hapgood took up the map and realized that the bottom of the map actually showed a coastline that would have been completely under ice when Perry restrew it.

The coast that he identified would not have been known to look like this to anyone alive during Columbus's time.

Down here at the bottom of South America, the coast turns sharply east.

But it gets interesting because here is the date that Hapgood puts on it.

He argued that the voyages behind this particular stretch of coast may have been made as recently as 1000 BC, which is right around the time of King Solomon.

If Charles Hapgood is right, Perry Rees had drawn a coastline that was last free of ice 3,000 years ago on a continent nobody would discover for another 300 years, and his sources for it were maps from the time of Alexander the Great.

Working from these ancient maps, Piri Reis drew that coast as it had looked 2,500 years before he was born.

In any case, Colin Wilson took seriously the account of Plato.

Charles Hapgood, and an account that was developed further by Rand Flemeth from Professor Hapgood.

And this was the idea that, and by the way, Albert Einstein endorsed this theory of Charles Hapgood concerning earth crustal displacement.

Basically, the notion is that Over time, the ice accumulating at the top of the Earth creates a kind of gravitational disequilibrium, and the whole crust of the Earth slips over the mantle like the skin of an orange, from the Earth basically being top-heavy with ice.

And it causes the continents to move by several thousand miles.

Totally agree.

But back to the location of Atlantis, because there's a lot here that we can unpack.

So Colin Wilson, coming out of Charles Hapgood's theory, basically makes the point that aside from the fact that you have the ice thicker on the end of Antarctica that would have been at the South Pole for a long time before the last pole shift, you have to look at some of the details of... of Plato's account.

That seems like a very convenient excuse.

Supporters, including Charles Hapgood, Dennis Swift, and later Don Patton, kept returning to the collection because of the dinosaur-like figures, and because they believed controlled excavation could still separate genuinely ancient pieces from anything manufactured more recently.

Hapgood is particularly interesting because he was already famous for Earth's shifting crust and later maps of the ancient sea kings, so he approached Akambaro as part of a much bigger belief that human history contained advanced and forgotten episodes.

The clue Acambaro added was visual memory.

Um,

Well, that actually – for me, I'm – I thought – I kind of got the impression you weren't a Charles Hapgood fan, but like I – Not a

Charles Hapgood fan.

Yeah, but he did have the expanding and contracting earth theory.

Oh, yeah.

Pretty much every catastrophist ever said that that's what happened.

But I still, up until a couple of years ago, had questions about exactly how much it shifts.

Is it, you know, 180 degrees? Is it 90 degrees? Is it Charles Hapgood's just a couple of degrees and then a couple of degrees and then...

And the area of Indonesia and the surrounding area, including Malaysia and also Brunei, the Philippines, a lot of these areas around Indonesia are suitable for that kind of population to flourish.

The first thing is that Charles Hapgood and a couple of his colleagues, I think one was called John White that wrote about this later, they were not any scientists at all.

They were just naturalists.

They weren't true scientists.

Okay, that's something that takes maybe millions of years, but that's a different thing.

But the terrestrial pole shift is a geological and physical impossibility, and it also defies what they're saying in the angular momentum conservation, angular momentum physics as well.

So that is something that a lot of these scientists people like Charles Hapgood and maybe John White and others that have come up with this have now recanted from and moved away from that position because of what we now know regarding plate tectonics.

Did that help answer some of the questions? We've learned about the technology about plate tectonics and about the Earth over the last, let's say, 50 years or so has changed some of this because some people kind of latched on to these things, which, by the way, really wasn't a theory.

Yeah.

But I got a lot more of Charles Hapgood, Emanuel Velikovsky.

Yeah, he did the same thing, you know, so.

Yeah.

Thomas had company.

In 1958, college professor Charles Hapgood published his own crust displacement theory, and it came with a foreword by Albert Einstein, who took seriously the idea that even polar ice might unbalance the crust.

Believers still cite that forward.

Critics point out that plate tectonics confirmed the 1960s replaced the idea Einstein was reacting to.

But it gets so much worse.

Then in the nineteen fifties, a professor named Charles Hapgood got his hands on high-resolution copies of the Piri Reis map.

Hapgood wasn't just a historian.

He was a man obsessed with the shifting of the Earth's crust.

We were not supposed to be masters of spherical trigonometry.

We were not supposed to be mapping the entire globe.

So who drew the source maps that Piri Reis copied? Charles Hapgood called them the ancient sea kings.

He believed that long before the Egyptians stacked the first block of the pyramids, long before Babylon rose from the dust, there was a global, highly advanced seafaring civilization.

So I, I definitely think it's possible that as we go into these higher ages, into closer times around the Golden Age, that we probably have a much greater understanding of natural energy and things that we can, as you said, use stone and crystals and things- That probably store energy a lot more efficiently than we understand now.

The Piri Reis map and the Charles Hapgood and a few other maps that do exist, and they show very accurate topography of our complete, uh, you know, uh, land masses, even in some regards showing what the land masses are under the ice sheet.

And, you know, I don't know of any flying craft in ancient times, not even hot air balloons.

So for ancient man to have these maps, again, you can just Google the Piri Reis map, these things are quite an anomaly because of their complete accurateness, uh, that we know today with our own aerial views and satellite, satellite imagery.