Charles Hapgood

I mean, this is like crazy.

This is like the work of Charles Hapgood, who did the book, The Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings.

where he was finding all these ancient maps all around the whole planet.

It must have been much older than anything that was known at the time because they had the coasts of Antarctica and the Americas on it and things like this.

And I think you see a lot of that confirmation bias, whether it's with Hancock or the Tartaria type people, or, uh, you know, suspicious observers to somebody we've talked about on this channel.

Cause he, uh, he's very much the crustal displacement, Charles Hapgood, Chan Thomas type.

Um, it's so nice to sit here and say those things and have you be like, yeah, I know what you're talking about.

I rarely have that.

Which is bad on both sides.

And it's funny because I listened to your whole Hancock podcast yesterday.

And one of the things you don't talk about, which is fine, which I want to bring up, though, is The academic world, like, you know, what are academics like? And in my book, I talk about that because, you know, I absolutely critique not just Hancock, also Charles Hapgood, you know, who wrote about the Puri Raish map and some others, John Anthony West, who kind of, you know, preceded these people.

Right.

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.

But Dunbavin describes imaginary earth-shattering catastrophes, a comet strike triggering a catastrophic pole shift that threw the planet off its axis.

These theories are derived from those of other catastrophist pseudo-historians, like Immanuel Velikovsky, whose theories I discussed in my series The Chronological Revision Chronicles years back, and a contemporary of Velikovsky's A fellow pseudoscientist named Charles Hapgood likewise argued in favor of a catastrophic pole shift, though rather than the trigger being a comet strike, he came up with the idea that polar ice caps just got too heavy, causing, quote, crustal displacement, end quote, which is essentially the idea that the surface of the planet comes loose from its mantle and core and just slides around, causing havoc.

Hapgood's central evidence was the 1513 Ottoman world map known as the Piri Reis map, which features a then-unknown landmass on the bottom that Hapgood claimed was Antarctica but not covered in ice, and he claimed this map was based on some ancient lost maps.

I've spoken of this nonsense before.

I mean, look, ancient aliens talks about this all the time, but back in 1963, nobody was talking about this.

He basically built on this thing by a guy named Charles Hapgood.

It's a thing called the crustal displacement theory.

Now, the theory proposes that the Earth's entire outer shell can slip rapidly over its inner mantle, not in bursts of earthquakes, not slowly over millions of years as continents divide and then come back together.

But there are so many things like that that you realize, like, how did they possibly find a place on Earth that was so perfectly all of these different things at once? And then, you know, all this other...

further kind of implications from its slope angle, from its base perimeter, from its, you know, its perfect orientation to north, which gives us a clue that if the earth had had gone through some of these changes like, uh, in, uh, maps of the ancient sea Kings, Charles Hapgood and, um, Emmanuel Velikovsky, some of these guys who started talking about the earth's crustal shift displacements of the entire crust at once.

Um, you realize the great pyramid must've been built after the last one of those because it's perfectly oriented to the cardinal directions.

Um, So, yeah, it is the center of the world in many cases.

But it gets so much worse.

Then, in the 1950s, 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.

But it gets so much worse.

Then in the 1950s, 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.

He took the map to the cartography experts at the Strategic Air Command in the United States Air Force, and he asked them to help him figure out exactly what the Turkish admiral had drawn.